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By R "Ray" Wang on December 3, 2011
Welcome to an on-going series of interviews with the people behind the technologies in Cloud Computing. The interviews provide insightful points of view from a customer, industry, and vendor perspective. A full list of interviewees can be found here. Rick Nucci – Co-Founder & CTO, Dell Boomi Biography Rick is the founder and CTO of [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on June 20, 2011
Different Flavors Of Real-Time Result In Significant Implications. Many pundits, research insight folks, bloggers, and hand wavers keep talking about the need for real time in social business, analytics, mobile, and other disruptive technologies. Given the volume of data, bandwidth constraints, and magnitude of business processes to be supported, is the notion of real time [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged application development, Apps Strategy, Big Data, Business Analytics, business value, CIO, Cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud integration, collaboration, collaboration software, Consumer Tech, crm, custom apps, customer engagement, Customer Relationship Management, customer relationship management (CRM), Design thinking, early adopters, Emerging Technologies, Engagement Apps, Enterprise 2.0, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Business Apps, enterprise strategy, mobile, mobile enterprise, Monday's Musings, Monday’s Musings, next gen, next gen apps, next gen enterprise, next generation, Next generation apps, R "Ray" Wang;, R “Ray” Wang;, rwang0, social analytics, social business, Social Business Software, Social CRM, Social Enterprise, social enterprise apps, social technologies, SoftwareInsider |
By R "Ray" Wang on December 8, 2010
Acquisition of Heroku In Line With Platform Future of Salesforce.com At Marc Benioff’s keynote, the CEO reiterated his commitment to 6 clouds: Sales, Service, Data (Jigsaw), Collaboration (Chatter), Cloud Platform (Force.com), and Database (database.com). As Salesforce.com continues to diversify its portfolio into adjacent markets, the platform as a service (PaaS) component remains a key area [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged acquisition, acquisitions, application development, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud Wars, crm, df10, heroku, Marc Benioff, mergers, Mergers And Acquisitions, News Analysis, PaaS, Platform as a service, R "Ray" Wang;, R “Ray” Wang;, rwang0, SaaS, salesforce.com |
By R "Ray" Wang on October 28, 2010
Microsoft Bolsters Developer Tools To Inspire Innovation At the October 28th, 2010 Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, CEO Steve Ballmer presided over 3 key announcements that affirm the software giant’s ambitions to retain and grow the mind share and market share of worldwide developers. In fact the 3 main announcements foreshadow Microsoft’s convergence in the five [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged application development, Cloud, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, event report, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Windows Phone 7, R "Ray" Wang;, R “Ray” Wang;, rwang0, Software Insider, software trends, SoftwareInsider, vendor events, vendor strategy |
By R "Ray" Wang on October 11, 2010
Collaboration Puts Java In A Safe Place On October 11th, 2010, both Oracle and IBM announced an alliance to collaborate on the future development of Java. A quick assessment shows that: Oracle and IBM intend to drive Java innovations. Oracle initiated a call to IBM to discuss collaboration efforts around Java. As a result, Oracle [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged application development, ibm, Java, Java Development Kit, News Analysis, OpenJDK, oracle, Sun, Sun Microsystems |
By R "Ray" Wang on August 30, 2010
Upcoming Data Deluge Threatens The Effectiveness Of Activity Streams Activity streams, best popularized by consumer apps such as Facebook and Twitter, have emerged as the Web 2.0 visualization paradigm that addresses the massive flows of information users face (see Figure 1). As a key element of the dynamic user experiences discussed in the 10 elements [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged activity streams, application development, Architecture, Data deluge, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise 2.0, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise collaboration, enterprise software, Facebook, Monday's Musings, Monday’s Musings, next gen, next gen apps, next gen enterprise, next generation, Next generation apps, Point of view, product road maps, Social Business Software, Social Enterprise, social enterprise apps, social technologies, Software Insider, software trends, SoftwareInsider, usability, User Experience, user interaction, vendor strategy, Web 2.0 |
By Merv Adrian on July 12, 2010
IBM employs 45,000 software engineers worldwide, and like all large firms, has been greatly expanding its overseas contingent, leading some in the US to complain that not enough is being done “back home.” In mid-June, IBM provided an answer with the opening of a new lab facility in the Boston suburb of Littleton, Massachusetts, one [...]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged analytics, application development, BAO, cognos, CoreMetrics, Eclipse, ibm, Industry Trends, lab, Lombardi, Lotus, Rational, sterling commerce, tivoli, Websphere |
By R "Ray" Wang on June 6, 2010
Clients Now See Microsoft As The Neutral Vendor, Hence All The Questions
Just less than 3 years ago, Microsoft was still perceived as part of the “evil” empire. Business leaders worried about the complicated and expensive licensing and pricing structures. IT leaders bemoaned the lock-in and proprietary and often buggy software. But in a reversal [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged application development, Apps Strategy, Azure, Cloud, Cloud Computing, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise architecture, enterprise software, event report, ibm, Internet Explorer, JBoss, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Silverlight, middleware, next gen cio, next gen CIO's, next gen IT leaders, oracle, salesforce.com, sap, SQL Server, STB Analyst Summit, TechEd, technology platforms, tools and technology, UC, Unified Communications, vmforce, VMware, W3C, windows mobile, Windows Phone 7 |
By R "Ray" Wang on April 29, 2010
VMWare and Salesforce.com Battle For The Hearts And Minds Of Cloud-Oriented Java Developers On April 27th, 2010, Salesforce.com, [NYSE: CRM] and VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) formed VMforce, a strategic alliance to create a deployment environment for Java based apps in the cloud. The Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering builds on Java, Spring, VMware vSphere, and Force.com. Key [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Alliances, application development, Apps Strategy, Azure, BEA WebLogic, bill of rights, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud Wars, crm, customer bill of rights, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, Gigaspaces, google, Gridgain, ibm, IBM WebSphere, Imaginea, Java, Java PaaS, LongJump, microsoft, Microsoft.NET, oracle, Oracle Fusion Middleware, PaaS, Platform as a service, Rackspace Cloud Tools, SaaS, salesforce.com, SAP NetWeaver, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, Spring Source, vendor strategy, vmforce, VMW, VMware |
By R "Ray" Wang on January 18, 2010
The Era Of CIO Dictatorships Ends With 2009
Less than 5 years ago, the mighty CIO controlled his or her organization’s destiny by shepherding multi-million dollar projects and ruling with a fist. Business leaders had to pay homage to the IT team and they hated it. The economic crisis, advent of the cloud and SaaS, and [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2010, application development, Architecture, business drivers, Business Models, Business process, change, CIO, Cloud Computing, disruptive, disruptive technologies, enteprise architecture, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Business Apps, enterprise software, future of business, information management, Infrastructure, macro conditions, next gen cio, pace of technology adoption, procurement, project management, SaaS, security, skill shifts, software as a service, Sourcing, user strategy, vendor management, workplace dynamics |