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By Dion Hinchcliffe on July 26, 2011
How do the overarching digital strategies of today’s 21st century enterprise relate to social business and smart mobility? It’s a question I’ve been asked more and more frequently as these two major new trends become primary areas of focus in organizations around the world. The reality is today that large organizations continue to struggle with [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged android, applications, Architecture, Blog Post, Business Models, CEO, CIO, CMO, collaboration, communication, Community, crm, Crowdsourcing, digital, Digital Strategy, Enablement, Facebook, internet, iOS, marketing, mobility, planning, sales, social business, Social CRM, strategy, Supply Chains, technology, Web |
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 Phil Wainewright on April 27, 2010
Salesforce.com, creator of the archetypal proprietary cloud platform, today seized the initiative and redrew the entire PaaS landscape around open-source software stacks.
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Architecture, force.com, Java, microsoft, Platform as a service, salesforce.com, SpringSource, vmforce, VMware |
By Phil Wainewright on April 14, 2010
Throughout a 20-minute customer presentation at yesterday’s UK launch of Workday, I was intrigued to hear not a single mention of the word SaaS — or even cloud computing. Johnson Odesoh, group IT strategy and architecture director of Aviva, explained why the insurance and financial services giant has chosen to standardize globally on Workday as [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Architecture, Cloud Computing, E-Commerce, europe, HRM, netsuite, SaaS, software as a service, workday |
By R "Ray" Wang on March 23, 2010
Confusion Continues With Cloud Computing And SaaS Definitions Coincidence or just brilliance must be in the air as three esteemed industry colleagues, Phil Wainewright, Michael Cote, and James Governor, have both decided to clarify definitions on SaaS and Cloud within a few days of each other. In fact, this couldn’t be more timely as SaaS [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Apps Strategy, Architecture, Cloud Computing, Cloud options, code modification, configuration, Consumption, creation, customization, DaaS, development as a service, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise software, hosting, iaas, Infrastructure, Infrastructure as a service, James Governor, maintenance, michael cote, next gen cio, next gen IT leaders, NextGen, orchestration, PaaS, phil wainewright, Platform as a service, product lifecycle, SaaS, server virtualized, software appliances, software as a service, software ownership, software version, SoftwareInsider, tenancy, True SaaS, Tuesday's Tip, upgrades, vendor costs |
By Phil Wainewright on March 18, 2010
To dispel some of the confusion about security and to help people evaluating whether to go multi-tenant, here is a quick overview of the main risks.
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Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Architecture, Cloud Computing, gartner, multitenancy, security, software as a service, Utility computing, Virtual Machine |
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 |
By Phil Wainewright on January 5, 2010
Continuing my review of emerging trends that are going to be big in 2010, here’s one that I suspect will be a defining theme for IT throughout the coming decade. In one of my favorite postings of 2009 back in September, I called this trend The democratization of IT. Developing those thoughts over the past [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Architecture, Business applications, collaboration, Computing, Development, Enterprise 2.0, enterprise software, Information technology, Management, Service-oriented architecture, SOA, social computing, strategy, Technology / Software, Web 2.0, Web services |
By Dion Hinchcliffe on December 11, 2009
It’s a truism that you don’t have to buy software to deliver on SOA, which is primarily a style of technical architecture and business strategy and isn’t really something you can go out and purchase. But it’s also true that…
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Architecture, Business, Cloud Computing, Compliance, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Computing, esb, Governance, Industry Trends, integration, mashups, Open source, SOA, strategy, Technology / Software, Web services |
By Phil Wainewright on December 9, 2009
I settled in for one of Marc Benioff’s legendary two-hour-long CloudForce keynotes in London yesterday morning (an abridged, snappier version of the nigh-on-three hour marathon delegates sat through at last month’s DreamForce, Benioff had assured me beforehand). As I listened, I thought about the role of multi-tenancy in cloud computing. The keynote hall was full [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Architecture, Marc Benioff, multi-tenancy, On Demand, Platform as a service, salesforce.com, software as a service, Utility computing |
