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By Sandy Kemsley on March 16, 2010
Today, IBM announced their cloud strategy and roadmap; I was at the analyst update last week and had a chance to hear about it first-hand from IBM execs, a customer and a partner.
Erich Clementi, who heads enterprise initiatives at IBM, started the briefing by showing their cloud evolution over the past year, and plans for [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged Cloud, Cloud Computing, ibm, LotusLive, social software
By Brad Feld on March 15, 2010
Not long after I posted about Dave Jilk’s experience with the Pogoplug, he started using the phrase “Pogoplug Simple” to describe one of the goals of Standing Cloud. The idea is that technology products should be so easy to set up and use that the experience is vaguely unsatisfying – you feel like you didn’t [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged Cloud, Cloud Computing, Foundry Group, Open source, pogoplug, standing cloud
By Phil Wainewright on March 2, 2010
Having read (hat-tip Dennis Howlett) Randy Bias’ article at Kendallsquare on Debunking the “No Such Thing as a Private Cloud” Myth I have to say — rather like the apocryphal Irish direction-giver — if I’d wanted to make a case for private cloud, I wouldn’t have started from there. Randy and I joined a civilized [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, IT Outsourcing, On Demand, Platform as a service, Private Clouds, San Francisco, Utility computing
By Jason Busch on February 25, 2010
Today, we’ll continue our analysis of whether Coupa’s claims against Ariba hold up under scrutiny, taking an objective look at marketing versus reality. Let’s begin with the core buying process. When it comes to requisitioning, Coupa claims an “Amazo…
Posted in Business | Tagged Amazon Web Services, AMR Research, Ariba, Cloud Computing, Coupa, iPhone, procurement, Spend Management, Web service
By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 23, 2010
As organizations take a close hard look at cloud computing and how it can help them with their businesses, some are coming away unimpressed by the maturity or with concerns about risk, control, and privacy. Yet others are beginning to…
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business Models, Cloud Computing, Crowdsourcing, databases, digital business models, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, innovation, mashups, Open APIs, Open Business Models, Open Data, open supply chains, SOA, strategy
By Sandy Kemsley on February 18, 2010
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I’ve spoken with a lot of cloud-based BPM vendors over the past few years, and I inevitably ask where their services are hosted. Since almost all of these are American companies, or are primarily targeting the American market, the answer is, almost inevitably, in the United States. I continue to point out that [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged BPM, Business process management, Canada, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Law, Privacy, United States
By R "Ray" Wang on February 17, 2010
Chatter represents both a collaboration application and platform
Announced at the 2009 Dreamforce conference in November, Chatter represents both a collaboration application and platform. Software built on the Force.com platform will gain the collaboration capabilities. Solutions in AppExchange will be able to use profiles, real time streams, and other API’s. Some key features include:
Aggregating streams [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged AppExchange, Apps Strategy, beta, Business 2.0, chatter, Cloud, Cloud Computing, collaboration, collaboration software, Enterprise 2.0, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise software, Facebook, google, Google Wave, ibm, Linked In, Marc Benioff, Microsoft Outlook Social Connector, News Analysis, office productivity, Project Vulcan, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, SaaS, SaaS Bill of Rights, SaaS offensive, SaaS strategies, salesforce.com, SoftwareInsider, user strategy, vendor strategy
By David Terrar on February 12, 2010
Over on AccountingWEB’s forums (you need an AWEB account to log in, but it’s free) there have been some heavy exchanges discussing the barriers to adoption of Cloud solutions by accountants in practice in the UK. I found it interesting, but sadly the dialogue has been too vendor driven, with plenty of verbiage from the [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged Accounting & Finance, Cloud Computing, CloudAve, collaboration, enterprise, General Business, Groupware, On Demand, PBWorks, SaaS, Wiki, Wikipedia, Wikis, Xero
