Enable them and they will build it!
For awhile now we’ve heard that companies, especially large ones need to enable and empower their employees to be thought leaders, innovators and of course inventors! However, how does one really go about enabling them? Or rather more specifically from … Read More →
IBM buys itself a cloud integration toolbox
IBM bought Cast Iron Systems because it simply had nothing in its huge Websphere toolbox that could do cloud integration. I just heard the company’s SVP of its software group Steve Mills admit this in today’s IBM press briefing, talking about the acquisition. While IBM has a massive catalog of technologies for integrating applications within [...]
How SaaS Helps Enterprises Effect Change
Listen to my conversation with Eric Berridge, CEO of Bluewolf, one of the pioneers of a new generation of professional services companies that specialize in software-as-a-service and cloud computing. In this podcast, learn what attracts large enterprises to SaaS, and find out why adopting SaaS can help change the culture of an organization and effect [...]
Why Microsoft and Intuit need each other’s clouds
Today’s announcement that Microsoft and Intuit are to marry up their cloud platforms with a software development kit makes perfect sense to me. Some of my ZDNet colleagues have been less impressed — Dennis Howlett calls it more PaaS to put in your aaS environment while Mary Jo Foley says it’s to shore up Redmond’s [...]
Next-Gen Business Teams Make Sense of Google Wave
Driven by the spread of the Web and advances in Web capabilities over the past ten years, a new way of working in distributed teams has become commonplace for a broad range of project-based activities. In media and advertising, software development, construction, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing product design and financial services, it’s now routine to bring together [...]
People-centric IT for a new decade
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 [...]
