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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 Dion Hinchcliffe on February 5, 2010
There’s been some useful discussion recently about using the app store model for distributing enterprise software and services within organizations. Up until now, most IT needs in the majority of businesses have been met largely through one-size-fits-all delivery of solutions…
Posted in Software | Tagged App Store, Business, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, infotech, mashups, Open APIs, Open Business Models, open supply chains, SaaS, smbs, SOA, strategy, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA)
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, R "Ray" Wang;, SaaS, security, skill shifts, software as a service, Sourcing, user strategy, vendor management, workplace dynamics
By Dion Hinchcliffe on January 12, 2010
It almost a truism that cultural and organizational factors — these include politics, information silos, “tribal” interests, and effective change management — generally determine the success or failure of a major IT initiative in most organizations today. While “big bang” strategic projects and infrastructure upgrades are notoriously fraught with peril, particularly when it comes to [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged adoption, API, Collective intelligence, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Computing, Governance, Industry Trends, ISO 20000, Organizational culture, people, process, Project failures, Service-oriented architecture, SOA, SOA Governance, Social, social computing, technology, TOGAF 9, Val IT
By R "Ray" Wang on December 22, 2009
Keep In Mind Basic Rules Still Apply Regardless Of Deployment Option
The proliferation of SaaS solutions provides organizations with a myriad of sorely needed point and disruptive solutions. Good news – business users can rapidly procure and deploy, while innovating with minimal budget and IT team constraints. Bad news – users must depend more on their [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged 2010, Apps Strategy, archiving, best of breed, boomi, Business process, business process transformation, business requirements, CastIron, Cloud Computing, customer bill of rights, customer data integration, data governance, data integration, disruptive, disruptive technologies, EMC, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Business Apps, enterprise software, Enterprise Software Licensee Bill of Rights, Epicor, Epicor 9, erp, EscrowTech, google, Google Apps Engine, hybrid, ibm, IBM Blue Cloud, IBM Optim, Infor, Infor Global Solutions GmbH, Informatica, InnovaSafe, innovation, integration, iron mountain, Lawson, Lawson Software, line of business, market strategy, market trends, master data management, mdm, Microsoft Azure, NCC Group, netsuite, OpSource, oracle, PaaS, pervasive, Pervasive Software, Platform as a service, R "Ray" Wang;, RainStor, SaaS, SaaS Bill of Rights, SaaS escrow, SaaS Integration, SaaS strategies, salesforce.com, sap, SnapLogic, software as a service, software bill of rights, software escrow, Storage, Tuesday's Tip, Uncategorized, User Experience, workday, zoho
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 Software | Tagged Architecture, Business, Cloud Computing, Compliance, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Computing, esb, Governance, Industry Trends, integration, mashups, Open source, SOA, Software, strategy, Web services
By Dion Hinchcliffe on November 23, 2009
The data that our businesses own has become the name of the game when it comes to what ultimately lies at the core of economic value today, now seemingly more than ever before.
We appear to be entering the era of the knowledge economy, where most of what we do in business (about 50% of where [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Cloud Computing, Crowdsourcing, data, data sharing, data-centricity, databases, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, information power, information sharing, integration, master data management, mdm, Open APIs, Open Business Models, open innovation, SOA, social computing, Web 2.0, web api
By Sandy Kemsley on October 5, 2009
Bill Rosser presented a decision framework for identifying when to use BPA (business process analysis), EA (enterprise architecture) and BPM modeling tools for modeling processes: all of them can model processes, but which should be used when?
It’s first necessary to understand why you’re modeling your processes, and the requirements for the model: these could be [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business process, Business process automation, Business process management, Enterprise architecture, workflow
