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 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 Dion Hinchcliffe on January 7, 2010
The reality of cloud computing as it exists today already offers significant potential to IT departments that want to cut costs, lighten their infrastructure footprint, and adopt agile new technologies. Whether it’s private clouds or public ones, all signs point towards it being one of the top new approaches for enterprise IT for 2010.
It’s also [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Cloud Computing, Customer Self-Service, E-Commerce, Enterprise Web 2.0, Governance, mashups, SaaS, Service-oriented architecture, SOA, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web as Platform, ZDNet
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, Software, strategy, Web 2.0, Web services
By Michael Krigsman on December 18, 2009
Recent discussions have brought attention to the important and evolving role of governance in the world of service-oriented architecture (SOA). These issues are highly relevant to anyone who wants to understand deeper levels of social computing.
Posted in Software | Tagged CIO issues, Governance, interview, IT issues, PaaS, Podcast, SaaS, Service-oriented architecture, SOA
By Michael Krigsman on December 17, 2009
Although geeky eggheads may become enamored by cool technology, real users care about solving practical, day-to-day business problems. We call that adoption.
Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged CIO issues, Cultural issues, Enterprise 2.0, Failure 2.0, Governance, IT issues, PaaS, project management, SaaS, Service-oriented architecture, SOA, Social Enterprise
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 Prashanth Rai on December 9, 2009
During the last couple of days at the SAP Influencer Summit, There were a lot of interesting discussions / sessions. I will post about them over the next couple of days. To start off, I wanted to just list out…
Posted in Business | Tagged enterprise software, innovation, smb, SOA, Web/Tech
By Michael Krigsman on December 9, 2009
A battle sometimes rages between adherents of on-premise and on-demand enterprise applications. View a video presenting one-side of this debate.
Posted in Software | Tagged and SOA, CIO issues, IT issues, on-premise software, PaaS, SOA
