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Microsoft Plays Where’s Waldo? With BI – Good Idea

Microsoft Plays Where’s Waldo? With BI – Good Idea

By Merv Adrian on June 10, 2010

In April, I was critical of the BI messaging I heard from Microsoft – as told, it was long on benefit adjectives and short on architectural clarity. But things have changed since then, and the Combined Tech Ed/Business Intelligence Conference made that very clear. Do I see more clarity because I now know more of […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Azure, BI, BIDS, BizTalk, business intelligence, Business Intelligence Development Studio, Data mining, DMX, drm, excel, Forefront, ibm, Industry Trends, IT, master data management, master data services, MDS, microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics, MIcrosoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Silverlight, Office, OLAP, oracle, Performance Point, PMML, predictive analytics, Reporting Services, SAP BW, SAS, sharepoint, silverlight, spss, SQL Server, SQL Server Analysis Services, SQL Server Integration Services, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, T-SQL, Teradata, TSQL, Windows Server

Event Report: Top 10 Questions To Ask At The Microsoft TechEd/STB Analyst Summit

Event Report: Top 10 Questions To Ask At The Microsoft TechEd/STB Analyst Summit

By R "Ray" Wang on June 6, 2010

Clients Now See Microsoft As The Neutral Vendor, Hence All The Questions
Just less than 3 years ago, Microsoft was still perceived as part of the “evil” empire.  Business leaders worried about the complicated and expensive licensing and pricing structures.  IT leaders bemoaned the lock-in and proprietary and often buggy software.  But in a reversal […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged application development, Apps Strategy, Azure, Cloud, Cloud Computing, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise architecture, enterprise software, event report, ibm, Internet Explorer, JBoss, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Silverlight, middleware, next gen cio, next gen CIO's, next gen IT leaders, oracle, salesforce.com, sap, SQL Server, STB Analyst Summit, TechEd, technology platforms, tools and technology, UC, Unified Communications, vmforce, VMware, W3C, windows mobile, Windows Phone 7 | 1 Response

News Analysis: Salesforce.com and VMware Up The Ante In The Cloud Wars With VMforce

News Analysis: Salesforce.com and VMware Up The Ante In The Cloud Wars With VMforce

By R "Ray" Wang on April 29, 2010

VMWare and Salesforce.com Battle For The Hearts And Minds Of Cloud-Oriented Java Developers On April 27th, 2010, Salesforce.com, [NYSE: CRM] and VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) formed VMforce, a strategic alliance to create a deployment environment for Java based apps in the cloud.  The Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering builds on Java, Spring, VMware vSphere, and Force.com.  Key […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Alliances, application development, Apps Strategy, Azure, BEA WebLogic, bill of rights, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud Wars, CRM, customer bill of rights, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, Gigaspaces, google, Gridgain, ibm, IBM WebSphere, Imaginea, Java, Java PaaS, LongJump, microsoft, Microsoft.NET, oracle, Oracle Fusion Middleware, PaaS, Platform as a service, Rackspace Cloud Tools, SaaS, salesforce.com, SAP NetWeaver, Spring Source, vendor strategy, vmforce, VMW, VMware | 1 Response

Just how green is cloud computing?

Just how green is cloud computing?

By Tom Raftery on April 27, 2010

Cloud computing may not be as Green as you think. I mentioned previously that I gave a keynote presentation at the Green IT Summit in Dublin last week. In the question and answers session after the talk, Sean Baker asked about cloud computing and whether I thought companies using cloud computing weren’t simply outsourcing their […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon, app engine, Azure, canonical, Cloud Computing, EC2, elastic cloud compute, Energy, energy efficiency, google, green, ibm, microsoft, salesforce, sean baker, Simon Wardley, Sustainability | 1 Response

Why Microsoft and Intuit need each other's clouds

Why Microsoft and Intuit need each other’s clouds

By Phil Wainewright on January 20, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Azure, Cloud Computing, Development, ecosystems, integration, Intuit, Intuit Partner Platform, microsoft, Platform as a service, Service level management

Windows Azure and the many faces of cloud

Windows Azure and the many faces of cloud

By Phil Wainewright on December 7, 2009

One of the reasons it’s so difficult to satisfactorily define cloud computing is that people have many different needs and expectations from a cloud platform. To start a conversation about cloud — especially one that seeks to evaluate the relative merits of competing cloud platforms — without first identifying what needs are being met is […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Azure, Cloud Computing, microsoft, Platform as a service, software as a service, Utility computing, Windows Azure

New version of Eye on Earth site – more data, less visible!

New version of Eye on Earth site – more data, less visible!

By Tom Raftery on December 1, 2009

Photo credit Tom Raftery
We last wrote about the Eye on Earth site in July 2008. If you can’t remember that far back, a quick recap – Microsoft and the European Environmental Agency (EEA) signed a non-exclusive five year deal with a goal to “make environmental information more accessible to citizens in Europe”.
EyeOnEarth, the […]

Posted in Business | Tagged airwatch, augmented reality, Azure, eea, european environmental agency, eye on earth, eyeonearth, layar, microsoft, pollution, waterwatch | 1 Response

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