Is IBM Getting Out of Enterprise Performance Management?
I noticed that IBM sold off several EPM products — IBM Cognos Disclosure Management (CDM), IBM Cognos Financial Statement Reporting (FSR), and IBM Clarity 7 products — to a company called Certent. This, combined with a pretty weak performance in Gartner’s recent financial and strategic CPM magic quadrants — where IBM landed as Visionary and […]
Spring Boot and the Peloton
So Spring Boot goes from strength to strength. At RedMonk we’re pretty sceptical of downloads an an indicator of technology attention or adoption – in the age of automated builds, pulling down system images, they can be rather deceptive. But there are some other metrics to consider. In looking at the GitHub landscape for Java […]
Kubernetes for On Prem Simplicity – Download and Go
I recently attended an IBM update on its analytics business. One of the core themes was simplicity. As we all know enterprise products generally, and IBM products specifically, are not known for their ease of use. So when I heard that IBM middleware had a new approach – dubbed Download and Go – so […]
So what even is a Service Mesh? Hot take on Istio and Linkerd
Remember that time, when we used to blithely use Docker and microservices interchangeably? Docker has proved to be excellent in simplifying dev and test workflows, while Kubernetes has emerged as a strong alternative center of gravity for deployment of container-based apps. But it’s still early days in terms of production deployment of container based […]
Trends: Five Data Center Trends For 2017
2017 Trends Reflect Faster, Better, Cheaper, Safer, Mantra Of Hyperscale Source: Google As clients make a shift from on-premises traditional data centers to the cloud, mega vendors will rush to build out their hyperscale data centers. Hyperscale data centers use nodes to flex up and flex down on compute power, storage, networking, and memory […]
Microsoft Teams and Slack point to the future of collaboration
Microsoft responded to the incredible rise of Slack, the cool “new kid on the block” inter office chat app, with Teams. I watched the live stream of the announcement and was surprised. I expected a Slack alternative, a “Slack killer” even, but what they’ve announced is much more significant. Teams and Slack together signpost the […]
Exploring IBM’s vision for enterprise collaboration
The company that first brought the industry the then-breakthrough technology of groupware in the 1990s is now moving towards cognitive collaboration for differentiation, says IBM’s new head of product management for collaboration, Ed Brill, as he grapples with the company’s many offerings in the space.
News Analysis: Acquisition Brings Salesforce Customers To The Commerce Party
Salesforce Announces Intent To Acquire Demandware For $2.8B On June 1st, 2016, Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to acquire Burlington, Massachusetts based Demandware for $75.o0 per share or around $2.8 billion in cash. Constellation predicts a $10.01B market for matrix commerce solutions as new digital platforms and network economies emerge. Constellation’s quick merger analysis […]
Would a Big Blue Prism create an Intelligent Automation monster?
A momentous event occurred in the world of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) today, when its pioneering vendor, Blue Prism, became the first pureplay RPA vendor to announce officially its intention to IPO. Naturally, this sparked some feverish debate among the RPA cognerati over whether we may see one of the established services firms make a […]
IBM acquires Weather.com for Cloud, AI (aaS), and IoT
IBM has announced the completion of the acquisition The Weather Company’s B2B, mobile and cloud-based web-properties, weather.com, Weather Underground, The Weather Company brand and WSI, its global business-to-business brand. At first blush this may not seem like an obvious pairing, but the Weather Company’s products are not just their free apps for your smartphone, they […]
