By Dion Hinchcliffe on June 14, 2016
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.
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged collaboration, ibm, Social network
By R "Ray" Wang on June 6, 2016
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 […]
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By Phil Fersht on March 15, 2016
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 […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged #Crazymergerideas, Analytics and Big Data, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Cognitive Computing, Enterprise Irregulars, Finance & Accounting BPO, HfSResearch.com Homepage, ibm, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, Phil Fersht, Robotic Process Automation, Security and Risk, Sourcing Change Management, The As-a-Service Economy
By Tom Raftery on February 2, 2016
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 […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, Cloud Computing, ibm, Internet of Things, IoT, Watson, watson IoT cloud
By Michael Coté on January 4, 2016
So here we are, as of this writing a good twenty-nine years after the “hatchet job,” and Kodak has declared bankruptcy. The once-humming factories are literally being blown up, and the company’s brand, which Interbrand had valued at $14.8 billion in 2001, fell off its list of the top one hundred brands in 2008, with […]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged ibm, Kodak, strategy, Tech Industry
By Phil Fersht on October 19, 2015
Anyone who knows me well has seen how hard we’ve been pressing the importance of security and trust in a global services delivery environment, since we founded HfS. In short, we’re moving into a world where reactive fixes to security breaches is a sure-fire recipe for disaster. Savvy enterprises simply have to deploy proactive, holistic […]
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By Phil Fersht on October 5, 2015
The silicon valley giants are not satisfied with embedding themselves into your phones and laptops – now they are looking to connect up our cars, bank accounts, air conditioning systems, washing machines, even our hair dryers (OK, maybe not hairdryers just yet)… They want to manage data tied to your whole life, not just your computing […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Accenture, Analytics and Big Data, Atos, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Charles Sutherland, cognizant, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Irregulars, Harman, HfS Blueprint Results, HfSResearch.com Homepage, ibm, Infosys, Internet of Things, IoT, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, TCS, Tech Mahindra, The As-a-Service Economy, The Internet of Things
By Phil Fersht on September 30, 2015
Just when you thought IBM’s Global Business Services was cratering into an As-a-Sleep state, having sold-off its call center business exactly two years’ ago, Big Blue’s next-gen services star is once again shining, with the acquisition of one of the finest up-and-coming specialist Workday services firms in the market: Meteorix. Every HR head wants a Workday rollout… and […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged #wdayrising, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Enterprise Irregulars, HfSResearch.com Homepage, HR Outsourcing, HR Strategy, IaaS and BPaaS, ibm, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Meteorix, PaaS, SaaS, Talent in Sourcing, The As-a-Service Economy, workday
By James Governor on July 17, 2015
Containers + Private Cloud. Google Sponsors OpenStack Foundation Google bringing container expertise to OpenStack Having published this post earlier – IBM Cloud: it’s the infrastructure, stupid, which made the argument that OpenStack may not be hipster, but will see enterprise […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged google, ibm, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Platform as a service, VMware |
By Dion Hinchcliffe on June 29, 2015
A significant issue has been developing in digital collaboration for the last several years, and it’s now starting to become somewhat acute. I’m referring here to the pronounced trend towards app, environment, and channel fragmentation. Over the last few of years, I have been speaking with beleaguered IT managers who are struggling to cope with […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged aaron levie, Analysis, Box, Cloud Computing, CoIT, Content management, ibm, social collaboration, Social Media, Social Technology & Standards, strategy, The Enterprise, The Future of Work |
