Why Microservices Will Become a Core Business Strategy for Most Organizations
As an industry, we have collectively returned to that eternal debate about what constitutes a largely technical evolution versus when an important digital idea becomes a full-blown business trend. This has happened before with Web sites, e-commerce, mobile applications, social media, and other well-known advances. It can be hard to remember that at first these […]
Endings and Beginnings
Almost ten years ago I did a slight career course change and moved from senior roles inside software companies to software market analyst. In that nearly ten years with analyst firm IDC, leading what has grown into a broad team of highly respected software market analysts, I have grown professionally and personally. For the first […]
Some Non-Predictions for 2015
It’s that time of new year when you get deluged with analysts / bloggers predictions and prognostications. I join in most years, and of course there’s the IDC predictions process to contend with as well. This year I swore that I was skipping it. I’ve already done the new IDC “Futurescape” document and webcast with my […]
A Brief History Of Salesforce1
If I hear one more person tell me that Salesforce1 (S1) is a client-side app, a mobile client, the culmination of Touch (remember that launch? Not many do) or something similar I will scream (like I did the past few days).
Componentizing Software
There’s a lot of pressure for change in the world of enterprise software, and many would argue that it’s much needed change. The growing availability of everything “as-a-service” is changing the way companies buy and consume software. In fact the Internet has impacted the way almost everything is distributed in some way. The more everything […]
The Social Revolution Has Just Begun
Depending on whom you ask, 2011 was either the year of the iPad or the year of social. The truth is that they were and are equally weighted because they are catalysts for each other, and while each can exist without the other, imagining such a thing is like trying to imagine a world where […]
The Next Generation Enterprise Platform
Now that I’ve had a a few weeks since Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference to think more about Salesforce’s new positioning around social enterprise I’m starting to put something together around enterprise platforms that hadn’t occurred to me. Taking some of the…
Integration Made Easier: Workday Announces A Cloud Integration Platform
Yesterday Workday announced that it is opening up its integration platform for customer and partner use. The platform, built off of technology that Workday acquired when it bought Cape Clear, provides a set of cloud based tools to build, deploy, run and manage custom integrations. Integration between applications has traditionally been a complex and expensive […]
Shrinking Balls
In my last post, I wrote about the sentiment analysis of the Super Bowl and how brands are impacted by the real-time stream. That stream stimulates a Mean Girls phenomenon that causes people to be more passionate and start to bully as they become more popular. I know some analysts…
Product or Platform?
Just read this lengthy discussion of the dynamics of the ‘war’ between WordPress and Movable Type for the hearts and minds of bloggers – written by a former Movable Type product manager (and current partner) but in a very evenhanded fashion. There’s a great deal of information here and I recommend reading the entire post, […]
