Putting some English on the Enterprise
CloudBlog caught up with Phil Wainewright, a leading pundit on all things cloud, in London during Cloudforce. I caution that during the video, it appears that Phil has gone into witness protection as the video camera and videographer grapple with a dynamic London dusk. That’s one area of cloud that…
IBM Takes the CDI/EMPI Initiative with its Initiate Acquisition
Earlier today, IBM announced it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Initiate Systems, a provider of customer data integration (CDI) and enterprise master patient index (EMPI) technology. According to the company press release, IBM describes Initiate as “a market leader in data integrity software for information sharing among healthcare and government organizations. Initiate’s software […]
If it Swims Like a Duck and Quacks Like a Duck, then it Probably is a Duck. The Anti-SAP Duck.
Two SAP-related conferences will run literally next door to each other in Boston next week. One, which I am attending is the SAP Influencer Summit where analysts and the media get to meet SAP execs – the other is what some of us quickly dubbed the Anti-SAP Conference. The Sapience conference is focused on “Alternatives […]
Glory Days Still to Come for IT, Depending on How You Define IT (Or the Perils of Sector Analysis and Listening to Tom Siebel)
Randall Stross tried to write an interested column in the Sunday New York Times about a real problem — the declining growth of IT spending — but missed an important point. Two, really. The first is that he makes the common, business page mistake of lumping ALL spending related to technology and business into a […]
