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Keynoting at CloudSlam '10
Just a quick note to say that I'm honoured to have been asked to
provide a keynote presentation at the upcoming CloudSlam 10 virtual conference
being held from March 23-25.
My presentation is scheduled for 11am ET / 8am PT on March 23rd...
MWD Advisors | By: Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors | 9th March '10
What is Social Media Management, and Why Should You Care?
What is Social Media Management?
As described in the column What
is Social Networking, and Why Should You Care?,
Internet-based social media make it easier for people to listen,
interact, engage and collaborate with each other. But, as...
Laurie McCabe | By: Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates | 9th March '10
Can Novell thrive by being a jack of all trades?
Any business likes to claim to be number one at something; the
biggest pet-shop in town, the largest office productivity
application provider globally, the only telco that provides both
mobile and broadband in your area.
To this end...
Quocirca | By: Bob Tarzey, Quocirca | 8th March '10
Are multi-touch surfaces heading your way?
In the days of black screens and green type, the arrival of
colour was somewhat puzzling. If computers had got us so far
without colour, who'd want it? Everyone, it seems.
Then came windows, icons, mice and pointers. Again, we were all...
Teblog | By: David Tebbutt | 6th March '10
My Take on the SAS Analyst Conference
I just got back from the SAS
analyst event that was held in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. It
was a great meeting. Here are some of the themes I heard over the
few days I was there:
SAS is a unique place to work.
Consider the following:...
Fern Halper | By: Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 5th March '10
NetSuite's SP 100 Program: An Offer VARs Can't Refuse?
In a bold move to get traditional value-added resellers (VARs)
off the SaaS fence,
NetSuite announced its new Solution Provider (SP) 100
Program, which gives business application VARs 100% margin on
the first year of license...
Laurie McCabe | By: Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates | 3rd March '10
Enterprise performance management - the story continues...
Quocirca has completed the second cycle of research and analysis
for Oracle around enterprise performance management (EPM), and
the headline results show a massive improvement across the six
sub-indices and the overall EPM index. Surely,...
Quocirca | By: Clive Longbottom, Quocirca | 2nd March '10
KM that works
As if IT directors don't have enough on their plates, they're
being sucked in to all sorts of new areas. Every enterprise is,
or soon will be, an online publisher. Many will transition from a
hierarchical mentality to a more collaborative...
Teblog | By: David Tebbutt | 1st March '10
DataFlux Data Management Platform
Along with new releases from lots of data warehousing vendors,
TDWI has also seen in the formal announcement of the DataFlux
Data Management Platform which was previously known as the Unity
project. As the codename suggests this sees the...
Bloor IM Blog | By: Philip Howard, Bloor Research | 26th February '10
Five Steps to Effective SOA Governance
I will be presenting a session titled Five Steps to Effective
SOA Governance in BrightTALK's online SOA Governance Summit on
Thursday, February 25. The summit includes five webcasts on
different aspects of industry best practices for SOA...
Marcia Kaufman | By: Marcia Kaufman, Hurwitz & Associates | 25th February '10
Netezza Advanced Analytics
As usual at TDWI there are a series of announcements from major
vendors. Not least of this year's releases has been the
introduction of the Netezza TwinFin iClass, which follows on from
last month's announcement of the Netezza Skimmer (a...
Bloor IM Blog | By: Philip Howard, Bloor Research | 25th February '10
Aster Data 4.5
Releases come thick and fast during TDWI. One of the
more interesting announcements this week is Aster Data nCluster
version 4.5.
Aster Data's mission is to support what it calls big data
analytics. It initially addressed this need...
Bloor IM Blog | By: Philip Howard, Bloor Research | 24th February '10
Vertica at TDWI
Vertica, along with various other companies, has made a major
announcement at this week's TDWI, namely with respect to Vertica
4.0. This is a major release by any measure with the product
being in beta today and general availability...
Bloor IM Blog | By: Philip Howard, Bloor Research | 24th February '10
Lotus Symphony 3 beta 2 available for testing
IBM Lotus recently announced the availability of the latest beta
for Lotus Symphony and I have been trying it out for the last
week. I have been very impressed by the new functions available.
For those of you who are not aware, Lotus...
Abrahams Accessibility | By: Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research | 24th February '10
From system integrator to service integrator
One of the themes we delve into in our free online framing a Cloud
Computing strategy event is the emerging role of the Service
Integrator. This is something I've been talking about for a while
in discussions with clients but I thought I'd...
MWD Advisors | By: Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors | 23rd February '10
The myth of the expensive mainframe
Mainframes are expensive, aren't they?
Well, that's a piece of accepted wisdom I've never really bought
into. I think that mainframes are a remarkably cheap platform, if
they are properly managed, partly because getting 80% plus...
The Norfolk Punt | By: David Norfolk, Bloor Research | 22nd February '10
The Informatica Event
Last week I attended an Informatica analyst event. There was a
lot to digest but here are some highlights.
To begin with, the company talked about its acquisition of
Siperian. I have already commented on this but one point that
emerged...
Bloor IM Blog | By: Philip Howard, Bloor Research | 21st February '10
Is BPMS just the new word for application development?
With the recent acquisitions of Lombardi and Savvion, some are
questioning the long term viability of BPMS vendors. They may be
right, they may be wrong, but certainly things are changing.
If you look at some of the key players in the BPM...
Process Performance Blog | By: Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com | 20th February '10
Keeping mobile data flowing
A recent article in the Economist, titled Breaking up saturated mobile
networks, underlined the problems mobile network operators
(MNO) face as demand for data access surges.
The article is empathetic with a recent Quocirca report...
Quocirca | By: Bob Tarzey, Quocirca | 19th February '10
A Closer Look-Dell Managed Services for SMBs
Last April, I participated in
Dells Managed Services launch for SMBs. At the event, Dell
had a couple of customers on hand who were both very satisfied
with the service. Later in the year, Dell asked my colleague,
Sanjeev Aggarwal, and I...
Laurie McCabe | By: Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates | 19th February '10
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