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Continuous deployment at BCS CMSG 2013

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norfolk, Bloor Research) — Tue, 21 May 2013 08:00:00 +0100

If there is one thing that drives agile delivery of automated business outcomes, it's continuous deployment. Automation of error-prone manual procedures reduces errors and increases efficiency - as... [Read More...]

Intel's HTML app development environment

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norfolk, Bloor Research) — Fri, 17 May 2013 08:00:00 +0100

An interesting innovation at the 2013 Intel Software Conference was its free HTML5 development environment�- a packaged set of programming tools, including cloud support. The approach is different... [Read More...]

The Intel Software Conference 2013 in Chantilly

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norfolk, Bloor Research) — Fri, 17 May 2013 08:00:00 +0100

The Intel Software Conference was in Chantilly this year and, once again, James Reinders' keynote set the agenda - see his blogs here. It's all about parallel programming from few to many cores with... [Read More...]

BCS CMSG Conference 2013

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norfolk, Bloor Research) — Wed, 15 May 2013 08:00:00 +0100

It's almost here - The BCS CMSG Conference 2013 is on 4 June 2013. Configuration Management is about a lot more than just delivering software code and the BCS Configuration... [Read More...]

New platform for the Internet of Things

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norfolk, Bloor Research) — Wed, 15 May 2013 08:00:00 +0100

I've been thinking�for some time�that the Internet of Things (IoT) is the next big technology disruption�- what we're doing now may simply not scale easily to this new world. Nothing new there but... [Read More...]

More than a DevOps story

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norfolk, Bloor Research) — Wed, 15 May 2013 06:00:00 +0100

It's not often that I review fiction in here, but I think this book is worth a read - both by IT professionals and by the business managers who (hopefully) manage them. The book is The Phoenix... [Read More...]

Enterprise apps for sale

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norfolk, Bloor Research) — Fri, 03 May 2013 06:00:00 +0100

Salesforce.com is about a lot more than customer relationship management these days. Perhaps one of the most interesting facets of the product is salesforce.com as a trusted platform for enterprise... [Read More...]

CA World 2013 Fytte 2 - Mainframe Application Virtualisation

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norfolk, Bloor Research) — Thu, 02 May 2013 06:00:00 +0100

Talking with Michael Madden, General Manager, and David Hodgson of CA's Mainframe group, I ws touched by their infectious (and, in my opinion, justified) enthusiasm. It's also a good sign that if... [Read More...]

Huddle impressions: some features

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norfolk, Bloor Research) — Wed, 01 May 2013 07:50:00 +0100

I've just had a hands-on demo of Huddle (which describes itself as an enterprise content collaboration�platform)�with Jonathan Howell (its CTO) and James Pipe (one of its... [Read More...]

News from CA World 2013 - Fytte the First

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norfolk, Bloor Research) — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:00:00 +0100

So, CA Technologies has a new CEO at last (see management team bios here) and Michael P. Gregoire looks as though he may be what the company needs. Talking to people at CA Technologies, he seems... [Read More...]

Huddle impressions: collaboration pain-points

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norfolk, Bloor Research) — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:00:00 +0100

The trouble with collaboration software is that it is really hard to assess without using it in a real community - with real pain points that collaboration can help with.... [Read More...]

The dark path - how does it operate in 'failure mode'?

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norfolk, Bloor Research) — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:00:00 +0100

I'm at CA-2013 and CA Technologies is telling a good joined-up story around advanced technology and mobile solutions. It has feedback loops around the user experience and so on. The devil may be in... [Read More...]

Embarcadero RAD Studio XE4

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norfolk, Bloor Research) — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 07:00:00 +0100

At one, rather over-simplified, level, New Development is about building mobile apps: get them out quickly, sell them cheap, throw them away and build another if they don't... [Read More...]

Big Data governance and EU data law - Part 2

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norfolk, Bloor Research) — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 07:00:00 +0100

In the first part of this piece, I raised some issues around data protection legislation and Big Data. Now I want to get some expert advice - as anyone starting a Big Data initiative should. I asked... [Read More...]

Achieving CMDB accuracy

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norfolk, Bloor Research) — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 07:00:00 +0100

On Tues 9th�April 2013, the BCS-CMSG�configuration management specialist group held a very useful presentation on maintaining CMDB (Configuration Management Database) accuracy, from Michel Delran... [Read More...]

Big Data governance and EU data law - Part 1

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norfolk, Bloor Research) — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 06:00:00 +0100

I met someone at a recent CMSG meeting who suggested that one aspect of the Big Data�opportunity was about to hit major problems because it was collecting data for targeted... [Read More...]

Free BCS-CMSG CMDB event

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norfolk, Bloor Research) — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 06:00:00 +0100

I'll be going along to hear Michel Delran from Unisys describing a simple way of understanding the lifecycle of the CI attributes-letting you stay in control of your CMDB. You can expand his... [Read More...]

Tom Wolff's Newsletter

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norfolk, Bloor Research) — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 07:00:00 +0100

I've noticed that some people seem to assume that if you talk about technology as being important in organisations today, and (I believe) it is, then you are also saying that everything should be... [Read More...]

What keeps people at Fuzed awake at night?

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norfolk, Bloor Research) — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 06:00:00 +0100

Now that I'm taking a new interest in social collaboration, I'm getting a little concerned about people implementing social collaboration technology and then looking for a collaboration issue to use... [Read More...]

Social Collaboration Technology - an emerging checklist

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norfolk, Bloor Research) — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 07:00:00 +0100

Social Collaboration always strikes me as more about people and organisational behaviour than technology - although once an organisation has a vision for social... [Read More...]

Enterprise Architecture

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norfolk, Bloor Research) — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 07:00:00 +0100

Why do I feel the need to talk about enterprise architecture (EA) on an Enterprise Development�page? Surely, as a practitioner friend told me recently, EA is for... [Read More...]

Service virtualisation writ larger

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norfolk, Bloor Research) — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:00:00 +0100

[{page:Service virtualisation:Service virtualisation}] is usually thought of as simply a testing tool. It lets you simulate services (either internal such as SAP, or external such as Salesforce, or... [Read More...]

News from Pulse: Fytte the First

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norfolk, Bloor Research) — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 07:00:00 +0100

My up-front impression from the Tivoli's Pulse conference in Las Vegas is that Tivoli is now a lot more than just a collection of Operations tools (in fact, it probably has been, for some time). It's... [Read More...]

Changes at IBM System Engineering

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norfolk, Bloor Research) — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 07:00:00 +0100

I've just had a very interesting online analyst roundtable with the Systems Engineering wing of IBM Rational. The latest news is that Meg Selfe is moving on to start up a Smarter Physical... [Read More...]

New Social Collaboration responsibility at Bloor

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norfolk, Bloor Research) — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 07:00:00 +0100

My name is David Norfolk, I'm responsible for [{page:Enterprise Development:Development}] (including [{page:New Development:New Development}]) and [{page:Governance:Governance}] at Bloor; and I'm... [Read More...]

Call for Papers for the BCS CMSG 2013 Conference - deadline 11th March

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norfolk, Bloor Research) — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 07:00:00 +0100

It's that time of the year again - the Call for Papers for the premier UK event on Change, Release, Asset and Configuration Management for ITIL and Service Management and throughout the application... [Read More...]

Research note: testing

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norfolk, Bloor Research) — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 07:00:00 +0100

I recently blogged about the Qualitest Group and its third party testing services. I like the idea of using an external testing organisation because I believe that testers need a different mind-set... [Read More...]

Qualitest acquires TCL and inspires some thoughts on testing

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norfolk, Bloor Research) — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 07:00:00 +0100

The UK TCL independent Software Testing Consultancy has just been acquired by the Qualitest Group, which claims to be the world's second largest pure-play testing services provider - so, I presume,... [Read More...]

Configuration Management Resources

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norfolk, Bloor Research) — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 07:00:00 +0100

Configuration management is important - and if you implement ITIL or CMMI you know that. For everyone else, it's about knowing what you have, where it is, what it does, what impacts it has if it goes... [Read More...]

Understanding Infrastructure Configurations In an Enterprise

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norfolk, Bloor Research) — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 07:00:00 +0100

Wednesday 6 February 2013: Understanding Infrastructure Configurations In an Enterprise - Configuration management isn't just for software! Presentation lead by CMSG Committee Member David... [Read More...]