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Good Identity 2.0 presentation
by Jeff Milne on Jun 25, 2008 - 04:35 PM read 341 timesFast pased, entertaining, informative presentation (great example) on digital identity from Dick Hardt at Sxip Identity: http://identity20.com/media/OSCON2005/ His Blog is here: http://identity20.com/ ... read more -
My Experience with Cloud Computing
by Tony Gonzalez on Jun 20, 2008 - 02:21 PM read 105 times
Source: http://tonygonzalez.wordpress.com/?p=25Working with the Energy and Utilities vertical at nGenera we are seriously considering hosting a new product offering on the cloud using Amazon’s EC2 web service. My experience so far is very positive. Easy to sign up, easy to use, easy to administer (even with the command-line tools) and the price… can’t beat that! at $0.10 / instance hour it beats the typical hosting agreements. even ... read more -
Browserless Applications
by Andrew Bruce on Jun 20, 2008 - 09:57 AM read 81 times
I found an article called Next Gen Apps Won't Be Pushed Around By the Browser, and thought I should share it with everyone. It is a very thought provoking article outlining the various approaches that companies are using to deliver applications without the browser. Any company serious about utilizing a platform for delivery of applications should read and consider carefully how they can capitalize on or improve on the ... read more -
Recession and Business-IT Maturity
by Vaughan Merlyn on Apr 22, 2008 - 06:00 AM read 455 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=230Just as a lot of CIO’s were gearing up for a year or twoof growth and innovation, many are now being told to “hunker down” for a period of austerity. The usual first victims - cut travel, cut training, cut anything that smells like overhead! That Enterprise Architecture initiative that was starting to pay off? Cut it back! The SOA pilots? Put them on a back burner. The Relationship Management ... read more -
SaaS and the IT Organization Circa 2017
by Vaughan Merlyn on Apr 17, 2008 - 08:01 AM read 2114 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=232I’ve speculated before in this blog that Software as a Service was a significant force of change on IT organizations. A colleague just turned me on to a (new to me) blog called Think IT Services, and its latest post Why IT Now Sees SaaS AsA Savior. In his post Jeff Kaplan cites several indications that SaaS is gaining acceptance by IT organizations. I think that it’s difficult ... read more -
Lost Steam? Find your lost soul with Social Media!
by Tony Gonzalez on Mar 20, 2008 - 03:05 PM read 276 times
Source: http://tonygonzalez.wordpress.com/?p=24Everyday I see more and more of the “wikinomics” concepts being applied in real business scenarios. One of the latest is Starbucks. they have been loosing steam and they are now brewing a social media projectin order to find their”lost soul”. http://mystarbucksidea.force.com/home/home.jsp Interesting to mention that this is build on force.com. ... read more -
So, What Comes After Level 3 Business-IT Maturity?
by Vaughan Merlyn on Mar 12, 2008 - 05:36 AM read 373 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=201I had a question from a colleague recently that I’d like to address in this post. She asked, “Im going to ask a possibly ‘dumb’ question, but since I believe that there are no dumb questions Im asking it anyway Since level 3 is constantly evolving i.e., todays Level 3 will be tomorrows Level 2 etc., isnt it always going to be a moving target? If I was a company ... read more -
Intuit offers QuickBase SaaS platform - hosted code-free application development platform
by Jeff Milne on Mar 03, 2008 - 10:48 AM read 533 timesLooking to attract VARs and business domain experts as partners for its build-your-own SAAS offering, Intuit has introduced a formal channel program for its code-free application development and hosted platform, QuickBase. DATE: 2008-02-27, By Jessica Davis The company creates a formal partner program for its QuickBase platform, offering commissions of 20 to 35 percent. Looking to attract VARs and business domain experts as partners for its build-your-own SAAS offering, ... read more -
Hardware as a Service: Cisco Unified Communications
by Jeff Milne on Mar 03, 2008 - 10:21 AM read 550 timesSelling Unified Communications for Pennies a Day DATE: 2008-02-22, By Jessica Davis Cisco moves closer to hardware-as-a-service with a per-user, per-day pricing plan that charges about as much as for a daily newspaper and includes upfront costs. Do your customers like the idea of unified communications but balk at the upfront price tag? A new financing option from Cisco attempts to jump that sales roadblock by breaking down UC ... read more -
Simulation as a Service
by gdanner on Jan 03, 2008 - 02:20 PM read 289 timesWhen Howard and I were with Industrial Science, we constantly spoke with potential clients about simulation. “Simulation”, we said, “is a highly custom experience for a given firm. Don’t fall prey to those who try to sell you a packaged application or model.”. Today we are at BSG Alliance, a company that delivers applications on demand, one of which is simulation. Have we abandoned our principles? No we have not…I ... read more -
Reflections on 2007 - En Route to 2017 (Part 2)
by Vaughan Merlyn on Dec 28, 2007 - 07:57 AM read 411 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/2007/12/28/reflec...I reflected in my last post on several significant milestones that mark 2007 on the journey to 2017 for IT organizations. When students of IT organizational evolution look back on 2007 ten years from now, what might this year be remembered for? I’ll continue this theme now. Enterprise Systemsunmasked as “no big deal” after all! A veritable firestorm was ignited in the blogosphere when Robert Scoble ... read more -
Business-IT Maturity: Theory Of The Case - Part 1
by Vaughan Merlyn on Dec 14, 2007 - 06:00 AM read 2206 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/busine...I’d liketo begin examining and making explicit a theory of the case for “Next Generation IT Capability.” By theory of the caseI mean to identify the major drivers behind increasing business-IT maturity, and lay out some basic principles of business-IT evolution - how today’s IT shops are evolving to capitalize on emerging technologies (e.g., Web 2.0, SOA, SaaS) and enable new and more valuable business models. Let’s start by considering thedrivers ... read more -
Down To Business: Don't Care For Software As A Service? -- Software As A Service -- InformationWeek
by Rob Preston on Nov 13, 2007 - 11:52 AM read 360 times
Source: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?ar..."Software as a service is still an unsavory prospect for many business technology professionals. Their point of view: If information is the lifeblood of the 21st century organization, then ceding management and ultimately control of that information to third parties is something of an unnatural act. But if we're to evolve our thinking about the role of IT, software as a service can be a fertile testing ground. Which applications ... read more -
Simulation as a Service
by gdanner on Nov 08, 2007 - 10:08 AM read 389 timesWhen Howard and I were with Industrial Science, we constantly spoke with potential clients about simulation. “Simulation”, we said, “is a highly custom experience for a given firm. Don’t fall prey to those who try to sell you a packaged application or model.”. Today we are at BSG Alliance, a company that delivers applications on demand, one of which is simulation. Have we abandoned our principles? No we have not…I ... read more -
10 Things you should know about SaaS
by Firoz on Nov 05, 2007 - 01:06 PM read 214 times
Simple yet interesting slideshow on eweek about Saas that I thought I'd share.. http://www.eweek.com/slideshow_viewer/0,1205,l=&s=27228&a=218530&po=1,00.asp?p=y&kc=EWKNLEDP110507A ... read more -
another platform ?
by serengeti on Oct 17, 2007 - 03:10 PM read 266 timesLook at the rush of social networks looking to follow Facebook’s lead and by offering API’s and turning themselves into platforms for third party applications. I’m betting it is no fad. It is of course true that Facebook was first to market with this initiative back in May and that everyone is now jumping on the bandwagon and copying them, but for my money that is more because the last ... read more -
A Tale of Two Platforms
by Steve Douty on Oct 12, 2007 - 05:32 PM read 2027 timesRecently, Marc Andreessen of Netscape and Ning fame, proposed a maturity model for platforms on his blog. I urge you to read his article, but I also want to propose a BSG Alliance position for everyone in our company to adopt, so that we are talking about the right meanings of “platform.” Andreessen is clearly talking about technology platforms – mechanisms that reduce many of the barriers of ... read more -
SAP Business ByDesign
by Brittain on Oct 09, 2007 - 12:00 AM read 306 times
Source: http://www.sap.com/usa/search/lp/bydesign.epx?campaigncod...For those of us who haven't been following SAP's entry into the SaaS, SOA, and mid-market space. Click the "Source" link above for the details. ... read more -
Master Data Management in the Service Oriented Enterprise
by Tony Gonzalez on Oct 04, 2007 - 10:10 AM read 1333 times
Source: http://tonygonzalez.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/master-data-...With the latest trends in service orientation from an architectural and from business services offering perspective, it has become a high priority for an organization to define and implement a master data management strategy. The enterprise must look to standardize on management of the transactional, master and transactional data, but often forgotten is the unstructured data and metadata. A comprehensive MDM strategy must include policies and safeguard for unstructured ... read more -
Titan, Not Online Services, Is Microsoft's Real SaaS Play - Microsoft Blog - InformationWeek
by Anonymous User on Oct 02, 2007 - 12:00 AM read 282 times
Source: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/10...Interesting article from Mary Weir of InformationWeek (click "source" link above to read full article)" "Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)'s trying to get attention this week for its "new" Online Services for businesses, including on-demand Exchange and SharePoint. But this is just rebranding of hosted software it's offered for a while. If you want to know Microsoft's true SaaS play, take a look at Titan. That's the market-stompin' (in Microsoft's ... read more
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