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- Reduce Cost and Improve Service Levels with Application Performance Monitoring Simplification
- Organizations are feeling the pressure of economic uncertainty. They strive to closely align IT infrastructure to the business and also face challenges to reduce costs. While virtually every IT organization has multiple management solutions in place, the unfortunate truth is that most companies are struggling to develop a product mix...
- Webcasts 2009-11-19
- Understanding Enterprise 2.0 Tolerances & Scale
- We're at an interesting intersection in the collaboration world where projects both large and small tend to be discussed with the same terms. This can be very confusing to the lay person since it's hard to know what sort of scale is being described. ...
- Blog posts 2009-11-14
- Why IT can't seem to deliver measurable productivity
- Sounds like excuses to me.If it can't be shown on the bottom line, its useless.IT really needs to be aligned with business needs.From what I have heard talking with several managers, IT needs to come out out the silo and focus on delivering business needs and services. From what...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- Application transformation case study targets enterprise bottom line with eye-popping ROI
- The ongoing impact of the reset economy is putting more emphasis on lean IT -- of identifying and eliminating waste across the data-center landscape. The top candidates, on several levels, are the silo-architected legacy applications and the aging IT systems that support them. by Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-10-25
- Seven ways companies go wrong with SOA
- Remember, SOA is a journey, not a quick overnight fix. It's a transformative process that your organization will follow for the long run. A few years back, I put together a list of where companies appeared to be steering in the wrong direction in terms of...
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- Lexmark Platinum Pro 905
- Businesses shopping for a new multifunction printer already have enough decisions to make without throwing a touch-screen option into the mix, but most of the big printer vendors already have models with one or one in the works. We've reviewed the Brother MFC-990CW and the HP Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless,...
- Product reviews 2009-09-25
- Using social software to reinvent the customer relationship
- What IS Enterprise Web 2.0?[of course there IS no such thing, and if there is it is the crumpled Frankenstein that it suggests it is]"While Enterprise 2.0 tools, primarily aimed at collaboration, are certainly part of this story, they often don?t help companies enjoy the full range of possibilities when...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-18
- Global Collaboration Competitive Success: Old Dogs, New Tricks & The Shift Index
- The above CNBC video of John Hagel Deloitte Center for the Edge discusses the huge problem of applying old business thinking when adopting new technology, and the scary new realities around global business competitiveness. 'Measuring the forces of long term change - the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-10
- From Big Blue to Big Brown as IBM expands into sewage management and other green initiatives
- IBM representatives were in San Francisco on Tuesday to announce a partnership with the city around several green initiatives and also to launch several broader initiatives that include the development of advanced battery technologies at its Almaden Research Center in San Jose. I met with Alan Ganek,...
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- How badly are your business applications performing?
- Due for formal release later this week, a study conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of Precise at SAP's May 2009 SAPPHIRE reveals some remarkable stats about systems performance and the response times for problem resolution. 695 persons completed the survey. Some key metrics: ...
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- News to know: Apple WWDC, iPhone, Macs; Palm Pre; Google Apps; Facebook
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Apple coverage: Ed Burnette: WWDC 2009 live Jason D. O'Grady: WWDC 09: the announcements (Updated 10x)...
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Is SOA governance also its own silo?
- Is SOA governance also its own silo?SOA is hardWhy else would it be considered "elite" and something that "average" programmers would have a problem with? As for silos, they form because (J-type) humans need to control hierarchies and create patterns. Architects are P-types and embrace change. This juxtaposition between the...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-08
- Is SOA governance also its own silo?
- The purpose of SOA governance is to cut across all the silos and get all the business on the same page, using the same services. However, my chum Tony Baer over at Ovum is seeing evidence that organizations may be spawning a brand-new silo in the process...
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- Can a startup challenge Google on the re-invention of e-mail?
- Can a startup challenge Google on the re-invention of e-mail?Of course!"Can a small startup - made up the two co-founders and one employee working in a studio apartment in Silicon Valley..." Isn't this how Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo!, eBay, Google, etc., all started in their respective David-and-Goliath enviroments?RE: Can a...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-04
- Google to sell e-books by end of 2009; what will Amazon do?
- Amazon, get ready: Google's throwing its hat into the e-book ring. Google has indicated its intent to introduce a program by that would enable publishers to sell digital versions of their newest books direct to consumers through Google, according to a...
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- Bartz can carry a room; Can she carry Yahoo?
- Bartz can carry a room; Can she carry Yahoo?I like her ideas...She's got some fire, and a very good 30,000 foot view. Something a LOT of CEO's don't have. If she can get the "silo's" to work together, yet stay out of the way of how the work...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-28
- Bartz can carry a room; Can she carry Yahoo?
- Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz sure can carry a room---especially the crowd at the D7 conference. The formula: Drop an F-bomb, talk Dilbert, mock the silos at Yahoo and tease us about a search deal with Microsoft if there are big dollars involved. Next step: Do something about the sources of...
- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- Two BPM interviews that show how robust custom development still is
- A Bright Light in High Tech Nice to see a tech sector bucking the economy I recently conducted two different interviews on the BPM business process management space. One of these was with Phil Gilbert, President of Austin-based, Lombardi Software and the other...
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- SAPPHIRE and The Story of Stuff
- Annie Leonard’s Story of Stuff sustainability presentation has been doing the rounds in American classrooms and has stoked up many on both sides of the political divide. On one side, parents tell of angst ridden kids now wondering about the ecological footprint of Lego and on...
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- 'SOA is Dead' debate lives on and on
- I didn't see the brilliant analyst Anne Thomas Manes at either of this week's IBM IMPACT or Software AG's SOA Summit events, but boy, was she there in spirit. The topic still on everybody's minds and lips at both events was Anne's pronouncement at the beginning of the year that...
- Blog posts 2009-05-08
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