When developing enterprise 2.0 solutions there is no such thing as a phase two in which you can do product enhancements that are left out in phase one. If you did not start with a proper enhanced product or service within your E2.0 environment that...
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SaaS for enterprises
Lately, I am thinking a lot about Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). I can easily see the benefits of SaaS, which I will not discuss here. But I have concerns too, especially in using SaaS on an enterprise scale. Currently, using SaaS means accessing...
Read moreThe public sector openness
My first post here on the blog was titled "The disruptiveness of the open walled telecom garden" and now I venture into another topic concerning the benefits of being open. I suspect a pattern! I want to discuss openness in the public sector. The...
Read moreRock & Roll consulting, Web 2.0 style
It has to be said: people have a way too romantic idea about consultants going to conferences. True, we are spoiled by the vendors (and our company), we stay in nice hotels, meet great people, food is usually pretty good but trust me… it’s pretty...
Read moreClean Clouds - how to secure utility computing
So, I can use my home broadband which gives me a reliable 10Mbps for £10 per month ... or I can use a corporate network which gives me a slightly less reliable 100Kbps for £200 per month or more ... Most corporations are don't build great IT...
Read moreWrite once, REALLY run everywhere
Remember Sun's slogan for Java: write once, run everywhere? Because of the platform independency of Java, a Java application will indeed run on many platforms without any rewrite or recompile. Java is mostly used on the server side of things but it...
Read moreSAP TechEd 2008 Berlin - Live event coverage!
Practice what you preach, eat your own dog food and drink your own champagne. While we are not a dog food manufacturer, champagne house nor religion (really?), it has no use to advice clients on how to use innovative technologies if we are not...
Read moreFirstTuesday: The Entrepreneur’s Ball
On Tuesday evening, I had the distinctly heady experience of speaking to an audience of some 100 Entrepreneurs, Investors and Service Providers in an event to “Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of UK’s Internet Industry”. This informal event,...
Read moreTesters 2.0
“Masterful viral for Software Testers on YouTube. Check this out!” You couldn’t get a better endorsement than that. That’s what I thought when I first saw this reaction from a top Recruitment site to the first video we put on YouTube last...
Read moreMashups can be made by your grandma
There used to be a time that creating a webpage was a hard job. You had to open notepad, vim (or whatever editor was suitable those days) and you had to create every piece of markup by hand. Then came the first web editors (Microsoft Frontpage,...
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