Once, I spend an entire summer with Isaac Asimov’s The Foundation, according to many the best book series in the science fiction genre ever. Despite that, I don’t recall much of the story line, but one of the main themes is the principle of...
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Build, Buy, Open Source or Services?
It rather seems we’re spoilt for choice with IT these days, but as in other aspects of life, choice is only a good thing when the reasons for each option are clear. IT and its role - or alignment to - business had become pretty mature, as had the...
Read moreEnterprise Karmic Koala
When on holidays, I try to be unaware of technology as much as possible (people that happen to know my e-mail out-of-office messages will recognise this). Only natural. But not as easy as it seems. Two years ago, when we drove back through the French...
Read moreHave we really understood what Business Intelligence means?
Everyone wants ‘business intelligence’ (BI) but have we failed to grasp the gap between what the business managers want and what conventional BI reporting delivers? I was ‘socialising’ this point with a former colleague whose views are always...
Read moreBusiness Model Change in the IT industry itself!
Microsoft will become a provider of cloud-based computing and business services with the ‘official’ launch of Azure during mid-July. Apparently in becoming official, pricing and service levels have been fixed. I don’t want to revisit my...
Read moreTelecom Technologies- Time for 4G and beyond?
Here is an interesting guest blog by Sayak Basu, senior consultant from Capgemini’s TME strategy lab. I hope you will enjoy it. - Andy A recent blog posting from a Gartner analyst on telecom technologies caught my attention. The analyst poses the...
Read moreSOA; the various standards come together, but when to use?
The trigger for this post was a new whitepaper we published on SOA. The paper is far from being just another rehash on this topic - which continues to create controversy. It is the combined work of the three most prolific providers of various...
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