By The simple answer is that it’s about providing real-time business intelligence to people to support their decisions, not instead of, but in addition to traditional BI analysis of past success or trends. A more complex answer is that this is a...
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All posts for January 2011
The Inception of TRAIN and SCOOTER apps
By Ron Tolido
2CommentsJust sharing with you that we are currently finalizing the 2011 edition of Capgemini's TechnoVision. An important inception is the analysis of the applications landscape and the impact on delivery models as we are shifting towards a new category of...
Read moreDisruptive Change for All IT Professionals – The Open Data Center Alliance
I had planned to write a kind of roundup as to where the market is now as a traditional beginning of year review, and had lined up a number of thoughts and interesting references to other blogs. However I was doing some research on the topic of the...
Read moreThe Consumer Electronics Show & Consumerisation of IT
Every year the big CES show in Las Vegas just keeps getting bigger and bigger, encompassing more and more technology under the heading of ‘consumer’. In recent years it’s also been increasingly a trend-setting event around personal technology....
Read moreIf it’s people centric, what are the risks?
Several things got me thinking about this; the first was an interview with Tim Weber for BBC Online but turned into more of an interesting discussion as Tim is a smart guy very much into technology and its business use. He has a great way of...
Read moreBoniface and the Cloud
By Ron Tolido
In 754, Boniface found out the hard way that too much evangelizing will kill you. Would the poor man have lived in our time, no doubt he now would be an IT guru. Think about it: the IT industry is relatively young and immature. New, augmented, much...
Read moreThe new data centre is not your current one virtualised
I clearly remember Larry Ellison on stage at Oracle Open World this year saying; ‘if you are delivering a transactional application under SaaS from a virtualised datacentre then it’s not a cloud! The audience reaction was mostly one of...
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