SAP buying Ariba last week, Oracle to buy Collective Intellect this week: acquiring SaaS solutions as pivotal to their cloud strategy by now seems business as usual for the most established industry leaders (and some of their challengers as...
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Morpheus CIO
If you don’t know who Morpheus is, stop reading this post: you obviously took the Blue Pill. For all the others, you may like the flashy keynote that Sanjay Mirchandani, EMC’s much decorated CIO gave last week at EMC World in Las Vegas...
Read moreIT professionals: Very much the time to change our approach
This is the post I never considered I’d be writing when back in 2006 Ron Tolido and I started the CTO blog. Now more than 300 posts later, and with the help of great support from those who have been kind enough to read and comment, I am writing my...
Read moreBusiness processes are an enterprise asset say C level executives
Has BPM Reached a Tipping Point?This statement is one of the interesting findings of a survey of over 1000 executives carried out by UK-based research firm FreshMinds on behalf of my colleagues in Capgemini Business Process Management. You can read...
Read moreOf Robust, Agile and No Processes: the Global BPM Report is out
To some enlightened people, the glass is always half full and I must say, having had a good look at our newly released Global BPM Report, there is always a good reason to consider Business Process Management. Even – or especially - if you don’t...
Read moreStandards: UML gets better, but is mobile web getting worse?
As an old guy, I often look at blogs and tweets with perhaps the wrong mindset, so here is a question for those who have been good enough to take the time to read my posts.Should I blog my personal opinions, which might be unsubstantiated by facts....
Read moreCalm Technology, Real Virtuality
Just when you thought that Clicks & Mortar finally, irreversibly was a topic from an overhyped past. Global clothing retailer C&A pilots an unexpected use of the Facebook Like in its Sao Paulo store. It equipped its garment hangers with...
Read moreIBM joins Oracle and HP in providing optimized Technology ‘stacks’
"May you live in interesting times” is reputedly an ancient Chinese curse suggesting that the stress of chaos and change does not make for a good life."There must be more than a few IT colleagues who feel they are indeed living in...
Read moreNot your average Agile post
It’s interesting to see how Agile principles currently enjoy a state of obvious Renaissance. Or should we say Epiphany? To our mild surprise, there is a whole new generation of both clients and IT professionals that seemingly just today discovered...
Read moreWhen is a database not a database?
Okay, it’s a silly question. But after years of Relational Databases, RDMS (and frankly with database skills and operation being one of the most core and central planks of the IT department) we suddenly have a rash of announcements. This can only...
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