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Monthly Archives: May 2007
Celebrating NetWeaver the disintegrator!
So why does an integrated software application need more integration technology? To my mind it’s a fascinating question – and perhaps more complex than it first appears – and one which was answered at a session I was at yesterday with a mixed industry and technology group discussing SAP past, present and future. The joke goes that whatever you do in SAP it results in a ledger entry. Good for the CFO, potentially not so …
Web 3.0 gets meaningful by building on Wikipedia
I have voiced my concerns that the rise of Web 3.0 in the need for the Semantic Web might mean a return to a whole series on approaches that have been around for quite a few years now without actually getting anywhere meaningful. I was hoping to be proved wrong and that new approaches would emerge that built on the new capabilities and thinking that have emerged, and are still emerging. I am delighted to …
It’s SAP, remember
Frequent visitors of IT events know it’s true: a race car simulator will guarantee one of the busiest spots in the hall. Even the most self-controlled manager transforms into an introvert, white-faced maniac the moment he is seated behind the steering wheel and the virtual race begins. Luckily enough, the Sapphire in Vienna had an exciting attraction like that. Because for the rest, the atmosphere at the annual SAP user conference was a bit on …
Changing the Game – concerns at SAP Sapphire in Vienna
Been talking to a lot of people, Business and IT, and there is a pretty constant picture emerging. There is a general feeling that it’s not a case of ‘business as usual’, things are changing, but what are these things, and what is changing? That’s not so easy to answer, and that’s maybe a root cause for the sense of unease that also seems to be common. Good management is to figure out the key …
Second Life and Life 2.0 – the saga continues….
As life in the real world, or my first life as I think of it, continues so does life in Second Life, or SL. However I am finding it increasingly difficult to reconcile progress in SL itself with ‘real’ progress in the use of virtual worlds. Before all you SLs out there, and judging by previous responses there are a lot, hit me with your postings can I explain that what I am looking for …
‘Intimacy’ is the new Acquisition strategy
We live in interesting times as the Chinese say when it comes to industry consolidation moves. The New York Post followed by the Wall Street Journal reported discussions were in an early stage for Microsoft to buy Yahoo, or at least find some formal relationship for joint activities in the market. Yahoo and Microsoft are respectively the second and third players in the internet search business behind Google and this in theory would bring some …
Insight to the People
Must be a sign of the times. Microsoft organises a Business Intelligence conference for the very first time and the convention centre in Seattle is completely packed. Almost 3000 attendees from all over the world witness announcements of new products and strategic alliances. Also, there’s a live demo at least once an hour: Microsoft people tend to get nervous if they can’t click a mouse regularly. Is Business Intelligence an area that should be watched …
What is the role of an IT department when the users are IT literate?
This was the key question that was set at the off site IT management meeting of a global business a couple of weeks ago. I had the pleasure of attending as a guest speaker and was delighted to see this question come up as a working topic. It is, in a single clear question, the crystallisation of why I have devoted so much recent Blog time to ‘new’ user based technology. The new universal literacy …
What comes first? Structured, or Unstructured?
Its seems we are in the middle of a boom market for Business Intelligence Management, or what ever term you want to apply to the gathering and use of Information and Knowledge for the support of business decision making. On one side we have a generation of investment in knowledge management tools, on the other side we have Web 2.0 based approaches, and that’s before we start on the detailed debate of what is structured …
Some Cracks are appearing in Web 2.0 basics
As you may have gathered by now I am a big believer that standards play a crucial role in the current wave of technology, and that this has allowed what I have called ‘shadow IT’, (parallel activities to the official IT systems), to develop with reasonable safety. Perhaps more accurately this can be described as ‘technology literate user driven IT’, as I am far from suggesting that all users are either capable, or should be …
