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Monthly Archives: September 2010
CIOs say they need to make drastic changes but to what?
Forrester has just reported that 52% of CIOs recently surveyed stated that they plan to make ‘transformational’ changes to the way their department functions within the next three years. The reasons, after the obvious one of ‘economic necessity’, were rather interesting as it’s difficult to tell whether it’s the business driving the change in response to how technology has altered the market, or it is new technology enabling them to bring change to the business. …
New Thoughts on Data from Business Intelligence to Gov 2.0
I like to follow Ray Wang posts. I have known Ray quite a while and well understand why he is thought of as the ‘analysts’ analyst’, his views are well worth reading and usually make me thoughtful. As I remain convinced that we are heading into an era when we will have to think seriously about data, in every sense from formats, to providence, ontology to tagging, and indeed how we use data individually and …
VM World and Oracle Open World: A Seminal Shift
It’s the start of the autumn show season when the industry lines up its customers to show them the new products that will make their businesses more efficient and maybe make the operation of the IT department a little easier. Nothing new in the timing of this cycle of events, but I feel this year is going to be a turning point for the industry and its customers. Maybe my personal excitement and enthusiasm is …
Dreamed a Dream
The other night, I had a terrible nightmare. The bell rang. Two international software gurus stood at the doorstep (no wait, it gets even scarier than that). They asked me if I wanted to be a jury member. The thing was, they told me, everybody felt that it was high time for a new breakthrough in programming languages. Years and years the same, there was a clear lack of pezaz in the industry. So somebody …
Genuine Progress on Clouds
Once again there has been a conjunction of three events that when combined seem to create a firm direction or point of view. The first was the recent FutureGov event report published by the Australian Government, considered by many as a leader in their use of technology to transform their working practices. The second was the draft conclusions of the Open Group meeting on the impact of cloud technology on their core mission of providing …
