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Monthly Archives: January 2011
BI changes in 2011 – but to what?
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 completely new environment in every sense of the word meaning how people visually want to see complex information, the device(s) on which they will be working, the types of decisions, and most of all …
The Inception of TRAIN and SCOOTER apps
Just 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 solutions that are lightweight, agile and created in – or very near – to the business. Actually, we distinguish different ‘Application Lifecycles’, each with their own dynamics around requirements, quality, time-to-market, agility, tools being used …
Disruptive 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 ‘next generation data centre’ relating to the details of how, and why, it differs in terms of technology leading to the operational side. This led quite naturally …
The 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. It’s the same technology that is being brought into the enterprise under the heading of the consumerisation of IT. It’s not now a simple issue of whether employees bring their own smartphones or PCs into the workplace, …
If 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 explaining things, I liked his views on the ever tricky topic of cloud computing back in May 2010 and is on Twitter at follow@tim_weber. We were discussing exactly what …
Boniface and the Cloud
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 improved solutions pop up over and over again. Initially, their potential only seems to be grasped by a few – self-proclaimed – enlightened ones that feel the irrepressible …
The 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 puzzlement, but after recent meetings with big players, IBM and HP, and a selection of new contenders led by Joyent, an Intel Capital backed player (see notes at end), there is no doubt that dramatic change …
