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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Cloud in the Middle: an interview about Capgemini, Microsoft and Windows Azure
Although all major technology providers are obviously embracing the journey to the cloud, I would say that Microsoft is among the boldest in terms of their commitment to the new, game-changing scenarios that the cloud brings. This is why we have been proud to announce our joint collaboration that offers accelerated cloud services, building on the Windows Azure platform. The announcement created quite some interest, including from IT Europa: one of the few true Pan-European …
Business and technical services orchestration v system integration
I wrote the following article in response to a request for a piece on orchestration, currently a topic that is just beginning to have an impact because increasingly the shift into using services as opposed to applications becomes real. The idea of reusable services for mainstream purposes started with SOA, Services Orchestrated Architecture, and I would say that the hangover of the failure of SOA to make any real difference is affecting the approach to …
Commoditization or specialization of IT with a skills shortage?
As is usually the case there are several triggers for this post reflecting current news, events, and other posts in the blogosphere. Right back from when Nicholas Carr started the debate with his famous article ‘IT Doesn’t Matter’ the question as to whether or not IT is a commodity has raged on. You certainly can make an argument that for common back office tasks universal automation based on the same handful of enterprise applications means …
How do you feel about customers commenting on the quality of your software?
This week Capgemini and HP launched the World Quality Report for 2011/12, the latest edition of an annual report based on the experiences and surveying that the two companies’ testing businesses have uncovered individually and by working together. It’s an impressive document running to 88 pages and is available as an online download so I don’t want to cover the detail here, but pick up on a couple of points. There are six key points …
Big data or is the accumulation of small data the real issue?
No less an organization than McKinsey has decided to draw attention to ‘big data’ being the next big thing in a new report. As you might expect it’s well researched and well written, but it seems to start from the principle that big data is a big opportunity to use the ‘big resources’ of cloud-based computational devices to comb more data to find better answers. I am not going to argue that this isn’t true …
