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Author Archives: Andy Mulholland
Warning – action required: key Internet changes taking place
Some say it’s difficult to get excited about infrastructure. It’s not a point of view that I recognize since infrastructure is really the foundation layer on which everything rests. If the network or Internet service goes down then you don’t have to wait more than a few minutes to start getting the calls. As we move towards using external services and placing our own enterprise go-to market model online, it all starts to look more …
So which tablet will your enterprise choose? The facts on 2011 will surprise you!
After the predictions for 2012 were posted came the reality of the 2011 market statistics. Maybe it’s not a surprise that 2011 was the year which the tablet really took off, but what is a surprise is the scale with which it took off. For me the real surprise was to see how badly Android tablets have done. Why does all of this matter? Because many enterprises are now at the tipping point where they …
Oracle introduces game-changing integration; Open Group sees a sea change in the market
Three things this week have individually and collectively really made me think I was seeing something both interesting and important. Two of them are down to Oracle and the third was at the Open Group meeting inSan Francisco. Let’s start with a press release by Oracle last week, which as far as I can see didn’t make any headlines in the industry press. I guess that’s because being the huge operation that is Oracle today, …
Is your company setting up in new countries? Then it’s a ‘green field’ opportunity!
It’s not often that there is a genuine ‘green field’ opportunity, a real chance to start from scratch without the handicap of legacy, both in systems and working practices. Oddly enough it’s happened for me several times recently and the circumstances could be more common than you would expect. In the global market more and more enterprises are moving into ‘new’, or ‘emergent’, markets for their products or services, and establishing your local operations in …
A use case to illustrate how clouds, mobility and big data create new business capabilities
Did you read last week’s CTO Blog post which noted and linked to the views of Gartner, Forrester and IDC that we would see 2012 as the year in which a really recognizable shift would be underway to deliver new front office business capabilities and that these would not necessarily be under the CIO or IT? The point being made was that these new business requirements and enabling technologies are not part of the IT …
2012: the year of unstructured technologies and market change
I was deliberately pretty conventional in my comments about technology for 2012, but after reading Gartner’s views that up to 35% of expenditure will move from IT by 2015, that 2012 will be the year of big data, and also that enterprises will struggle with these topics in 2012, I think I can afford to provide some of my own personal views. There is a big point in the Gartner predictions relating to the topic …
Mobility rather than mobile applications is making the running
The Christmas slowdown always gives me the opportunity to catch up on my reading list and I was surprised how much of it related to mobile technology. Perhaps I should explain that my systematic approach is to keep a running list of URLs with the title of the piece in topic groups. And heading the mobility list was the promising-sounding online Harvard Business Review article ‘Building a Mobile App Is Not a MobileStrategy’. I expected …
Ten Game-Changing Technology Shifts for 2012
I expect you will have read Ron Tolido’s post on seven very specific IT areas to watch in 2012 . Well, there are some things which are traditional and one of them in this industry is to start the new year with a set of predictions about which new technologies will be important in the year ahead. Well here are my thoughts on the topic that takes us beyond the current three terms that are …
Managing the business of IT, and the challenge of more ‘value’!
Launched back in the good times of the summer of 2009 with the mission of helping organizations manage the business value of IT, with a fanfare of videos from several CIOs and the support of Intel, the IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF) received a somewhat cool reception on the grounds of ‘yet another framework’. I got interested when I read an article a year later on how early adopters were talking about savings of up …
HP changes the ‘I’ for Information and the ‘T’ for Technology in IT
I attended HP Discover in Vienna with some sense of wondering what it might bring. It turned out to be the old HP back, but with a clearer understanding of their core strengths and a new energy and focus on how they are delivering them. As with all such events there was a number of bloggers present providing good coverage of the event overall including an official HP blog. But that’s enough publicity for the …
