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Monthly Archives: October 2008
There is no such thing as a phase two
When developing enterprise 2.0 solutions there is no such thing as a phase two in which you can do product enhancements that are left out in phase one. If you did not start with a proper enhanced product or service within your E2.0 environment that has value for your colleagues or employees, you will deliver a bunch of code that can be redirected to the scrapheap.
SaaS for enterprises
Lately, I am thinking a lot about Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). I can easily see the benefits of SaaS, which I will not discuss here. But I have concerns too, especially in using SaaS on an enterprise scale. Currently, using SaaS means accessing applications (e.g. a word processor, or a spreadsheet application) through the web. The benefits of that are easy enough to grasp. I have more difficulties grasping this on a bigger scale: using SaaS on …
The public sector openness
My first post here on the blog was titled “The disruptiveness of the open walled telecom garden” and now I venture into another topic concerning the benefits of being open. I suspect a pattern! I want to discuss openness in the public sector. The area is highly interesting due to two main points. The public sector is not a profit hunting organisation – hence they should, from a “business” perspective, be quite ready to share …
Rock & Roll consulting, Web 2.0 style
It has to be said: people have a way too romantic idea about consultants going to conferences. True, we are spoiled by the vendors (and our company), we stay in nice hotels, meet great people, food is usually pretty good but trust me… it’s pretty hard work! I recently visited the SAP TechEd 2008 conference in Berlin where we did a social media experiment and only a week after the conference I can say that …
Clean Clouds – how to secure utility computing
So, I can use my home broadband which gives me a reliable 10Mbps for £10 per month … or I can use a corporate network which gives me a slightly less reliable 100Kbps for £200 per month or more … Most corporations are don’t build great IT infrastructures but, luckily, they don’t have to, any more than they have to generate their own power or build their own road networks. As the above comparison shows, …
Write once, REALLY run everywhere
Remember Sun’s slogan for Java: write once, run everywhere? Because of the platform independency of Java, a Java application will indeed run on many platforms without any rewrite or recompile. Java is mostly used on the server side of things but it is hardly used on the desktop. I doubt that JavaFX will change that. On the other hand, Java is huge on mobile devices (Symbian). All in all, Sun has done an impressive job …
SAP TechEd 2008 Berlin – Live event coverage!
Practice what you preach, eat your own dog food and drink your own champagne. While we are not a dog food manufacturer, champagne house nor religion (really?), it has no use to advice clients on how to use innovative technologies if we are not adopting them as well. I’m leaving this weekend for SAP TechEd in Berlin (#sapteched08) and with a couple of fellow Web 2.0 strategy consultants at Capgemini we were brainstorming how we …
FirstTuesday: The Entrepreneur’s Ball
On Tuesday evening, I had the distinctly heady experience of speaking to an audience of some 100 Entrepreneurs, Investors and Service Providers in an event to “Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of UK’s Internet Industry”. This informal event, organised by the eponymous FirstTuesday.org, consisted of three brief panel discussions (focusing on the past, present and future of the Internet), and interspersed with severe bouts of furious networking (the primary goal of the event) between attendees.
Testers 2.0
In less than a minute, a YouTube video hails a paradigm change in the perception of Testers.
Mashups can be made by your grandma
The outcome is that web developers will be obsolete in the near future.
Winner IT industry blogger of the Year
