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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Content Security and the Cloud
Following on from my previous post about storage in the cloud, the topic of content security, (aka how do you secure what is already stored in the cloud?), seemed like a natural next stop, hence this post no. 3 in the cloud series. What does it take for content to be deemed secure in the cloud and can it really be so? Many months ago, I reviewed a book (for the BCS, Chartered Institute for …
Storage and the Cloud
For this second post in the cloud series, I’d like to take a quick look at the challenges and opportunities around digital content storage in the cloud. According to Cisco’s visual networking index, by 2015 “the equivalent of an archive of all movies ever made will cross Global IP networks every 4 minutes”, or to put it another way, Global IP traffic will quadruple from 2010 to 2015 with a compound annual growth rate of 32%. …
MDM: Mastering needs clarity – getting MDM into the open
When go and talk to people about MDM, particularly on the governance side, the first question I ask is ‘what do you want to master’. Often the answer is something like ‘Customer’, a nice big Entity, nice and clear. But then the questions start and suddenly it becomes murky…. ‘Do you want to master their locations, physical, electronic and virtual’ ‘Definitely’ What about their relationship to your products and services ‘Probably’ What about the aspects …
Sharing to the Social Enterprise: Is it time to add a “Yam It” button to your site?
Since SalesForce’s annual conference DreamForce 2011 there’s been a lot of buzz around the Social Enterprise and rightly so. Social media is needed in a work environment to make the digital work surfaces relevant to employees who by now are used to being able to share with friends in their own time; why shouldn’t they be able to share as easily with colleagues duringh work hours? But the Social Enterprise is not an isolated entity. …
Business and Technical Architecture are critical to ensuring successful enterprise BPM programs
Enterprise Architecture is a discipline that aligns strategic objectives with projects and programs for change, and provides governance for those programs to ensure delivery of the objectives. BPM projects seek to “continuously optimize the organization’s processes to improve business performance against goals and objectives” Gartner Getting the balance of BPM and EA appears not to be a simple mix of disciplines and skills, over the last few months I have seen organisations struggle to scale up …
Does the railway market liberalization lead to a growth of passenger booking ?
Note: Figures are calculated for EU-27 countries group Over the 25 past years, passenger booking has never stopped to increase as well as for high-speed trains and for regional trains. Looking at the passenger-kilometer indicator for European high-speed trains, we can observe a continuous growth of 10% per year. If we are perfectly able to explain the reasons of this growth (cost increase of petrol, population increase, border openings in Europe, …), what …
What is Big Data?
2011 has been a year rich with new trends in the Business Intelligence (BI) space some of which have rocketed this year (#1): Mobile BI: Adapting analytic tools to mobile characteristics (always worn, rarely off, sometimes geographically localized, small screen, multiple versions, private usage …) In-memory analytics: Having all data in memory to improve dramatically the response time of the analytic tools, and allowing new kinds of usage Big Data: Which is…? Of course, I will …
How to stop ideas – and why.
The wheel was invented mid 4th millennium BCE. The first car appeared in 1335… historically innovation came at a slow pace because of the time it took to turn ideas into reality. This meant the new products had time to be tested, gain acceptance and be put into service for many years to come before evolving to the next big thing. But the speed of innovation went into light speed with The Dawn of The …
Digital marketing technology usage and value matrix
eConsultancy and Adobe recently collaborated to produce the Europe area Digital Marketing Insights report. As always the report was packed with some great data and advice. Two charts on marketing technology usage, impact on bottom line, and resouce intensiveness really interested me. I’ve compiled both charts into a matrix that shows where the opportunities lie for marketers who are assessing technology expenditure: From the report we can draw that conversion optimisation technology is underutilised by …
Death by Dogma versus Agile Assembly
On November 3, 2011 I presented the keynote of the Agile Open Holland Conference in Dieren. During this challenging talk I discussed the current state of affairs in agile organizations and projects and the effects of the recent strong rise in popularity of agile approaches. Let’s put it mildly: there’s a lot of work to be done. Death by dogma Almost all organizations, large and small, are turning towards agile to escape failing traditional software …
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