Storm vs Cloud
Once again, Mother Nature dashes the best laid plans of men. The Friday storm took down Amazon’s cloud data center in Virginia (once again). The storm disrupted power supplies for much of the greater...
View ArticleTablets Mean Changes for the Enterprise
Plenty of hype has been offered as tablet computers (first the iPhone, then the iPad) arrived, sold in enormous numbers, and slowed PC sales. Software vendors were quick to deliver Apps – partly to...
View ArticleBookmark, Link, Search
[Highlights of CEO Keynote at HarrisData’s 2013 User Conference.] Step away from the vendor hype wars over cloud computing and look at what the cloud means to users. Anything a user wants to do will be...
View ArticleWhat is Modern?
Rumors have SAP joining the stampede to HTML5 based user interfaces. To get there, SAP will build a new platform, replacing the $4 billion platform underneath Business-By-Design. HTML5 is the current...
View ArticleA Modern Transaction Architecture
Consider the Payroll application as typically designed. The object is to convert hours worked into paychecks while calculating taxes, benefit deductions, and garnishments. The work flow is broken into...
View ArticleThe Web of Nouns
Web of Things is all the rage, where your smart phone starts your car and schedules servicing, or the refrigerator reminds you to pick up milk on the way home. In the near future things will connect to...
View ArticleMashup Enterprise Services
Nostalgic for a late 60s console entertainment center complete with an integrated turntable, tube amp, radio, TV, and stereo speakers? Consoles were big pieces of furniture, the focal point of the room...
View ArticleCloud Vendors Spend Too Much on Sales and Marketing
Look anywhere, and it seems the cloud is the answer you were looking for. How much of this is real, how much venture capital hype? Phil Wainewright interviewed Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu and found evidence...
View ArticleYou Can’t See What’s Behind the Cloud
Cloud: 3. a dim or obscure area in something otherwise clear or transparent. The entire information technology industry is moving to the cloud. What, if anything, have they done differently once they...
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How to Triple Your Productivity without Hiring Additional Staff and Similar...
Improved productivity is a given of marketing claims in technology. The marketers rarely make clear what the basis is for the claimed improvement. Saying you are three times as productive calculating...
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