Cloud computing, so much more than multi-tenancy
Photo credit: Katharine Kimball via Flickr I settled in for one of Marc Benioff’s legendary two-hour-long CloudForce keynotes in London yesterday morning (an abridged, snappier version of the...
View ArticleIs the Future of SOA Open Source?
It’s a truism that you don’t have to buy software to deliver on SOA, which is primarily a style of technical architecture and business strategy and isn’t really something you can go out and purchase....
View ArticlePeople-centric IT for a new decade
Continuing my review of emerging trends that are going to be big in 2010, here’s one that I suspect will be a defining theme for IT throughout the coming decade. In one of my favorite postings of 2009...
View ArticleMonday’s Musings: Next Generation CIO’s Face 11 Skill Shifts In A Disruptive...
The Era Of CIO Dictatorships Ends With 2009 Less than 5 years ago, the mighty CIO controlled his or her organization’s destiny by shepherding multi-million dollar projects and ruling with a fist....
View ArticleSecurity risks of multi-tenancy
One of the concerns expressed by both users and experts attending Cloud Computing Congress in London this week was the risk of data being exposed to third parties in a multi-tenant environment. There...
View ArticleTuesday’s Tip: Understanding The Many Flavors of Cloud Computing and SaaS
Confusion Continues With Cloud Computing And SaaS Definitions Coincidence or just brilliance must be in the air as three esteemed industry colleagues, Phil Wainewright, Michael Cote, and James...
View ArticleWorkday and the unspoken benefits of SaaS
Throughout a 20-minute customer presentation at yesterday’s UK launch of Workday, I was intrigued to hear not a single mention of the word SaaS — or even cloud computing. Johnson Odesoh, group IT...
View ArticleVMforce.com redefines the PaaS landscape
I must confess that Salesforce.com has surprised me today with the launch of VMforce.com — and in a good way. For a while, I’ve been thinking that open source platforms were the chink in the armor of...
View ArticleMonday’s Musings: Why Next Gen Apps Must Improve Existing Activity Streams
Upcoming Data Deluge Threatens The Effectiveness Of Activity Streams Activity streams, best popularized by consumer apps such as Facebook and Twitter, have emerged as the Web 2.0 visualization paradigm...
View ArticleConnecting Digital Strategy with Social Business and Next-Gen Mobility
How do the overarching digital strategies of today’s 21st century enterprise relate to social business and smart mobility? It’s a question I’ve been asked more and more frequently as these two major...
View ArticleMarket Maker 1:1: Steve Miranda, Oracle Fusion Applications Update – The...
The Inside Story On Oracle Fusion Apps At The End of 2012 Constellation sat down with Steve Miranda, Oracle’sExecutive Vice President of Oracle Applications Product Development to discuss the state of...
View ArticleNews Analysis: SAP Business Suite on HANA
Photo credit: Michael Krigsman In a global announcement in Palo Alto, New York and Frankfurt, SAP’s top executives Dr. Vishal Sikka, Rob Enselin, Jim Haggeman Snabe, and legendary founder and chairman...
View ArticleMusings: What Organizations Want From Mobile
Mobile Is The Entry Point To Digital Business Mobile is a key entry point into digital transformation and digital business initiatives. Along with cloud, social, big data/analytics, and video, mobile...
View ArticleEvent Report: SAP Australian User Group Summit Highlights Systematic Concerns...
Australian Users Concerns About SAP Similar To Other Global Users Over 500 Australian SAP users gathered between September 8th and 9th, 2014 at the Sydney Hilton for the annual user conference....
View ArticleNews Analysis: Inside the First Industry-Specific Mobile Apps by the IBM...
The IBM-Apple Partnership Achieves First Milestones On December 10th, IBM and Apple announced the first wave of industry-specific enterprise solutions as part of the IBM MobileFirst for iOS...
View ArticleResearch Report: Inside The 2015 Boardroom Priorities (Parts 1 & 2)
Boardrooms In Market Leader And Fast Follower Organizations Rapidly Take Action To Address the Digital Chasm Ahead Constellation Research surveyed over 200 CXO’s and identified 10 board room...
View ArticleHow To Plan For SAP’s S/4 HANA Upgrade And Contract Negotiations Strategy...
Launch Of SAP S/4 Provides Catalyst For Organizations To Update Their Next Gen Apps Strategy The February 3rd, 2015 New York City SAP S/4 launch event brought a positive closure for customers seeking...
View ArticleResearch Preview: Digital Transformation Services Take Center Stage For 2015
Constellation State Of The State Report: Digital Transformation Services Take Center Stage For 2015 The latest Constellation Research state of the state report explores the impact of digital...
View Article7 Questions to Help Look Strategically at IoT
There are still many people who view the Internet of Things as focused on ‘the things’ and not the data they provide. Granted there are definitely some issues with the thing itself, but there are also...
View ArticleEnterprise architecture in a world of automated change
I posted the other day on the Enterprise CIO blog an entry about the CIO’s role and the self-driving business that got me thinking about the Enterprise architect and the processes (e.g., TOGAF). There...
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