The more I think about it, the more I feel that we need to rethink what “application” means. The IT industry – and therefore “application” […]
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Have we reached peak SI
Have we hit the peak for systems integrators (SIs) (just as we appear to have reached “peak oil”), and it’s all downhill from here? While […]
Continue readingWhy Enterprise 2.0 and Social Business Design might be of marginal utility to most of us
It seems that I’ve been pulled into the storm that Martijn{{1}} started{{2}}, and as I live somewhere between the Enterprise 2.0 / Social Business Design […]
Continue readingThe Scoop: The future of software
Neill Rose-Innes (CIO @ Mortgage Choice) and myself are on Mark Jones’ The Scope this week. The enterprise software market is growing again as cloud […]
Continue readingSome new rules for IT
The other week I had a go at capturing the rules of enterprise IT{{1}}. The starting point was a few of those beery discussions we […]
Continue readingDecisions are more important than data
Names and categories are important. Just look at the challenges faced by the archeology community as DNA evidence forces history to be rewritten when it […]
Continue readingIs the market for IT services and solutions shrinking or growing?
Here’s an interesting and topical question: is the market for enterprise IT services (SI, BPO, advisory et al) growing or shrinking? I’m doing the rounds […]
Continue readingWith cloud computing, the world is not flat
Does location matter? Or, put another way, is the world no longer flat? Many cloud and SaaS providers work under the assumption that where we […]
Continue readingThe benefits of SaaS (beyond low cost)
I’ve already written about why I think private clouds can be a good idea. Similar arguments can be made for SaaS, and then some. A […]
Continue readingReducing costs is not the only benefit of cloud computing & SaaS
The wisdom of the crowd seems to have decided that both cloud computing and its sibling SaaS are cost plays. You engage a cloud or […]
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