There's three questions you need to ask yourself before you invest a large chunk of cash in some enterprise application: Can I use something, rather […]
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Is Salesforce.com already legacy IT?
The more I think about it, the more I feel that we need to rethink what “application” means. The IT industry – and therefore “application” […]
Continue readingHave 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 readingTaxonomies 1, Semantic Web (and Linked Data) 0
I’m not a big fan of Semantic Web{{1}}. For something that has been around for just over ten years — and which has been aggressively […]
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 […]
Continue readingWhat we’re doing today is not what we did yesterday
The business of IT has changed radically in the last few years. Take Walmart for example. In the 80s Walmart laid the foundations for its […]
Continue readingThe Value of Enterprise Architecture
Note: Updated with the slides and script from 2011’s lecture. Is Enterprise Architecture in danger of becoming irrelevant? And if so, what can we do […]
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