Posts Tagged: enterprise software

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Oct 08

Server as a Service

In addition to Sun Microsystem’s MySQL, Oracle is now available through Amazon’s Web Services. One has to wonder why you would ever buy a physical database server again. This takes SaaS to a whole new level: Instead of Software as a Service, this is Server as a Service. One of the listed benefits:

Quickly and easily add computing capacity as your requirements change. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as you need.

I know it’s geeky, and I’ve probably lost most of my readers already (thanks for getting this far!), but doesn’t that sound really really nice?

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Aug 08

Data Accuracy as a KPI

IBM Data Governance Council predicted that

  1. Data value will become an asset that the CFO reports on the balance sheet.
  2. The CIO will be responsible for data quality, which will become a new IT key performance indicator (KPI).

David Vellante over at Internet Evolution wrote up an insightful analysis, Your Budget Could Hang on Your Wiki.

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8
Aug 08

iPhone is the new Blackberry

AppleInsider has an in-depth analysis of how the iPhone is fitting into the mobile handset market. As an Apple-focused site they are (of course) pro-iPhone. But if you know me, you know I’m OK with that. To be honest though, I find it a lot easier to understand and decipher ”the real story” when I know ahead of time the bias of the author. They said regarding BlackBerry: [emphasis added]

Apple’s iPhone is weaker in messaging than the more mature BlackBerry platform, but stronger everywhere else, with a desktop class standards-based web browser (providing access to corporate IT web apps), advanced iPod media playback features, and an integrated store featuring everything from games to media to productivity apps. It will be much easier for Apple to match RIM’s messaging features [...] than for RIM to clean up the rest of its OS, which currently just stinks.

Especially considering that the iPhone natively supports Microsoft Exchange (ie, Outlook). Even Blackberries don’t integrate directly – they need the separate (and expensive) Blackberry Enterprise Server.

If you are interested and have time, I’d recommend the 4-page read.

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Jul 08

CDC Software Withdraws IPO

This is just a little news blip on our favorite software company, CDC Software (makers of Pivotal):

Chinese software developer CDC Corp said it filed with U.S. regulators to withdraw the planned initial public offering of its software arm, CDC Software, in view of the downturn in the U.S. stock market.

Doesn’t look like the last year has been that great for them. More finance info over at Google Finance.

 

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Jun 08

Instant Messaging causes Less Interruption

Matthew E. May, who wrote The Elegant Solution Toyota’s Formula for Mastering Innovation, reports that:

“researchers found that workers who used instant messaging on the job reported less interruption than colleagues who did not.”

Which is absolutely amazing because it’s the exact opposite of conventional wisdom. I can’t even tell you how many people I’ve heard shoot down IM because it’s “more ways for people to interrupt me”.

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