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- Service-Optimized Ethernet Solutions Are Critical to Achieving Carrier Business Transformation Goals
- For the next 2 to 3 years, business model transformation will remain the single most important trend among all types of communications service providers worldwide. Whether the company is thought of today as an incumbent telco, cable company, wireless carrier or content provider, business model transformation is a critical first...
- Tags: Wireless Carrier, Telecommunications Company, Cable Company, Cable, Service-Optimized Ethernet Solution, Business Model Transformation, Telecom & Utilities, Wi-Fi, Telecommunications, Wireless
- White papers 2007-02-01
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- A Net Neutrality Solution: Opinions Wanted
- First thoughts"the incumbents fought it tooth and nail"Same thing happened in the last 4 industrial revolutions!I'm broadly in favour of your improvements ... with a few caveats ... and will look at the 2 papers you plugged, sorry referenced ;-)"Users should be concerned that the Internet services they pay for...
- Tags: Fiber optics, Net Neutrality, Net Neutrality Solution
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Enterprise 2.0: what a crock
- I've been following the so-called Enterprise 2.0 meme for some time and you know what? It's a crock. Forget Dion Hinchcliffe's pretty failure pictures or Mike Krigsman's guest post of failure. Examine the basics and look back at history. Some years back I was a hack attending...
- Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- Lean IT: The Time for Transformation Is Now
- In today's economic environment, reducing costs and increasing efficiency should be priority one for financial institutions. To assist in this process, many institutions are investigating opportunities to create more value for customers by eliminating or reducing non-value-adding activities. Lean processing, long a staple in manufacturing, provides this opportunity for increasing...
- Tags: Information Technology, International Data Group, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Finance
- White papers 2009-08-01
- Startup wants to help newspapers but (get this!) news execs need proof of problem first
- There was a piece in the New York Times this morning that, at the heart of the story, was about a start-up called Attributor, which is launching an ad-revenue sharing service for those who create original content newspapers and those who copy and re-post it some blogs and websites. ...
- Tags: Revenue, Newspaper, Piracy, Operational Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Enterprise architecture heads north: report from Open Group
- John Meyer of The Open Group sent some detailed dispatches from the group’s 23rd Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference, being held this week in Toronto. Thanks to John for a great job summarizing many of the key insights coming from the conference -- some highlights from day one are summarized below:...
- Tags: Open Group, Enterprise Architect, Electronic Arts Inc., Information Technology, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- To the Moon: The Integrators
- The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return...
- Tags: Spacecraft, NASA, Mission, Computer, IBM Corp., UNIVAC, Productivity, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Dell's analyst meeting: Looking for the big vision
- Dell's analyst powwow on Tuesday is expected to focus heavily on storage and cost cutting, but lack any big transformation plans---although many observers are itching to hear more about the company's acquisition strategy and vision. Caris analyst Robert Cihra sums it up well. Dell has been focusing...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., PC, Analyst, Vision, Cihra, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows 7, Storage, Desktops, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Cisco Releasing Sophisticated Collaboration Framework to Accelerate Your Business Value
- Cisco are releasing a 58 page report which details their 900 percent return on investment in collaboration and social networking and which details how they have successfully increased productivity, innovation and growth. The Report, 'Creating a Collaborative Enterprise: a Guide to Accelerating Business...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Collaboration Framework, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Why SOA really, really matters in a cloud computing world
- Back in early 2006, I published a piece on the impact of delivering SOA-ready services via online, on-demand venues such as online marketplaces. Here is an update on the piece, revised to meet today's cloud computing realities. Since I wrote the first piece, we have seen many of the principles...
- Tags: On-demand, SOA, Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Web Services, Managed Hosting, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- The case for a Global Digital Public Library Network policy
- The case for a Global Digital Public Library Network policyI vote KallmanAt last! A decent proposal on ZDNET, more from this guest blogger please. Of course I would think that, having suggested a Global Digital Emporium instead of The Pirate Bay, herein."The good of the library outweighs the interests of...
- Tags: Strategy, Operational accounting, premium service, digital content, content provider, Big Content
- Discussion threads 2009-05-23
- Understanding SAP's Business byDesign SaaS strategy
- Understanding SAP's Business byDesign SaaS strategyyes, butyou heard some of the same comments I did at Sapphire. The CFO has the product on a tight leash in terms of qualifying new customers. They have old filters for a new computing paradigm. Not sure if they will ever find this model...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, Service-oriented architecture (SOA), cloud computing, Enterprise software, strategy, SAP AG, software-as-a-service, SAP Business byDesign SaaS strategy, SAP Business ByDesign
- Discussion threads 2009-05-16
- NEXT09: deconstructing the enterprise gulf
- Attending NEXT09 was a breath of fresh air for me. As seems to be the way, there's always a good showing by controversial polemicists. You won't for example get two more strident and different speakers than Jeff Jarvis and Andrew Keen. As an enterprisey guy, Keen's assessment...
- Tags: Google Inc., Social Computing, Conference, CODA, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
- SLA's and the Real World
- There's a solid post by Jevon McDonald (who has long questioned whether there is a viable 'Enterprise 2.0' market) this weekend, titled 'Understanding the role of Enterprise 2.0 and moving towards a Social Business' on the 'Fast Forward' blog, which is focused around the FAST search...
- Tags: SLA, Information Technology, Enterprise 2.0, Jevon, Global Technology Services Division, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- America's greenest town?
- It's hard to get past the coincidental. This town is named GREENSburg, Kansas. Is this fate set in motion more than a century ago? Serendipity? Some hidden screenwriter have a hand in all this? Greensburg was just another shrinking town surrounded by ever-larger,...
- Tags: Kansas, Town, Tornado, NEW Greensburg, Food & Beverage, Web Site Development, Manufacturing, Internet, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-19
- BLU AGE Build - Agile Model Transformation 3.2.7 (Windows)
- BLUAGE is a Built-On Eclipse application generator, offering an integrated environment for UML models' execution and automated transformation into JAVA and .NET applications. BLUAGE Build module is a MDA compliant workbench for UML models elaboration, debugging and transformation (PIM2PSM) and business application's source code generation (PSM2TEXT). BLUAGE Build is designed...
- Tags: Transformation, Microsoft Windows, BLU AGE Software, BLUAGE, BLUAGE Build, BLUAGE Build Module, UML, Model Driven Architecture, Programming Languages, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2009-04-07
- QPR ProcessGuide Xpress 8.0.1.110 (Windows)
- PR ProcessGuide Xpress provides business users with a powerful tool for exposing, analyzing, developing, documenting, improving and communicating business process information. It focuses on the business user who is seeking to create and maintain end to end process model hierarchies, rather than isolated presentations of flowcharts. QPR ProcessGuide Xpress...
- Tags: Business Process, Microsoft Windows, Modeling, QPR Software, PR ProcessGuide Xpress, QPR ProcessGuide Xpress, Research & Development, Operational Planning, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2009-03-11
- Green is still Gold (But Beware of the Politics of Gesture)
- Foolhardy it may be to go out on a limb here to take on my boss (in this carnation I mean my editor, Larry Dignan) and a force of nature that is my fellow ZDNET blogger Dennis Howlett but I have to disagree with both on the subject of viability of the green market....
- Tags: Sustainability, Oracle Corp., Gesture, Dennis, Hugh McLeod, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2009-02-28
- AMD CIO: Key to success is fusion of business acumen and tech innovation
- The intersection and fusion of business insight and technological innovation is the key to creating successful new business models, said AMD Chief Information Officer Ahmed Mahmoud today in the keynote of Wharton Business School's 13th annual business technology conference, "Future Unleashed," in Philadelphia. In a "fireside chat"...
- Tags: Innovation, Information Technology, IT Professional, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Technology, Strategy, Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-27
- SaaS: The supply management market’s economic stimulus?
- 2008 was a very strong year for supply management vendors, despite the dismal global economy. The market grew 9%, reaching $3.0B in spending for software and services. Most buyers focused on improving processes in sourcing, spend analysis, procurement, contract management, settlement, and supplier performance management. A closer...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, ROI, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Roi/Tco, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Mickey North Rizza
- Blog posts 2009-02-26
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