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Knowledge/Information centricity vs document centricity

Knowledge/Information centricity vs document centricityIt's ok, David...Dan misuses the term "deconstruct"...as well.There seems to be a penchant for media types to expropriate terms philsophopy: paradigm Thomas Kuhn, deconstruct (Derrida, Heidegger) amonng others. Y'all think it makes ya sound real cool! But we (who know better...ex-philosophy majors) forgive, you...

Tags: Strategy, centricity, Wittgenstein

Discussion threads 2006-05-26

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The Leo Apotheker Legacy Starts Now

The news that SAP is delaying the roll-out of Business ByDesign – and that its last quarter, while decent, failed to meet analyst estimates – is the perfect preamble to this post: With Leo Apotheker slated to assume to mantle of SAP by the end of the year, his...

Tags: On-demand, SAP AG, TCO, Sales, Leo Apotheker, Leo, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-04-30

Comparing Amazon's and Google's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Offerings

The announcement this week that Google released a beta version of a robust cloud computing platform called Google App Engine that lets anyone build apps on Google's renowned and highly scalable infrastructure underscored a key trend in the software industry today. Namely that software platforms are moving from their traditional...

Tags: Google Inc., Platform, PaaS, Amazon.com Inc., Cloud Computing, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-04-11

DataPortability.org Workgroup is still born

DataPortability.org Workgroup is still bornData licenses are under discussionI don't know whether you'd consider my own arguments regarding data licensing as cogent, but issues of data, social networks and the law have been raised and are under discussion in the group. See http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2008/01/data_licenses_for_social_netwo.phpWhile many of the points you make are...

Tags: Social networking, DataPortability.org Workgroup

Discussion threads 2008-01-09

OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now impotent 'Foundation'

When in mid-October 2007, the OpenDocument Foundation (ODf, yes, that's a little "f" that's not to be confused with the OASIS- and 400-member strong OpenDocument Alliance-backed big F-ODF: the OpenDocument Format) announced that the World Wide Web Consoritum (W3C)-backed Common Document Format CDF was the heir-apparent to what it believed...

Tags: W3C, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., OpenDocument Foundation, ODf, Matusow, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-29

GE Healthcare buys a Web strategy

GE Healthcare buys a Web strategyNewsflash! GE enters the 21st Century!Web based PACS have been around for a while. Philips recognized this when they acquired Stentor and re-branded Stentor as "iSite" years ago, while GE was still trying to plug Centricity their current proprietary PACS. iSite...

Tags: Channel management, HEALTHCARE, iSite, General Electric Co., Web, GE Healthcare, health care

Discussion threads 2007-10-14

Michael Dell talks turnaround strategy

At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., Dell CEO Michael Dell talks to Gartner research analysts about the company's renewed focus on customer-centricity, such as the company's plan to introduce new notebooks and a move into on-demand streaming.

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Gartner Inc., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Personal Technology, CEO, Strategy, Management

Videos 2007-10-11

2007 Comparative Assessment Methodology Process for BPEL

By following the BPEL standard, the choice of which BPEL engine to use should not affect interoperability of the orchestrated services or the reuse of the BPEL models or designs. As DoD moves toward Net Centricity and Services-Based and Service-Oriented Architectures SOAs, the use of BPEL for composition and orchestration...

Tags: BPEL, Active Endpoints, Business Process Automation, Web Services, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2007-09-11

Google vs. MySpace: Is YouTube doomed?

Jeff Jarvis ordained $150 billion market cap Google “God,” last week, no joke. In January, he publicly thanked YouTube, for “changing the world and society,” in the guise of a Chad Hurley interview at the Davos World Economic Forum.Is the Google-YouTube Kool Aid spiked?Apparently not: “Did Murdoch just KO Google?”...

Tags: MySpace, Google Inc., YouTube Inc., video, Web

Blog posts 2007-03-26

Can Google crack $74 billion TV ad market?

Will the third time be the charm for Google, the TV advertising charm that is? Google CEO Eric Schmidt has a fantasy, a world wide advertising domination fantasy: “The long-term fantasy is we walk up to you and you give us, say, $10 million and well completely allocate it...

Tags: Television, Google Software Applications, Advertising, Google, TV

Blog posts 2007-02-26

Google vs. Microsoft: David and Goliath?

Google is supremely confident in what it believes is its rightful destiny to “organize the world’s information.” Google takes its “mission” literally: For Google, the world’s information includes the information of all the world’s inhabitants, and the information of all the world’s businesses. I recently underscored how the ramifications...

Tags: Enterprise, Google, Google Software Applications, Microsoft

Blog posts 2007-02-22

Yahoo vs. Google: Why Panama is the wrong destination

Do the marketers rule at Yahoo, while the engineers rule at Google? Fred Vogelstein believes he has “empirical evidence” that such is the case.Vogelstein begins his Wired magazine piece: “Terry Semel was pissed,” in bold for emphasis.Vogelstein looks back to Yahoo vs. Google in 2002, and apparently has a pictorial...

Tags: Advertising, Search, Google, Yahoo, Google Software Applications, Yahoo! Inc.

Blog posts 2007-01-17

Scoring Google on quality

In “The Google riddle: ‘organized’, ‘useful’ but impossible to comprehend” I dissect Google’s cheery “Welcome to AdWords” marketing speak, challenging Google’s assertions that “AdWords puts you in complete control of your spending.”Google search advertising is a costly Pandora’s box that continuously increases in complexity, opaqueness and Google centricity.Google has an...

Tags: advertisement, Google Inc., Google AdWords, Google&rsquo, s

Blog posts 2006-12-26

Tablets, biometrics disrupting the status quo at your local doctor's office

After some much deserved-nagging by my wife to get some questionable spots on my skin checked out, I finally headed into my new primary physicians office to get a referral to a dermatologist. Little did I know the technological treat I was in for. For a primary physicians office (actually,...

Tags: General, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Hardware Infrastructure, tablet, Mobile, Wired &, Wireless, Motorola Q Review

Blog posts 2006-12-15

Digital ID World recap: final thoughts

Its now almost a full month since Digital ID World is over and done, and my thoughts about what happened are finally starting to coalesce. "Starting" - I said, and this post I hope reflects that beginning. The primary "big move" that Im coming away with is the idea that...

Tags: metaphor, identity

Blog posts 2006-10-09

MIT Tech Review editor: IT matters most, but there are other techs to watch

MIT Tech Review editor: IT matters most, but there are other techs to watchwhat about "accidents"?...not just intentional use?The response on the most "dangerous" is right...as far as it goes, but presumes that the technology is INTENTIONALLY implemented. There is the real possibility, and I think greater one, of...

Tags: Nanotechnology, Strategy, IT Matters, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, media, information technology

Discussion threads 2006-10-03

The Road to Customer-Centricity: Driving Success in Tomorrow's Banking Business

Consolidation in the U.S. financial services industry has created new opportunities for de novo banks. These banks are uniquely positioned to meet market demand for personalized, customer-oriented banking services. In the face of intense competition, how can a de novo bank drive sustainable growth? In short, it can build a...

Tags: Bank, Fiserv Inc., Financial Services, Banking

White papers 2006-08-31

Tailoring DoDAF for Service Oriented Architectures: A Recommended Guide

This paper provides guidance on how to use the Department of Defense Architecture Framework DoDAF to describe a Service-Oriented Architecture SOA. With acceptance of Network-Centric Warfare NCW and "Net-centricity", the Department of Defense DoD is moving towards a dynamic producer/consumer environment. SOA is an architectural design approach to application integration...

Tags: Mitre Corp., SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2006-08-10

EMC ups ante in applying DRM to text

Last week, I wrote about a strange DRM-esque message that Outlook displayed after I opened an e-mail with a PDF attachement. In all my years of using Outlook, I had never seen this message before and I had no idea why it was showing it to me now. ...

Tags: EMC Corp.

Blog posts 2006-08-07

Implement CRM or Become Customer-Centric?: Companies Face a Choice

Are CRM and customer-centricity are mutually exclusive? No. The findings of a new research study titled "Customers Say What Companies Don't Want to Hear," draw a clear distinction between CRM as it's commonly practiced and customer centricity. Customers participating in the study, which assesses which company behaviors trigger positive purchase...

Tags: CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software

White papers 2006-07-01