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GE's Enterprise Collaboration Backbone

GE's Enterprise Collaboration Backbonesupport central at geChcuk Hollis from EMC just wrote another equally laudatory blog on what looks like the same thing: http://chucksblog.typepad.com/a_journey_in_social_media/2008/07/a-humbling-expe.htmlDoes anyone know where we can get more information? Have any of the Gartners and Forresters written about Support central?The article doesn't say...what is the core OS,...

Tags: collaboration, Enterprise Collaboration Backbone, Enterprise Collaboration, General Electric Co.

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

MIA at Gartner Symposium: The new guard (aka Guard 2.0)

Strangely, at a time when the usually conservative Gartner research outfit is talking more about how businesses and organizations shouldnt so quickly rule out bleeding edge technologies, theres one group of people thats noticeably missing from the events agenda: the innovators that are bleeding that edge. For example, I...

Tags: Gartner Inc., Gartners

Blog posts 2006-10-09

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Watching Palm's August Pre numbers - it's anyone's guess

200.000in gartners number for q2 2009 smartphone sales they mention the pre under the category "others" with sales of 205.000 units so far. have a look here:http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/6756/gartner-reports-2q-2009-mobile-phone-sales/RE: Watching Palm's August Pre numbers - it's anyone's guessthe Palm Pre is an amzing Phone !!! the reviewer is a tool. i swtiched...

Tags: Sales strategy, Smart phones, Sales force management, August Pre, Palm Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-17

Gartner's conservative mid-tier ERP Magic Quadrant

'Tis the season for round robins. On this occasion Frank Scavo pokes a sharp stick in the eye of Gartner's Mid-tier ERP Magic Quadrant. Vinnie Mirchandani goes next having a poke at his alma mater...Guess what? It's my turn: First...

Tags: Quadrant, Gartner Inc., ERP, Frank Scavo, Vinnie Mirchandani, SaaS Player, Software As A Service (SaaS), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Sales Strategy, Managed Hosting, Strategy, Cloud Computing, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Software, Sales, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-11

Gartner: Skip Vista and wait for Windows 7

Gartner: Skip Vista and wait for Windows 7 Unix Pimp: Skip Gartner and ask some real expertsOnce again Gartner group releases some "No Shite Sherlock" information.Only brain dead CIO's and pointy haired bosses listen to Gartner group.Gartner will say...whatever you pay them to say. Gartner's greed or laziness has...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Gartner Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

At Open Group: business and government face similar SOA growth pains

At Open Group: business and government face similar SOA growth painsWhat's in a name?Thanks for the pointer, Joe, but its the Gardner Magic Quadrant. ;)SOA positioned as a technology?"Enterprise 2.0 ***technology applications*** at CGI, spanning social networks, user generated content, mashups, SaaS, rich internet applications RIAs ***and SOA***."And will the...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, government face, SOA, growth pain, Open Group

Discussion threads 2008-07-28

Mac hack challenge sparks (another tired) debate

Like an old grandfather clock, the controversy surrounding last months CanSecWest MacBook hijack contest just keeps on ticking, loud enough to stick in your ear but so monotonous and tiring that its near impossible to perk up and listen. Just as Apple was releasing a patch for the QuickTime flaw,...

Tags: Responsible disclosure, Punditocracy, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Oracle, Open source, Microsoft, McAfee, Hackers, Google, Firefox, Exploit code, Data theft, Cisco, Browsers, Botnets, Apple, Spyware and Adware, Viruses and Worms, Vulnerability research, Wi-Fi security, Windows Vista, Zero-day attacks

Blog posts 2007-05-08

Meet Goog-Azon, world dominator

Giants such as Yahoo, Google, eBay and Amazon and their ilk are going to control 50 percent of all consumer purchases by 2016 and wreak havoc on consumer businesses. These stats are tossed out by Gartner to get folks thinking. That...

Tags: Amazon, eBay, Enterprise 2.0, Gartner Symposium, General, Google, Innovation, Web Technology, Wired & Wireless, Yahoo

Blog posts 2007-04-27

Gartner: Wake up IT managers, you're mediocre (at best)

Technology managers are mired in mediocrity, wait for technology vendors to innovate and fear being a first mover. The result: The U.S. doesnt innovate and CIOs risk becoming extinct. That sobering message was delivered by Gartner analyst Steve Prentice. "Now is...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, General, IT Management, Innovation, Hardware Infrastructure

Blog posts 2007-04-23

Analyst: SOA may overwhelm current security measures

SOA doesnt present new security risks. The problem is that SOA multiplies existing risks to the point where they may simply overwhelm an enterprises security measures. Three security vulnerabilities of SOA, and how they can be managed There are three main security vulnerabilities that SOA presents to...

Tags: Web Services, General

Blog posts 2007-03-30

SOA is not above ROI scrutiny, but...

My latest post on SOA and ROI stirred up some interesting discussion. Should SOA -- which is not a specific technology or project, but an enterprise infrastructure -- be subject to the rigors of ROI? ZDNet colleague Dana Gardner says yes, ROI must be applied to SOA activities, and is...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), ROI/TCO, Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, ROI

Blog posts 2007-03-21

Cybersecurity group gives feds failing grades

Despite all the security debacles of last year, the federal government is still woefully behind the 8-ball when it comes to protecting sensitive information. In an annual report PDF released yesterday the Cyber Security Industry Alliance says Congress and the Bush Administration should take aggressive actions to improve information security...

Tags: Government technology, Security, U.S. Congress

Blog posts 2007-02-01

How about a really bold Windows Vista prediction?

I realize Im a little late to the party on this story, but Im just now emerging into the world again after three weeks of essentially round-the-clock work. Glad thats over. So, anyway, I missed the original report where Gartner boldly predicts that Vista is the last...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Windows Vista

Blog posts 2006-12-14

It's a wide line between IT security and physical security

There is a line between IT security and physical security. Many of the big consulting firms and integrators would like you to think it is a fine line. But I think it is a nice wide line, one that gets crossed occasionally when people consider integrating a building access system...

Tags: IT security, information technology, wide line, Spyware

Blog posts 2006-12-04

It's all virtual

Ill be moderating a couple of sessions at this weeks "SOA in Action" conference, which starts tomorrow and lasts through Thursday. (Free membership registration required.) True to the virtualization spirit of SOA, this is truly a "virtual" conference being put on by ebizQ. No wandering around Javits or Moscone Centers...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, Enporion

Blog posts 2006-11-14

SOA: business first. Web 2.0: business later

Service oriented architecture and Web 2.0 share a lot of common ground. Both invoke reusable code, both enable the rapid development of mashed-upped (read: composite) applications, and both rely on industry wide standards. But theres an important difference between the two, according to at least one analyst. The mantra you...

Tags: General, Business ROI, Standards Watch, Web Services

Blog posts 2006-11-07

Podcast: Is Carr right? Does IT not matter? Gartner attendees respond

For those of you who havent heard of Nicholas Carr, hes the guy who, back in 2003 (gosh, has it been that long?) published an essay in Harvard Business Review with the title IT Doesnt Matter. There are only a handful of people under a handful of brands that could...

Tags: Nicholas Carr, information technology

Blog posts 2006-10-12

Gartner: Think holistically (architecturally speaking) about mobile

Here, at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, Gartner analysts for the first time are coming out and saying that its time for enterprises to decide on a strategic architecture to support mobile handset computing, and to begin deployments. Until now, according to analysts William Clark and Nick...

Tags: mobile marketing, mobile

Blog posts 2006-10-10

Ballmer on Microsoft's persistence: The bone doesn't fall out of our mouth easily

Before a standing room-only audience of more than 6,000 attendees here at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, Steve Ballmer was put on the hot seat if you can call it that as two of Gartners analysts David Smith and Yvonne Genovese grilled him with a variety of questions...

Tags: Steve Ballmer

Blog posts 2006-10-10

Gartner: Spending, consumerization, and business goals should dominate CIO thinking

As expected, Gartner Managing VP and Fellow Daryl Plummer took the stage this morning with a message that the more than 6,000 IT managers in attendance here at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo need to figure out a way to allocate more of their budgets to projects that deliver business value and growth...

Tags: business growth, Gene Hall, Plummer

Blog posts 2006-10-09