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- Waking up to the full extent of virtualization options
- While doing my morning expedition through the wilds of news sites, blogs and, of course, comic strip sites, I came across something by Laura McCabe, a partner at Hurwitz and Associates, titled "What is Virtualization, and Why Should You Care?" While Laura's comments are useful, she didn't try to present...
- Tags: Software Technology, Environment, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- Fighting off antitrust, Google says it's not dominant
- The Washington Post is running a piece from The Big Money's Jeff Horwitz with the amusing headline "Google Says It's Actually Quite Small." Google, Hurwitz says, is attempting to redefine itself out of market dominance. With its absolute dominance of search advertising plain for all to see...
- Tags: Google Inc., Internet Search Advertising, Antitrust, Corporate Law, Search, Security, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-07
- Content Management Meets Text Analytics, Featuring Hurwitz & Associates
- Boundless information growth has created some tough challenges for most organizations. Substantial data volumes make it difficult to quickly find what is relevant or valuable, and create a composite view of market trends, competitive landscapes, or customer feedback. Text analytics technology can help organizations cull through their massive amounts of...
- Tags: Analytics, Content Management, Information Growth, Financial Planning, Finance
- Webcasts 2009-04-09
- Fixing failure: Shatter the technical glass ceiling
- Projects fail because IT and business people don't communicate. This gap between business requirements and IT execution remains alive and well, according to new research. ComputerWorld UK summarizes the issue: The survey of CIOs, senior IT managers and department heads across 500...
- Tags: CIO, Information Technology, ComputerWorld UK, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- News to know: ICANN hacked; IE flaw; OpenSuse 11; Hyper-V; iPhone 3G
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Zero-day flaw haunts Internet Explorer Tech heavyweights launch security response consortium ICANN and IANA's domains hijacked by Turkish hacking group Security researchers hack the London underground train for free ride Matthew...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, ICANN, Novell OpenSuse, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Flaw, 3G, Cellular Phones, Healthcare, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Industry analyst Judith Hurwitz: "Break a lot of glass" [podcast]
- In this podcast, distributed computing analyst, Judith Hurwitz, explains why so many IT projects fail. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Information Technology, SOA, Judith Hurwitz, Judith, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Podcasts, Strategy, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Analyst: Resist the temptation of well-integrated SOA suites
- Can a vendor's offering be too well integrated for its own good? Definitely, when it comes to SOA. Packaged SOA defeats the very purpose of SOA Service-oriented architecture is not meant to be "bought" the same way a packaged ERP or CRM system is...
- Tags: SOA, Judith, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
- Twitter's true magic
- Looking at the Twitter homepage, one might assume it's little more than a self-indulgent dumping ground for trivial details about the activities of complete strangers. Journalists, including the Houston Chronicle's Loren Steffy, and industry analysts, such as top-flight enterprise software commentator, Judith Hurwitz, sometimes draw this conclusion....
- Tags: Twitter, Action, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-01-05
- Project portfolio management and IT governance
- Can project portfolio management PPM help prevent IT failures? To find out, I spoke with David Hurwitz, Vice President of Marketing, and Steve Romero, IT Governance Evangelist, from CA's Clarity PPM solutions group. Implementing IT governance is important for organizations charged with overseeing groups of projects. Although...
- Tags: IT Governance, Information Technology, Problem, Project Portfolio Management, IT Governance Institute, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-12-21
- Checking the pulse of enterprise social computing
- At todays' LeWeb 3, Marc Canter asked a panel drawn from Google, Netvibes, Plum and the European Energy Forum whether we're ready for radical change in the context of bringing the social to software. In his pre-session blog post, Marc said: The paradigm of social networking works great for...
- Tags: Social Computing, Social Networking, Open Source, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- SAP: 'customizing is out, extending is in'
- SAP says that 'customizing is out, extending is in.' Sounds good. Now what the heck does that mean? SAP is ready for SOA. Is SOA ready for SAP? That's the word out of this week's SAP Influencer Summit, reported by fellow...
- Tags: SAP AG, SOA, Michael, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- SAP Influencer Summit: SOA grows up
- I'm spending a couple of days at the SAP Influencer Summit, an invitation-only event for approximately 500 key SAP partners, bloggers, analysts, user group leaders, academics, and the press. According to Mike Prosceno, Vice President for Marketplace Communications, the Influencer Summit is intended to facilitate "networking and relationship building,...
- Tags: SAP AG, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Product Development, Business Structures, Tools & Techniques, Web Services, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, Research & Development, Business Operations, Finance, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
- "Old software never dies"
- Software analyst Judith Hurwitz makes an interesting point about Oracle's aggressive acquisition strategy, which has moved the company front and center into the middleware and enterprise applications business: I have to give them credit for swooping in and buying their way into a leadership position. While it is hard...
- Tags: Software, Tools & Techniques, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-11-25
- Leading consultant takes a swipe at Oracle's Big Bang approach
- There can be no overnight wonders from software -- even from one of the world's largest software companies. In a new blog post at her consultancy's site, Judith Hurwitz talks about the "Oracle Syndrome," which is equivalent to Big Bang SOA. "The reality is that Oracle is...
- Tags: Innovation, Software, Oracle Corp., Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-11-25
- Hooray! 'SOA' voted most 'confusing acronym of the year'
- I guess Mrs. Pedrick, my eighth-grade English teacher, would not be happy to hear that I regularly discuss and promote and disseminate the world's most confusing acronym. But alas, 'SOA' has made the top of this year's list from the Global Language Monitor. Not just the top...
- Tags: Acronym, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- Leveraging Information for Innovation and Competitive Advantage
- Think differently about information. Information is not just stored in your customer databases, file systems, content management systems or applications (e.g., ERP, CRM, and SCM). Information resides in many different repositories including custom applications, e-mails, digital images and reports. You need to make sure you are leveraging all your relevant...
- Tags: Innovation, Competitive Advantage, Information, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Content Management, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Management
- White papers 2007-04-23
- It was inevitable: 'SOA for Dummies' on the way
- Robin Bloor informs us that he, along with Hurwitz Group colleagues Judith Hurwitz and Carol Baroudi, have been commissioned by John Wiley & Sons Publishing to write “SOA for Dummies.” Bloor says he and the others approached Wiley, publisher of the "Dummies" series, with the idea. "They would probably...
- Tags: Robin Bloor, Dummies
- Blog posts 2006-03-16
- A five-second vendor wrap-up
- Around the SOA world in five seconds: Robin Bloor of Hurwitz and Associates opined about a recent IBM SOA presentation and provided his view on where the leading vendors stand in the game: IBM: Big Blue "clearly knows where most of the SOA bodies...
- Tags: SOA
- Blog posts 2006-02-09
- Who's killing the software industry the fastest?
- Which is killing the software industry as we know it faster -- open source or SOA?Rikki Kirzner, partner with Hurwitz Group, points to open source as the great disrupter, noting that "the commoditizing force of open source software threatens the revenue streams of many ISVs." Open source is...
- Tags: software, open source, SOA
- Blog posts 2006-02-01
- Politics, business, technology -- in THAT order
- In earlier posts, I put forth the paradox that those that do SOA probably don't need it. Organizations that intelligently embrace SOA probably would thrive anyway without it, since they are likely to be forward-thinking with many other things as well. Organizations that could really benefit from SOA because their...
- Tags: Hurwitz Group Inc., SOA
- Blog posts 2005-08-31
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