The move from Plan, Build, Run IT operations to a Demand Supply IT organization, is not a strategic move; it represents the complete commoditization and consumerization of IT. Beyond instituting an ERP system specific to running IT, there exists one more solution which will prove to disrupt the IT industry and in the process give…
The Enterprise IT organization is about to transform, into a services organization. Not by its choice, but because the business is forcing its hand. Business units are engaging cloud services with or without IT’s involvement. The decision making power has shifted from IT to the business. IT organizations will have to evolve their operations to…
For the last two years a colleague of mine Scott Skellenger (Sr. Director of IT for Illumina) has been professing that the next generation business suite won’t be a traditional suite at all. He has been carefully watching the integration-as-a-service market and believed that the new world of business applications will be where business units…
In a reversal of direction, SAP cloud strategies are ripping pages out of the Informatica cloud strategy handbook. The two camps of thought within SAP finally emerge in the public eye. ByD versus HANA cloud app approach have been a hotly contested subject within SAP. Selecting Lars to run their cloud practice is an acknowledgement…
The goal of this three part series is to describe the strategy and framework for constructing an ecosystem from cloud services to best serve your enterprise. It’s also a discussion about the future role of cloud service providers and how the end user will become ultimately empowered. Why pursue a cloud ecosystem? The reason for…
Well by now you have heard about HANA from SAP. In-memory technology is a significant revolution in database and real-time analytic technology. The rest of the industry appears to be playing catch up because the relevance of this technology is significant and can’t be ignored. The HANA database resides in memory in a columnar architecture. …
The goal of this three part series is to describe the strategy and framework for constructing an ecosystem from cloud services to best serve your enterprise. It’s also a discussion about the future role of cloud service providers and how the end user will become ultimately empowered. Public Cloud Ecosystem In the first part of…
The goal of this three part series is to describe the strategy and framework for constructing an ecosystem from cloud services to best serve your enterprise. It’s also a discussion about the future role of cloud service providers and how the end user will become ultimately empowered. Let’s start with defining what is meant by…
It is not the task of the customer to convince themselves that a provider’s public cloud solution is right for them; it’s the provider’s job to present options of cloud delivery. The attraction of SaaS and PaaS cloud computing is that you can secure a service that your business needs and is managed as a…