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The new design-driven development landscape
How did we get from single-channel desktop apps
In the not-too-distant past web-centric software development had a standard workflow between designers and developers. This was possible because there was a single delivery channel (the web browser) and well-established development constructs. Design patterns like Model-View-Controller had well known coding...
May 12, 2012 4:13 PM Read Full Post
Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask about BI
The key steps to a succesful business intelligence projects
How does an enterprise — especially a large, global one with multiple product lines and multiple enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications — make sense of operations, logistics, and finances? There’s just too much information for any one person to process....
May 4, 2012 7:11 AM Read Full Post
Mobile Backend-As-A-Service
The new lightweight middleware?
It’s no secret that demand for mobile applications is skyrocketing in both the consumer and enterprise space. To meet that demand, application development shops are continually looking for new ways to accelerate development of apps that meet their consumers’ needs....
May 1, 2012 3:41 PM Read Full Post
What are the benefits of running your software organisation as a business that delivers products?
Time for IT organisations to embrace the product manager role
In my previous blog post, I asked whether you should be running your software organisation as a business that delivers products. Today I will explore what it means for you to take this approach. As Forrester has pointed out in...
May 1, 2012 1:59 AM Read Full Post
Should you be running your software organisation like a business that delivers products?
To ask the question is to know the answer
Is it hard to focus your software delivery organisation on the right things? Do you sometimes deliver the wrong features or give too little priority to the most important features? Are you drowning in the cost of too much redundant...
April 30, 2012 9:41 AM Read Full Post
Agile development makes business technology come true; it embodies business value in software
Agile and Lean require a big cultural organisational change
There is no doubt that Agile growth in the market is significant, and the growing daily number of inquiries I’ve been getting on Agile from end user organisations in 2012 gives me the impression that many are moving from tactical...
March 23, 2012 12:55 PM Read Full Post
Understanding cloud's multitenancy
Multitenant architectures must balance cost benefits with the need for individual tenants to secure their data and applications
True cloud services all use some mode of multitenancy — the ability for multiple customers (tenants) to share the same applications and/or compute resources. It is through multitenant architectures that cloud services achieve high cost efficiencies and can deliver low...
March 21, 2012 5:23 PM Read Full Post
2012 - The end of the world or the year of banking platform mergers and acquisitions?
Due to increasing competition and the growth strategies of vendors in the financial services market, 2012 could be the year of mergers and acquisitions
Some people say that the old Maya calendar predicts that the world will end in the year 2012. Will this happen? Most likely no. Without judging anybody’s beliefs in this ancient calendar: Some experts say that the Maya calendar is...
February 29, 2012 9:06 AM Read Full Post
Agile teaches us an important lesson about innovation
The Agile community has moved well beyond development team issues
The story of Agile is more than just one chapter in the history of software development. It's also an extremely valuable case study in innovation, an elusive and often humbling process that doesn't work in quite the way that we...
February 23, 2012 11:32 AM Read Full Post
Oracle moves solidly into SaaS with Taleo acquisition
Major product overlap issues will have to be resolved
Oracle Corporation announced its purchase of Taleo for $1.9 billion last week, signalling a major shift in its stance on software-as-a-service (SaaS) and talent management applications. The transaction is expected to close midyear 2012, subject to regulatory and stockholder approvals....
February 13, 2012 3:40 PM Read Full Post
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