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The merger of Misys and Temenos

Moving out of the gap between gorillas and antelopes

Less than a week ago, initial information became public that Misys and Temenos may intend to merge. On February 7, 2012, a press release stated that "Temenos and Misys today confirm that they have reached agreement in principle on certain...

Tags: banking, forrester, it business, mergers and acquisitions. m&a, misys, temenos

Open web technologies you need to know

The core tools that will create the next generation of web apps

The open web is a culture, a community — and a set of preferred technologies for Internet applications. While HTML5 is the best known of these technologies, the open web also includes JavaScript, CSS3, Representational State Transfer (REST) application programming...

Tags: applications, forrester, html5, javascript, open web, web apps

Here comes the open web - embrace it, Part 2

In the second accompanying blog about the Open Web, we look at motivations and key assumptions.

The Web is moving on to a new era of openness, mobility, and digital business. The open Web is a platform built on HTTP (the fundamental web protocol), a new generation of HTML, dynamic languages, and wide use of Internet...

Tags: application development, applications, cloud computing, open web

Here comes the open web - embrace It

The advent of cloud computing and mobile devices will make open web crucial to enterprise app development

One of the things I enjoy the most about being an industry analyst is that I've spent the past six years meeting some great developers. Personally, I’m not sure I could cover any other technology area then application development. The...

Tags: application development, applications, cloud computing, smartphones

Embracing the open web

The technologies you need to know

The open web is a culture, a community — and a set of preferred technologies for Internet applications. While HTML5 is the best known of these technologies, the open web also includes JavaScript (client and server), CSS3, Representational State Transfer...

Tags: apis, applications, forrester, html5, javascript, rest, web

You think changing to increase business agility is hard?

If IOR did it, believe me you can too

Think of a medieval fortress: It was originally used for a small army, it has walls nine meters thick, and it’s surrounded by buildings hundreds of years old. Upon entering, you are confronted with the concept of eternity. This fortress...

Tags: agile, agility, business transformation, change management, forrester, it business, lean, sourcing

Agile development and robots: are you smarter than a 10th grader?

Put yourself to the test - get involved

One of the counter intuitive things that we observed early on in the days of object oriented programming was that developers with no previous programming experience often picked up concepts like inheritance, encapsulation and polymorphism much more quickly than seasoned...

Tags: application development, applications, education, forrester, robots

Software requirements are where we define value

Get this right and everything else follows

Revolutions take two forms. The most familiar kind is the noisy, conspicuous, disjunctive event that marks a clean break from the past. Yesterday, George III was our monarch. Today, he's not. The other kind of revolution is a more gradual...

Tags: business analysis, design thinking, forrester, requirements, requirements management, software requirements, user experience

Software is not code; it creates experiences

Get the customer UX wrong and nothing else matters

Ultimately, customers don't judge you based on how well you gather business requirements, choose development technologies, manage projects, or march through the development process -- they judge you based on how they feel before, during, and after they use...

Tags: agile, applications, digital experience, forrester, software, ux

Honest: Accounting packages really can deliver business advantage

Think back office systems are non-differentiating? Think again…

Do you ever wonder which IT investments really drive competitiveness or comparative advantage for your firm and which are there simply to support mundane processes that are identical to those of all your competitors? Do you ever wonder if it...

Tags: accounting applications, accounting systems, applications, forrester, it business, retail