Kelly Robertson, CEO of 9Proof Americas, spoke on virtual security last night at VMware in Palo Alto during the monthly meeting of the SDForum Cloud Services SIG. He explained a few special security issues that should be considered when using…
xRM stands for eXtensible Relationship Management, and it amounts to a powerful platform for enabling agility. It means an escape from the buy-build dilemma that has long bogged down IT departments. It means you can satisfy business requirements at the…
Daniel Graham of Teradata spoke Tuesday evening at the SDForum BI SIG on the topic “Data Management in the Cloud.” See my article summarizing his presentation. It’s interesting to compare his presentation with that of Donovan Schneider from Salesforce.com, who…
It’s funny that so much literature in IT trade magazines depicts Microsoft as the aging champion of on-premise software, struggling in vain to hold back the tide of younger, more nimble cloud players of the likes of Google and Salesforce.com.…
I’ve recently read and want to recommend Douglas W. Hubbard’s How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of “Intangibles” in Business (2007). The book’s central premise is that anything can be measured and that any measurement, even a very imperfect…
At the SDForum’s first ever Healthcare IT Symposium held on June 8, 2010, I learned a great deal about the many roles of IT in the healtcare system. It is clear that healthcare IT is going to be a strong,…
Learn how Salesforce makes BI real time. Donovan Schneider, Principal Architect at Salesforce.com, gives the inside story at the SDForum BI SIG.
Monetize the right side of your brain. See a post I’ve written for the SDForum Marketing SIG: http://marketingsig.blogspot.com/2010/05/not-in-any-job-description-unwritten_12.html
Yuecel Karabulut, Chief Security Advisor at SAP, gave an interesting presentation to a joint meeting of the SDForum’s Securing and Cloud Services SIGs on how to architect applications securely in the cloud. For a description, see an article I’ve submitted…
Box.net is like SharePoint but without the hassles, announces a billboard on U.S. Route 101 as it runs by Redwood Shores in Silicon Valley. The Box.net web site boasts of unleashing a SharePoint killer, a white knight in the cloud destined…
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