2014 – The year of the cloud (sprawl)?
There are many articles, vendors and analysts already touting 2014 as the ‘year of the cloud’. Of course many said that in 2013, and in 2012 as well. From my view, cloud is assumed for the foreseeable...
View ArticleWhy Many Software Development Projects Today Yield Inferior Results and How...
In the previous entry of this blog, I described a few decades of trends in the software industry and how they have negatively affected the quality of software that is being produced. These industry...
View ArticleShifting Gears: Taking Information Management off Cruise Control
There have been very few pivotal moments in my career. The first one happened in 1998 when I chose to focus on Information Management as a career path. I was informed that shifts in database...
View ArticleMission Impossible: Concept on a napkin to award-winning innovation
Analog Devices named Collaborative Consulting as its “IT Applications Partner of the Year” award winner. The award was given to Collaborative for its work on complex application development for Analog...
View ArticleThe Collaborative Model
When the project requires close communication, collaboration, business understanding and speed to market, delivering IT services in an on-shore model can provide significant advantages. When keeping...
View ArticleCloud Wars – Can the Force disrupt the battlefield?
The cloud wars battle rages on. Gartner predicts that one in four cloud providers will be gone by 2015, making this a very high stakes battle for all concerned. The 800lb gorillas, AWS, IBM, Google,...
View ArticleAchieve Operational Success with Business Architecture
Can you answer “Yes” to all of the following questions? Is there an agreed upon understanding, between the Business and IT, of the business objectives, goals and priorities related solution delivery?...
View ArticleWe all love a bargain: pay a little and get a lot
Planning for and validating application performance is not free, but it is certainly a bargain when compared to the added costs of unplanned downtime and effort to address performance issues...
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