A tool for assessing technology?s amplification of your strategy
08 Feb 2012 14:04:40 Z
Amplifying the enterprise is the theme for this year?s CIO agenda reflecting the expanding role of technology in the enterprise and its role in raising the power of enterprise strategies and performance. The notion of technology as an enterprise amplifier goes beyond traditional notions of IT and the administration/automation of back office processes. Technologies such [...]
Cloud Security Monitoring: IaaS Conundrum
As you learned from my previous posts related to security monitoring of public cloud assets, there are challenges related to monitoring data availability as well as data interpretation. IaaS environments ? such as the well-known ecommerce-retailer-turned-cloud-provider as well as other cloud service providers (CSPs) – offer an interesting challenge that I call ?IaaS conundrum.? To [...]
Email Overload Cannot be Solved by Changes to Just Email
Have you gotten any emails with this Email charter attached that points to ?10 Rules to Reverse the Email Spiral?? I?ve seen a few examples, but the ?email charter? is one of the better and more organized attempts I?ve seen. Unfortunately, these email etiquette screeds suffer from the problem that they focus on email. I?m [...]
Leveraging Business Rules for Revenue Generation: Success Snippet
This situation is where a company employed policies/rules to identify and execute on cross-selling opportunities in a dynamic manner. This organization provides connected software applications to the financial services industry for lending, collection, recovery, and sales/service. Today, nearly 500 financial institutions in all 50 states and all provinces of Canada are using their technology. Leveraging [...]
Big League Business Influence: The Super Bowl versus the Super PAC
Yesterday during the on-air buildup to the Super Bowl a reporter mentioned that over one billion people were expected to watch this year?s big game. It occurred to me how few of these individuals, including some Americans, fully understand what the Super Bowl really means. The next news story was about Super PACs (a new [...]
New Research Released ? SDLC Infrastructure
My research concerning the need for strong SDLC infrastructure has been released. Check it out here! Here’s a summary: Increasing Agility Through Software Development Life Cycle Infrastructure Every organization that creates software must ensure that the infrastructure supporting its development process is robust and applicable to the needs of the team. In this guidance document, [...]
Mobile Technology: Endpoint Independence for Non-Routine Work?
Many clients are asking about how to develop mobile custom applications, create mobile front-ends to existing applications, secure their mobile content, select mobile devices, craft mobile policies, and manage the devices. Those are all very good questions to ask and critical to supporting the needs of flexible, distributed organizations and workers. But what about mobile [...]
Prediction Provides Questions; Not Answers
December 2012 marks the end of a time period in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. Some believe this is because the world will end. Unix time ends on Tuesday, 19th January 2038. So assuming we are all still here next February, should we believe that the world will end in 2038? Did the POSIX committee [...]
Is the quality of executive sponsorship falling?
Every business book you read says that you need to have ?executive sponsorship? for any major initiative. Fail to involve the executives and you are likely to fail. That advice has become so prevalent that it is almost worthless. Getting executive sponsorship is not what matters; it?s the quality of the sponsorship that makes all [...]
A Tale of Two (E-Commerce) Retailers
Last week I attended the Massachusetts Internet & Technology Exchange (www.mitx.org) conference on E-Commerce, held at Microsoft?s R&D Center in Cambridge MA and on the other side of the Charles River from Gartner?s Boston offices. MITX is a non-profit trade association for digital marketing and the Internet business industry, with a membership of technology vendors, [...]
Nokia cumple su promesa y lanza una nueva versión de Belle
08 Feb 2012 14:04:59 Z
El esperado sucesor del sistema operativo Symbian Belle ya está disponible en algunos países, e incluye mejoras como más pantallas de inicio, mejor manejo de los íconos y una mejorada interfaz de correo.
¡Por fin! Google Chrome aparece para Android
Tras una larga espera, una versión beta del navegador está disponible en el Android Market. Tendrá las características que hicieron popular a la versión de escritorio, pero que solo estará disponible para quienes tengan Android 4.0 o Ice Cream Sandwich.
La interacción y la realidad aumentada se toman la publicidad
Con tanta avisos en las calles y comerciales en el televisor, el reto para las empresas es captar la atención de sus posibles clientes y la realidad aumentada hace que la gente tome sus dispositivos y comience a interactuar con ellos.
Virginia Rometty cumple un mes como presidenta de IBM
Luego de cumplir un mes a cargo de la presidencia del Gigante Azul, Virginia Rometty ha hecho algunos cambios relacionados con nombramientos y se ha propuesto invertir 20.000 millones de dólares en la adquisición de otras compañías.
Motorola expone datos personales de sus clientes por error
La compañía admitió que no borró la información que estas traían antes de renovarlas y ponerlas nuevamente en el mercado.
Detalles de Star Wars, la película que cambió la ciencia ficción [After Effects]
Gary Kurtz, productor de las dos primeras películas de la saga, y Sandie Lieberson, vicepresidente de producción de 20th. Century Fox, estarán en Bogotá para hablar de 'La guerra de las galaxias'. Presentamos un adelanto de lo que nos contarán y sus expectativas sobre Colombia.
Mozilla lanza Firefox 10 para luchar frente a Chrome
Con su más reciente versión, Firefox pretende recuperar el terreno perdido después de ser superado por Chrome en 2011. Firefox 10 busca corregir los errores que posiblemente han provocado la deserción de los usuarios a otros navegadores.
Samsung estrenará el innovador Lotus Glass en dispositivos móviles
Uno de los atractivos de los dispositivos de Samsung es la integración con Gorilla Glass, un recubrimiento de vidrio muy resistente. Ahora la compañía planea integrar una nueva tecnología para sus pantallas.
ENTER.CO lanza su edición para iPad
La edición de la revista ENTER.CO para iPad es producida por eContent, la compañía que edita la revista desde mediados de 2010. En su nuevo formato digital, la publicación será mensual.
Unión Europea pide a Google aplazar los cambios en sus políticas de seguridad
Google anunció que a partir del primero de marzo los usuarios podrán observar algunos cambios de su política de privacidad y de las condiciones del servicio. Sin embargo, esta fecha podría cambiar si la compañía accede a la petición hecha por la Unión Europea.
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