If there’s one thing Americans know how to do, its conventions. It seems that every town has its venue, and every association worth its salt will organise an event at least annually. In San Diego this week, Microsoft’s management summit cohabited the downtown convention center (sic) with the Society of Realtors and the American Association [...]
Posted on Thursday, April 27, 2006 by adminWe’ve just posted episode four of the pretty-much-weekly MWD podcast. Neil M hosts this episode with Neil W-D (Jon is in San Diego at the Microsoft Management Summit). The format is a little different this week: the two of us ponder recent industry news and Neil M’s discussion with enterprise architect (and fellow blogger) James [...]
Posted on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 by adminFollowing on from my previous post regarding VMware’s attempts to foster a healthy ecosystem around its virtualisation offerings, the company’s at it again. According to CNET (I can’t find a press release on the VMware site), VMware has formed the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Alliance, which includes Citrix, ClearCube Technology, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Wyse Technology, Sun Microsystems, [...]
Posted on Monday, April 24, 2006 by adminWe’ve just posted the third episode of the pretty-much-weekly MWD podcast. Jon Collins hosts this episode, and guides a three-way discussion on his current research focus – IT service management. You’ll learn answers to two crucial questions: why doesn’t it make sense to by an ITSM product? And what has ITIL got to do with [...]
Posted on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 by adminThis starts where my earlier discussion of the Liberty Alliance Project’s approach to user-centric identity left off – with a discussion of some of the important user-centric issues that Liberty can ill-afford to ignore. Mechanisms need to be in place to ensure that identity providers and service providers aren’t able to build up pictures of [...]
Posted on Thursday, April 13, 2006 by adminYesterday I attended a Liberty Alliance Project webinar on user-centric identity (see here for some press coverage and, no, although I asked the question about user experience referred to in the piece, I am definitely NOT a developer working with Microsoft’s InfoCard). Some of you reading this are perhaps thinking “Must have been a short [...]
Posted on Thursday, April 13, 2006 by adminAs I mentioned earlier, the research and analysis project that’s taking up a lot of my time at the moment is focused on Web 2.0 and the enterprise. I’ve been scratching my head for some days now, trying to think about how (or even if) it’s possible to analyse the business impact of Web 2.0 [...]
Posted on Wednesday, April 12, 2006 by adminOur second podcast episode is now live. This week’s episode is with all three MWD analysts – Neil Ward-Dutton (your host), Neil Macehiter and Jon Collins. Welcome Jon! In this episode, you’ll hear why project portfolio management isn’t sexy; why it’s so important for IT industry analysts to keep working with real people doing real [...]
Posted on Monday, April 10, 2006 by adminI just got off the phone (off the Skype Out doesn’t have the same ring to it ;-) ) from a briefing with Cyber-Ark Software . The company has been around since 1999, with headquarters in Massachusetts – the founder actually originates from Israel – and has received $23M in funding. It has more than [...]
Posted on Thursday, April 6, 2006 by adminI’m currently waist-deep in a research programme on the potential impact of "Web 2.0" ideas on enterprises. Really fascinating stuff that should start to see the light of day in a MWD perspectives report in the next couple of months. Apologies to those of you to whom this is old hat, but just now I [...]
Posted on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 by admin
