Are you thinking of moving your email to the cloud? Or perhaps you have already made the switch? Whatever your position on cloud email – positive, negative or just interested – we’d like to invite you to take part in our Email in the Cloud web survey. The survey aims to find out organisations’ priorities [...]
Posted on Thursday, June 30, 2011 by Angela Ashenden
Yesterday saw the long-anticipated launch of Microsoft Office 365, the company’s first true software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering, and the replacement for its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). The product, which has been in public beta since April (and in private beta since November), includes SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, Lync Online and Office Web Apps, as well [...]
Posted on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 by Angela Ashenden
TIBCO’s been through some tough times, but over the past year it’s started to really motor along. The acquisitions of Spotfire (analytics), Netrics (data matching), Data Synapse (grid and cloud computing infrastructure) have been significant engines of growth – helping to make TIBCO’s infrastructure portfolio much richer. The company has complemented these ‘horizontal’ acquisitions with [...]
Posted on Friday, June 24, 2011 by Neil Ward-Dutton
NOTE: this post originally appeared as an article I wrote for CIO UK. You can find the original here. For as long as the discipline of Enterprise Architecture has been around, it’s been a slippery beast. Some organisations have embraced the practice and concepts, and have become ardent evangelists of its power to improve the [...]
Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2011 by Neil Ward-Dutton
I’ve just returned from another lightning trip to the US – this time to take in PegaWorld, Pegasystems’ annual user conference. The company is currently publishing full-year revenue guidance of around $430m for 2011 – up from $330m or so last year – which means it’s grown 30% in each of the last three years. [...]
Posted on Thursday, June 9, 2011 by Neil Ward-Dutton
At its recent Business Analytics Summit, IBM dedicated a session stream to its social media analytics platform Cognos Consumer Insights, an offering that allows organisations to gain a deeper view on consumer attitudes and brand preferences. Given the hype and resulting confusion currently surrounding social media and its value to marketers this was a useful [...]
Posted on Wednesday, June 8, 2011 by Helena Schwenk
The new MWD online shop has opened its doors! Customers can now buy all premium reports in just a few clicks: simply browse or search our research library, add reports to your basket, check out and pay. Your purchases can be downloaded as PDF documents immediately. They’re also stored on your personalised ‘my MWD’ page [...]
Posted on Thursday, June 2, 2011 by Beth Barling