Yesterday Salesforce.com’s customer, partner and media event, Cloudforce 2010, took place in London, drawing an impressive 3,000 or so attendees – all the more impressive given that the company changed the date only a week in advance in order to avoid clashing with Tuesday’s London Tube strike.
The event itself was the first since the company [...]
Posted by Angela Ashenden on September 9, 2010
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This is the third in our Software Delivery InFocus series of podcast episodes, starring Bola Rotibi – the Principal Analyst of MWD’s Software Delivery competency area. In this episode, she discusses the opportunities and challenges associated with using cloud-based software development services. Bola’s guest is Debbie Ashton, Product Director for CODA – a provider of [...]
Posted by admin on January 30, 2009
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Hot on the heels of last week’s acquisition of Credentica by Microsoft, Ping Identity (who I covered here in an On The Radar report) announced yesterday that it has acquired the Sxip Access business unit from Sxip Identity.
Sxip was early to spot the potential opportunity in providing organisations with a simple, easy-to-deploy single sign-on (SSO) [...]
Posted by admin on March 12, 2008
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I thought that those of you who aren’t recipients of our monthly newsletter might be interested in this commentary (penned by the other Neil) dissecting some of the problems with the definition (or lack thereof) of software-as-a-service.
Over the past few days we’ve been having an interesting debate here at MWD, in conjunction with the analysts [...]
Posted by admin on October 3, 2007
Back at the beginning of March I asked “has Microsoft got BPM?“. At that time I hadn’t had the opportunity to get a briefing from Microsoft on its recent BPM moves, but now I have.
So – has Microsoft got BPM? Yes and no.
Microsoft is not about to become a fully-fledged BPM solution provider. Rather, [...]
Posted by admin on April 26, 2007
