Consider the jet engine industry and the disruption of the business model in the ‘90s. Traditionally the industry competed on product functionality like thrust-to-weight ratio, design, just-in-time delivery of parts and so on. These elements are connected to the actual offering, where features and performance are at the core. The same applies for the computer [...]
These days it’s almost impossible to read an article about IT without touching Cloud. There are a lot of players and hard to navigate into core facts. Let’s start with the definition of Business applications, this is applications your company uses to run the business. Mandatory for everyone is of course ERP, but other application [...]
One of the key elements of Cloud Computing is the deployment model. There are a number of different methodologies and ways to define the elements of Cloud. So far there are no unambiguously definitions or standards. Therefore there are different understandings of deployment models with no one being better than another, but we are seeing [...]
There is probably no other concept facing the IT-industry that is more hyped than Cloud Computing. Some say it will totally disrupt the industry, which very well may be the case, but in our eager to support the hype, it is important to break Cloud down into the concrete parts of which it is build. [...]
For those of you with a good memory you will have vague memories about SOA that was one of the big buzz words some years ago. SOA was supposed to be the silver bullet that solved integration problems, you could put together different services, build on top of other services and magically compose new services. [...]
In 2012 you will see the emergence of the first Cloud-based (SaaS) financial and payroll systems, which are designed for larger businesses and professional users. Today there are many good self-service SaaS solutions, e.g. reporting, time tracking and expense, while the core systems of large companies still are On Premises and Windows based. The trend [...]
