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New Application Design Imperatives for the Modern Enterprise
The IT industry has gone through a fruitful period of innovation over the past several years. Those innovations continue with the growing adoption of emerging technologies such as cloud computing, mobile computing, smart computing, appliances, and cyber security.
Now enterprise strategists and architects need to step back and help their organizations absorb these individual innovations and [...]
Rationalizing the Enterprise Application Portfolio
I’ve blogged in the past about how crucial it is for organizations to have a well thought out strategy surrounding the adoption of new consumer technologies. IT leadership needs to decide why and where these disruptive technologies will be integrated, how they’ll coexist with existing platforms, and how investments should be prioritized.
So far most IT [...]
What is the Future of Enterprise Business Applications?
Business applications are the workhorses of enterprises. Over the last decade, globalization, new regulations, and changing business models, user demographics, and behavior have increased our expectations for enterprise applications. We now demand they provide new, advanced capabilities and greater agility.
We have also witnessed a number of major innovations such as open source, Web 2.0, SOA, [...]
Has Consumerization Started the Post-PC Era?
The recent release of new generation devices like Apple’s iPad, which is expected to sell almost 10 million by the end of this year, has started a new kind of race among the computer manufacturers that we have not seen for a long time. Other news that captured the headlines in the past month was [...]
Top Five Consumer Technologies that will Create the Biggest Impact on the Business
The recent Unisys-sponsored global study on the consumerization of IT confirms that consumer technologies are rapidly making their way into the business world. But what specific technologies are having the greatest impact on the enterprise? We know these include mobile devices and social computing, but are there others?
Here are five core consumer technology trends that [...]
