Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
My earlier post on the announcement that Unisys will migrate the General Services Administration to Google Apps for Government talked about why the announcement was getting so much attention. Today I want to explore some of the reasons why this announcement is an historic one.
I don’t use the word “historic” lightly. But GSA’s decision to [...]
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Monday, December 6th, 2010
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, [...]
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Monday, October 25th, 2010
Does senior management think your company’s aging suite of application systems is still adequate? When you bring up modernizing your IT infrastructure, does the boss remind you about the importance of making do with what is already in place? Does he or she look you in the eye and ask (in that tone of [...]
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
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 [...]
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Friday, June 18th, 2010
The recent Unisys-sponsored global study on the consumerization of IT has confirmed that the consumer adoption of new technology is a strong and growing trend. However, it also highlights that organizations are on the defensive and do not have a clear vision or a plan to manage this big change coming their way. Given that [...]
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