Everybody acknowledges that IT has to plays a key role in any new service or
product design. Therefore, IT needs to align with business and be flexible to
changing business needs. It is a question of how to be agile rather than
should we be agile. Then, why is there such a gulf between the people who
evangelize agile processes and those who look at them with great suspicion?
Any application is built to satisfy a business goal. The process has two
major steps where the step one is to define the application behavior which
will help in meeting the business goal and the step two is to translate the
application behavior to a working application. The definition of the
application behavior is the requirement specification and it is the link
between business and IT.
In the wat... (more)
Since the launch of iPhone the mobile industry has been in a flux. It has
witnessed lot of innovations since then. Today, more choices are available to
the user than ever before which has resulted in a fragmented market. It has
complicated matters for every organization which wants to reach out to their
consumers through mobile. There are too many platforms to be supported and
there is n... (more)
I am writing this post with the hope that you will prove me wrong – you
will point out all the fallacies in my argument. These are the collections of
views that I have come across, on why web 2.0 concepts and tools are not much
of use inside an enterprise.
Incompatibility – Structured approach in enterprise vs. Self-organizing
approach in web 2.0
There are fundamental differences between ... (more)
In two of my previous posts I have highlighted why I think cloud computing
needs change in thinking. However, in a recent discussion Walid Abu-Hadba (of
Microsoft) clearly stated that Microsoft’s cloud strategy assumes that they
are going to retain the existing programming model for cloud. That is,
programmers can develop their application without bothering about where it is
going to be ... (more)
(5sahjdcb8k) This post is triggered by John Gannon asking me a question about
“the implication of VMware acquisition of Spring Source?”
VMware: I already have the most popular virtualization software and I will
integrate Spring Source and create the best PaaS offering.
Amazon EC2: I am extending my cloud facility to a virtual private environment
so that you security concerns are taken care.... (more)
Udayan Banerjee an IT industry veteran who started his career in 1977. In his posts he mainly concentrates on looking at the IT scene and changing trends from an Indian perspective - and has a special interest in collective intelligence arising out of self-organizing complex systems.
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