Can We Get Simpler SaaS Licensing?
Earlier this summer I wrote a post questioning whether most software vendors were ready for the pay-as-you-go usage model that was pitched…
Outages: Cloud Customers Cry Out for Communication
What is the collective noun for a number of cloud outages? A thunderstorm? A puddle of…? A wave of major…
Cloud ERP Software Perceptions
The Cloud represents a major technological change that impacts ERP software. The change is real in terms of how software…
Microsoft Works to Tame the Wild Wild Web
The World Wide Web is often compared to the American Old West, such as in the recent exchange over NPR and Pastebin…
Enhancing Collective Defense with Taxonomies for Operational Cyber Defense
Cyberspace is our interconnected information technology. And since everything either is or is becoming connected, one of the defining characteristics…
Where Did the ‘Data Explosion’ Come From?
ReadWriteWeb, 2010: ReadWriteWeb, 2010: One of the key aspects of the emerging Internet of Things – where real-world objects are…
Digital Universe Study: The Big Hype
In my last post, I discussed some of the key points in the 5th annual Digital Universe study from IDC,…
How Life Will Be Different–and the Same–in 2072
An exercise for you. Look around wherever you are (and away from this screen) and carry out an inventory. What…
In Defense of IT
Business leaders often criticize IT for their inability to get with the times. Do the following questions sound familiar? Why…
Cloud ERP – Today’s Business with Technology of Tomorrow
ERP Issues ERP Issues The ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system had a bad start in the 1990s but it may…
