My Experience with Cloud Computing

Working with the Energy and Utilities vertical at nGenera we are seriously considering hosting a new product offering on the cloud using Amazon’s EC2 web service.
My experience so far is very positive.  Easy to sign up, easy to use, easy to administer (even with the command-line tools) and the price…  can’t beat that!  at $0.10 [...]

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Lost Steam? Find your “lost soul” with Social Media!

Everyday I see more and more of the “wikinomics” concepts being applied in real business scenarios.  One of the latest is Starbucks.  they have been loosing steam and they are now brewing a social media project in order to find their ”lost soul”. http://mystarbucksidea.force.com/home/home.jsp
Interesting to mention that this is build on force.com.

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Master Data Management in the Service Oriented Enterprise

  With the latest trends in service orientation from an architectural and from business services offering perspective, it has become a high priority for an organization to define and implement a master data management strategy.   The enterprise must look to standardize on management of the transactional, master and transactional data, but often forgotten is the [...]

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Services on the Cloud

…. or Integration-as-a-Service 
In the last few years or so I have seen more and more vendors entering the SaaS space.   I have also observed an increase in the number of data sources, both internal and external.
Today we can source services such as data extraction Transformation and Load from Informatica and possible from other companies. 
We also have [...]

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