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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Managing the Innovation Process

Recently I have been working with our y own Agile and Collaborative Technology group and with customers on the very topic of this post.
There is so much to lean and unlearn about the Innovation Process that I recommend reading the following two books:
ThinkerToys by Michael Michalko and Wikinomics by Don Tappscot/Anthony Williams (by the way Don [...]

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The Next Generation Enterprise and Enterprise 2.0

The following is my point of view on a topic that has been getting a lot of attention lately.  There are two camps on Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0.  Each one has some very good points of view and relevant experience on the subject matter.  I will discuss briefly Enterprise 2.0 and how it relates [...]

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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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Integrating Web 2.0 Services in the Enterprise

We are in need.
 
Hundreds of new platforms, tools, sites, etc… are available to both the public and the enterprise every day. And all of these are marketed as Web 2.0 or Enterprise 2.0. But do we really need all these?
 
Well, yes, we need it. But we need to bring some sanity to this madness. I [...]

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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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Web and Enterprise 2.0 – Technology or paradigm (Part 2)

I have been back from vacation for over a week and still trying to catch up with the many things that I placed on-hold during that time.  Finally the time slice goes to finishing the second part of the “web and Enterprise 2.0 technology or paradigm” posting.
To refresh your memory, in part 1 I discussed [...]

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Composite Applications

There is a trend that is part of this Web 2.0 wave.  There are quite a few number of companies that are providing ways for users to create their own applications by aggregation.  Many of these new offering are enabled by AJAX and RIA style apps.
New players are starting to appear in the aggregator and [...]

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Game Changing

Today I was thinking about game changing aspects of the Web 2.0 wave.  I think that there are two aspects to Web 2.0 that are game changing: the way people interact and the underlying technology.  The collaboration culture resulting out of this social computing age is definitely an improvement to what we had last decade.  Lotus [...]

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