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Recently, HP announced its first public cloud services available as a public beta, and it is creating a stir in the cloud arena. On May 10, 2012, HP released three beta services that are the first of their kind under the company’s Converged Cloud portfolio. Read More…
By David A. Kelly, Upside ResearchThe goal of business intelligence is to support better decision-making in business. The direction of modern healthcare is evidence-based medicine driven by the proper use of data. Clearly, the combination of business intelligence in healthcare would seem to be a match made in heaven. Read More…
By David A. Kelly, Upside ResearchIn an effort to cover cloud computing in a holistic fashion, I’ve been paying attention to what’s out on the blogosphere in addition to the vendor announcements that I’ve covered on the topic. While I did raise (in a previous article) some of the issues that indicated that perhaps cloud computing isn’t a panacea, it is clear that the market for cloud is moving forward at breakneck speed. Read More…
By David A. Kelly, Upside ResearchIBM recently announced new offerings under its SmartCloud Foundation. According to a study published recently by IBM, the number of enterprises who use cloud computing to transform their existing business model will more than double in the next three years. Read More…
By David A. Kelly, Upside ResearchSocial Media within the organization can be two-fold: using social media to reach and interact with customers or using social media technologies inside the four walls to encourage collaboration among employees. Many of the recent posts I’ve made regarding social media have focused on the latter, or how enterprise social media technology is impacting businesses. Today, I’m taking the other view, how social media giant, Facebook, is engaging with businesses to promote new ways for them to interact with their customers. Read More…
By David A. Kelly, Upside ResearchThe last year has been busy for enterprise social media and networking vendors, as they continue their land-grab efforts in the Enterprise Social Networking Land Rush. Here are a few highlights from recent announcements by some of the more popular social networking vendors: Read More…
By David A. Kelly, Upside Research Today’s organizations have plenty of options when it comes to managing business processes, from informal or manual methods to software-based collaboration and workflow solutions. The past decade has seen a rise in every type of business process management solution imaginable: vertically focused, task-focused, cloud-based, adapted to the mobile workforce. Read More…
By David A. Kelly and Heather Ashton, Upside Research With the rise of virtual and private cloud computing environments, response time becomes critical, and all users of applications have heightened expectations for performance levels. Having looked at the application performance management (APM) market from the perspective of tools that help identify performance issues in production applications, we’d now like to turn our attention to applying APM tenants to pre-production applications, specifically in the software testing aspect of application development. Read More…
By David A. Kelly and Heather Ashton, Upside ResearchBusiness intelligence has performed well as a corporate housecleaning agent – reducing the inefficiencies related to manual data entry for report creation and corporate ‘Excel farms’ creating one-off reports to satisfy individual stakeholders. Stories and examples abound counting the ways that automated reporting and analytic dashboards have provided an insight previously not possible across the distributed global enterprise. Read More…
By David A. Kelly and Heather Ashton, Upside ResearchThings continue to pop in the enterprise sustainability arena. Now, we’re seeing the emergence of enterprise social networking tools for furthering sustainability initiatives. Read More…
By David A. Kelly and Heather Ashton, Upside ResearchIn two recent blogs, we introduced both some of the trailblazers to enterprise social networking as well as enterprise entrants. This final installment of our Enterprise Social Networking Roundup includes some additional enterprise providers that have created some intriguing social networking solutions. Read More…
By David A. Kelly and Heather Ashton, Upside Research A while back, we wrote a blog about the application performance management space, covering the recent acquisition of dynaTrace by Compuware dynaTrace’s technology, branded PurePath, focuses on providing visibility into the user experience, round trip from the end user’s browser through various levels of enterprise middleware, and back to the end user. The goal is to help improve application performance, across the traditional and cloud infrastructures. Read More…
By David A. Kelly and Heather Ashton, Upside ResearchThe march of cloud computing across the enterprise continues, as IBM recently announced a portfolio of private cloud offerings. These offerings have been designed from the ground up for enterprises, and seek to allay some of the concerns that large enterprises have over the security and readiness of the cloud for business-critical computing. Read More…
By David A. Kelly and Heather Ashton, Upside ResearchIn a recent blog, we introduced a few of the trailblazers to enterprise social networking, including Yammer, Socialcast, and Signals. This column covers another early space-shaper, Jive, as well as three of the enterprise entrants, Salesforce.com, Cisco and SAP. Read More…
By David A. Kelly and Heather Ashton, Upside Researchthere’s a flip side to the rush to cloud computing. More specifically, the question is, is cloud computing is where enterprise should be investing? Has the market exploded too quickly to properly assess the associated risks with the cloud?
By David A. Kelly and Heather Ashton, Upside ResearchThe Enterprise Social Networking Market is anything but stationary. It feels very much like the Business Process Management market felt ten years ago, full of energy, new entries, and mergers and acquisitions as the space sorts itself out. Read More…
By David A. Kelly and Heather Ashton, Upside ResearchThe path for an enterprise toward sustainability is a long one, driven by a number of influencers, including regulatory groups, shareholders, and customers. In fact, many industry experts on sustainability believe that regulatory groups and government mandates will be needed to achieve the higher goals for sustainability as set forth by some industry groups. The logic follows that most corporations will not be willing to spend the time and money required to initiate and implement sustainability programs until it becomes a necessity. Read More…
By David A. Kelly and Heather Ashton, Upside ResearchSocial networking is still very much front and center on the enterprise computing radar. While companies continue to search for the best way to incorporate the new collaboration functionality into an already crowded enterprise software environment, software vendors are adding new combinations of technology to their offerings. Recently, computing giant Cisco announced an acquisition that moves it ahead several steps in the race to develop the killer unified communication platform. Read More…
By David A. Kelly and Heather Ashton, Upside Research Much attention has been paid in recent years to sustainability initiatives. We believe there are some important distinctions to make within the sustainability category, and some specific decision points that can impact an enterprise sustainability project. Here are a few key points to consider…Read More
By David A. Kelly and Heather Ashton, Upside Research Application performance management is more important now than it ever has been, with applications that reside both in house and in the cloud, and applications that have components that are split across applications, systems, and environments. Organizations need to pay attention now more than ever to how well their applications perform under a wide range of potential operational issues. Read More >>
By David A. Kelly and Heather Ashton, Upside Research It is nearly impossible to exist in today’s world without some mention of “green” or “eco” initiatives. Corporate IT has not been immune to this sustainability movement, and in many cases hold the key to transforming a business into one that reflects the new goals for reduced consumption of resources like energy and water. Read More >>
Written by: David A. Kelly and Heather Ashton, Upside Research Recently, we discussed the crowded marketplace for online backup and recovery services, and how many companies are taking advantage of the flexibility of the cloud to achieve enterprise-strength back-up services at SMB prices. Today, it is increasingly apparent, that the Cloud is relevant to most of the enterprise software categories that exist. BPM is no exception, and Appian Software is trying to stake out a big spot in this nascent space. Read More >>
Written by: David A. Kelly and Heather Ashton, Upside ResearchSocial networking tools aren’t just for connecting with friends. Specialized enterprise social network technologies are also starting to be widely used on an enterprise scale, for enterprise needs. Many of them have grass-roots support from departments within a larger company, and some of them are actually sanctioned by and managed by IT across the enterprise. The challenge for companies is to find the tools that are best suited for particular functions. Read More…
Written by: David A. Kelly and Heather Ashton, Upside ResearchCloud backup and recovery solutions have at least one important consideration: the amount of time it takes to restore data. While backups can be done incrementally, in the event of the total loss of data, organizations want to restore completely. A newer option in this market is a hybrid online/local service that allows organizations to maintain up-to-date local copies of critical business data that are available to speed the recovery process in the event of a data loss. Read More…
Written by: David A. Kelly and Heather Ashton, Upside Research Insight is everything in business. Having the right tools to optimize business processes is the wish of every business analyst. While business intelligence as a discipline has existed for many years in enterprise computing, operational intelligence has emerged in recent years as the hot-button area for driving business optimization. Read More
Written by: David A. Kelly and Heather Ashton, Upside Research HTML5 is a language for structuring and presenting web content. Its core aims have been to improve the language with support for the latest multimedia while keeping it easily readable by humans and consistently understood by computers and devices. The new developments of HTML5 support the growth in sharing multiple media forms easily through web sites, micro blogs, and on mobile devices, which are increasingly becoming as necessary for the enterprise apps to support as PCs. Read More
Written by: David A. Kelly and Heather Ashton, Upside Research The business analytics market is not immune to the rise in popularity of social networking for the enterprise. In fact, many proponents of business intelligence and decision management solutions see social networking as a way to extend business analytics to the masses. Enterprises have struggled with extending BI functionality beyond the dashboards that power users inhabit. New social networking and collaboration capabilities foster advanced analyses and better brainstorming among BI users, which may be just the antidote this segment needs. Read More…
Written by: David A. Kelly and Heather Ashton, Upside Research The widespread presence of open source databases in web and enterprise applications is not new. But recently, a few upgrades to some of the leaders in the space as well as a much-anticipated new entrant have cast new light on their emerging and important role in powering many critical cloud-based applications. Read More…
