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Community, Recognition and experiences of a Community Manager

By Craig Cmehil on October 16, 2013

For several years my primary role and concern really was that of being the Community Manager for the SAP Developer Network (SDN) which is now known as the SAP Community Network (SCN); I still work at SAP however my roles over the years have modified and adapted but as this year is the 10th anniversary […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Amazon.com, book, Community, Development, Jon Reed, Networking, publishing, recognition, relationships, sap, SAP Community Network, SCN

Enable them and they will build it!

Enable them and they will build it!

By Craig Cmehil on June 12, 2012

For awhile now we’ve heard that companies, especially large ones need to enable and empower their employees to be thought leaders, innovators and of course inventors! However, how does one really go about enabling them? Or rather more specifically from … Read More →

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Development, sap, Thoughts | 1 Response

IBM buys itself a cloud integration toolbox

IBM buys itself a cloud integration toolbox

By Phil Wainewright on May 3, 2010

IBM bought Cast Iron Systems because it simply had nothing in its huge Websphere toolbox that could do cloud integration. I just heard the company’s SVP of its software group Steve Mills admit this in today’s IBM press briefing, talking about the acquisition. While IBM has a massive catalog of technologies for integrating applications within […]

Posted in Business | Tagged cast iron, Cast Iron System, Development, ibm, IBM WebSphere, integration, redmonk, SaaS Integration, software as a service

How SaaS Helps Enterprises Effect Change

How SaaS Helps Enterprises Effect Change

By Phil Wainewright on February 8, 2010

Listen to my conversation with Eric Berridge, CEO of Bluewolf, one of the pioneers of a new generation of professional services companies that specialize in software-as-a-service and cloud computing. In this podcast, learn what attracts large enterprises to SaaS, and find out why adopting SaaS can help change the culture of an organization and effect […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Bluewolf, Business process, Cloud Computing, Development, SaaS, salesforce.com, software as a service

Why Microsoft and Intuit need each other's clouds

Why Microsoft and Intuit need each other’s clouds

By Phil Wainewright on January 20, 2010

Today’s announcement that Microsoft and Intuit are to marry up their cloud platforms with a software development kit makes perfect sense to me. Some of my ZDNet colleagues have been less impressed — Dennis Howlett calls it more PaaS to put in your aaS environment while Mary Jo Foley says it’s to shore up Redmond’s […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Azure, Cloud Computing, Development, ecosystems, integration, Intuit, Intuit Partner Platform, microsoft, Platform as a service, Service level management

Next-Gen Business Teams Make Sense of Google Wave

Next-Gen Business Teams Make Sense of Google Wave

By Phil Wainewright on January 13, 2010

Driven by the spread of the Web and advances in Web capabilities over the past ten years, a new way of working in distributed teams has become commonplace for a broad range of project-based activities. In media and advertising, software development, construction, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing product design and financial services, it’s now routine to bring together […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged collaboration, Development, google, Google Wave, iPhone, skype, virtual teams

People-centric IT for a new decade

People-centric IT for a new decade

By Phil Wainewright on January 5, 2010

Continuing my review of emerging trends that are going to be big in 2010, here’s one that I suspect will be a defining theme for IT throughout the coming decade. In one of my favorite postings of 2009 back in September, I called this trend The democratization of IT. Developing those thoughts over the past […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Architecture, Business applications, collaboration, Computing, Development, Enterprise 2.0, enterprise software, Information technology, Management, Service-oriented architecture, SOA, social computing, strategy, Technology / Software, Web 2.0, Web services | 7 Responses

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