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2012 Is Shaping Up As the Year of Open APIs

2012 Is Shaping Up As the Year of Open APIs

By Dion Hinchcliffe on December 18, 2011

It was just over a decade ago that businesses were still wondering why it was necessary to have a Web site. Now it’s a foregone conclusion that they are one of the most important touchpoints for any organization to possess….

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Application programming interface, Cloud Computing, CxO Issues, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Computing, google, Google Analytics, Open APIs, Open Business Models, open supply chains, REST, SOA, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA) | 1 Response

Why The Next App You Use Might Be In A Social Network

Why The Next App You Use Might Be In A Social Network

By Dion Hinchcliffe on August 3, 2011

While social networks are still just getting their sea legs in most organizations, the next big leap forward — in addition to social analytics — is likely to be the integration of our productivity and line of business apps into our activity streams. Will this unleash significant new value? Very probably. But it’s also possibly the big integration […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, mashups, SOA, social business, social computing | 4 Responses

Making Enterprise Applications Social: Looking at the Intranet and OpenSocial

Making Enterprise Applications Social: Looking at the Intranet and OpenSocial

By Dion Hinchcliffe on October 23, 2010

Just in case you’ve been spending time on a deserted island, you might not know that the Web these days has been moving rapidly towards a profoundly more social and interconnected version of itself. It was just over a year…

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged App Store, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, Information technology, intranets, Jive, OpenSocial, social business, social computing, social software, Software design, Web 2.0 | 1 Response

Community Management: The Strategic New IT-Enabled Business Capability

Community Management: The Strategic New IT-Enabled Business Capability

By Dion Hinchcliffe on March 6, 2010

There’s been a lot of discussion in Enterprise 2.0 circles recently on the topic of something known as online community management. While precise definitions of this activity can be hard to pin down, most generally accept that it involves the…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Community, community management, CxO Issues, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Computing, Open Business Models, Social, social business, social computing | 5 Responses

The Enterprise Data Cloud: Why Information Power Is The Future of Business

The Enterprise Data Cloud: Why Information Power Is The Future of Business

By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 23, 2010

As organizations take a close hard look at cloud computing and how it can help them with their businesses, some are coming away unimpressed by the maturity or with concerns about risk, control, and privacy. Yet others are beginning to…

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business Models, Cloud Computing, Crowdsourcing, databases, digital business models, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, innovation, mashups, Open APIs, Open Business Models, Open Data, open supply chains, SOA, strategy

Social Business and Next-Generation CIOs - The Impact of Technological Change

Social Business and Next-Generation CIOs – The Impact of Technological Change

By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 18, 2010

The rate of change in the IT industry has increased dramatically in recent years, but overall technological change has moved ahead even faster. Such is the pace that it’s been imposing a disruptive forward drag on enterprises and it’s been…

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business Models, CIO, Crowdsourcing, CTO, CXO, CxO Issues, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, iPhone, mobile, Open Business Models, shadow it, social business, social computing, social networking, Social Tools, technology, Web, Web 2.0, Wikis | 1 Response

The Enterprise App Store And Self-Service IT: How SOA, Saas, And Mashups Will Thrive

The Enterprise App Store And Self-Service IT: How SOA, Saas, And Mashups Will Thrive

By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 5, 2010

There’s been some useful discussion recently about using the app store model for distributing enterprise software and services within organizations. Up until now, most IT needs in the majority of businesses have been met largely through one-size-fits-all delivery of solutions…

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged App Store, Business, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, infotech, mashups, Open APIs, Open Business Models, open supply chains, SaaS, smbs, SOA, strategy, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA) | 19 Responses

Social Business and Next-Generation CIOs - Exploring The Macro Conditions

Social Business and Next-Generation CIOs – Exploring The Macro Conditions

By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 2, 2010

Ray Wang began an excellent discussion last month that highlighted the major shifts and disruptive forces that the modern CIO faces today. It’s a given with most executives these days that the business landscape is quite a different one than it was just two short years ago. As part of this, many long-held assumptions and […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business Models, cios, Crowdsourcing, enterprise, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, Open APIs, Open Business Models, social business, social computing, transformation

A New Vision for SOA Governance:  A Focus on the Social Aspect

A New Vision for SOA Governance: A Focus on the Social Aspect

By Dion Hinchcliffe on January 12, 2010

It almost a truism that cultural and organizational factors — these include politics, information silos, “tribal” interests, and effective change management — generally determine the success or failure of a major IT initiative in most organizations today. While “big bang” strategic projects and infrastructure upgrades are notoriously fraught with peril, particularly when it comes to […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged adoption, API, Collective intelligence, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Computing, Governance, Industry Trends, ISO 20000, Organizational culture, people, process, Project failures, Service-oriented architecture, SOA, SOA Governance, Social, social computing, technology, TOGAF 9, Val IT

How Cloud Commoditization Will Transform Enterprise Computing

How Cloud Commoditization Will Transform Enterprise Computing

By Dion Hinchcliffe on December 23, 2009

The announcement last week of Amazon’s new EC2 Spot Instances was more than just another move considerably ahead of the rest of the industry by that forward-looking cloud computing leader. Spot Instances also heralds the beginnings of a real trading…

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged agility, Amazon, Business, Cloud Computing, enterprise, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, innovation, spot market, tco, Technology / Software, value | 1 Response

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