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When designing the EMA Radar Report, I was unaware of this video of Gideon Gartner answering a question about the Gartner Magic Quadrant.  I only learned of this on twitter last week. Gideon is asked what he would do different if doing the Magic Quadrant today. His answer…he would use spider diagrams.  This is exactly...

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posted by Shawn Rogers   | February 24, 2011 | 0 Comments

The much awaited 4.0 release for SAP BI and EIM was announced today in NY. It featured a high level of integration with other applications on the platform along with a focus on mobile business intelligence, social data analytics, complex event processing, real-time in-memory analytics with the new HANA – High Performance Analytic Appliance. Additionally...

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posted by Scott Crawford   | February 23, 2011 | 0 Comments

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First of all, let me get one agenda item out of the way: What I expected to see at RSA this past week, I saw.  Sadly, there wasn’t too much in the way of news – but I did see a few things that, perhaps paradoxically, relate to last week’s other high-visibility story in the...

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posted by Julie Craig   | February 20, 2011 | 0 Comments

I’m not a big Jeopardy fan, more from lack of time than lack of interest. However, I couldn’t resist watching this week’s shows, in which Watson “shellacked” the human competition. And as an ex-programmer who has been industry-watching for longer than I care to admit, I have to say a few words about IBM‘s achievement....

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posted by Shawn Rogers   | February 20, 2011 | 0 Comments

B_Incisive: Sr Strategist Anne Scarisbrick-Hauser from #TDWI: In a fire save the priceless desk or $2 CD full of company data?… http://fb.me/PadCGLcs bradbourne: – I AM A CBIP!!!! Passed the last test and I’m official! #tdwi #tdwilv #cbip wjdataguy: Great keynote from @tracykowal! IT folks need to rip a page out of Business 101 textbooks....

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posted by Dennis Drogseth   | February 16, 2011 | 0 Comments

In the research I mentioned in my earlier blog on “Operationalizing Cloud,” we looked at a lot more than technology adoption.  We looked at organizational and process requirements as well. And we also looked at change. As it turned out, 70% of our respondents said that once begun, their cloud initiatives needed rethinking or redirection!!...

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posted by Shawn Rogers   | February 14, 2011 | 0 Comments

I’ve been pretty tough on HP recently (see post) for a lack of strategy and poor communication around their overall business intelligence offerings. They failed in their attempt to leverage NeoView and up till last week looked to be stepping back into their services and hardware partner role. Recent partner announcements with Microsoft and SAP...

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In Part 1 of this blog, I described the information gathered from Application Aware Network Performance Management (ANPM) solutions, as a “key enabler for the increasingly automated management systems of the future”. This blog entry explains why I believe this to be true. Virtually every company with on-premise IT (as opposed to outsourced IT) has...

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posted by Scott Crawford   | February 9, 2011 | 0 Comments

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One of nature’s great migrations will take place once again next week as the IT security world makes its annual pilgrimage to the RSA Conference in San Francisco. (And yes, dear, it means Valentine’s Day spent with a buncha geeks and suits rather than you…go figure.) Herewith a glimpse of some of the main things...

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posted by Julie Craig   | February 2, 2011 | one Comments

As many readers know, my colleague Jim Frey, who leads EMA’s Network Management practice, released groundbreaking research on Application Aware Networking (ANPM) in Q3 of 2010 entitled, “Application Awareness in Network Performance Management”. A free summary is available at: http://www.enterprisemanagement.com/research/asset.php?id=1801. While Jim was working on his report, Dennis Drogseth and I were doing parallel research...

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