posted by Scott Crawford   | July 27, 2011 | 0 Comments

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One of EMA’s advantages in having a base in Colorado is our proximity to a number of thought leaders in identity management, and nowhere is this more evident than at conferences such as the Cloud Identity Summit, an aptly-named event held in recent years here in Colorado’s high country (nearly as close to the clouds...

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posted by Dennis Drogseth   | July 24, 2011 | 0 Comments

Maybe the 21st Century is the Age of Ecosystems.  I suppose the largest for now is our planet.   Taken abstractly, the term “ecosystem” can apply well beyond natural and manmade interdependencies, to political, religious and business- and organizational-driven ecosystems.  And while the concept is a good one, and in some senses a cause for optimism—...

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posted by    | July 18, 2011 | 0 Comments

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As enterprises spend more on cloud options, a new market opportunity is forming: Cloud value management. Surprising, with all the fervor around cloud, that I got exactly ONE hit on Google for that exact term just now. Custon, a Dutch company, gets the credit. (Why am I not surprised this is a Dutch firm? Seems...

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posted by    | July 12, 2011 | 0 Comments

Quick note: CA announced that Clarity, their Project Portfolio Management offering, will use SalesForce.com’s Chatter network. Clarity is already available in an on-demand (SaaS) version. This is an interesting development given that CA also has built an in-house social networking platform for its ITSM suite, OpenSpace, which is also available as SaaS. I predict there...

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