Some reflections on the Software Asset Management Summit in Chicago this week. This is the first of several posts. SAM Summit seminar First, I need to compliment Steven Russman and his team for a successful event. Held in several graduate seminar rooms in the University of Chicago’s Gleacher Center, the environment was quiet, collaborative and...
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Social media’s potential for improving IT management has been a hot topic recently. ServiceNow continues to emphasize the collaborative nature of their platform, and CA is also bringing forth new solutions here with their OpenSpace technology. Improving teamwork, leveraging community expertise, and empowering the end user are all important objectives and (as I’ll note in...
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Some reflections on the Software Asset Management Summit in Chicago this week. This is the first of several posts. SAM Summit seminar First, I need to compliment Steven Russman and his team for a successful event. Held in several graduate seminar rooms in the University of Chicago’s Gleacher Center, the environment was quiet, collaborative and...
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posted by Julie Craig | June 24, 2011 | 0 Comments
This has been an extremely busy spring for me, and I have been remiss in terms of blog entries. However I did want to briefly discuss some key takeaways from IBM’s recent Innovate conference, the annual get-together for Rational partners, customers, and sundry press and analysts. As always, it was an energetic, dynamic event, but...
Posted in IT Management, Julie Craig Tags: Capgemini, cloud computing, DevOps, IBM
posted by Shawn Rogers | June 21, 2011 | 0 Comments
It was great to catch up with Arvind Krishna GM Information Management, IBM at Enzee Universe today. He covered a wide range of topics that include the IBM/Netezza acquisition and the ongoing synergy between them. We discussed the impact of appliances in the overall data ecosystem, new technologies around analytics and where Netezza will support...
Posted in Business Intelligence, Shawn Rogers Tags: Data warehouse, IBM, InfoWorld, Netezza
posted by Shawn Rogers | June 21, 2011 | 0 Comments
Image by tvanhoosear via Flickr The best part of events like Enzee Universe is getting to see friends and fellow analyst. I’ve known Merv for the better part of 15 years and he always brings interesting insights to any subject matter. Merv presented Extreme Information Management practices to the #enzee11 audience and explained where Big...
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posted by Shawn Rogers | June 21, 2011 | 0 Comments
Image by tvanhoosear via Flickr It was great to catch up with Netezza President Jim Baum just after his keynote yesterday. Jim covered a wide variety of topics in his talk that included his views of the Intelligent Economy, the synergy of Netezza and IBM, the impact of appliances in analytic environments and the announcement...
Posted in Business Intelligence, Shawn Rogers Tags: Data Warehousing, IBM, Jim Baum, Netezza
Posted in Charles Betz, IT Management Tags: Enterprise software, IBM, Software Asset Management
posted by Shawn Rogers | June 20, 2011 | 0 Comments
Enzee Universe is off to a great start this morning and as the Official Conference Blogger I’m looking forward to bringing you some of the highlights of the event. The program kicks off with a full day session lead by David Birmingham author of Netezza Underground covering Netezza best practices. This afternoon I’ll get the...
Posted in Business Intelligence, Shawn Rogers Tags: IBM, Netezza
posted by Shawn Rogers | June 16, 2011 | 0 Comments
Data virtualization is finding its way into many data ecosystems. Its a technology that is maturing fast and offering sophisticated features that solve enterprise level data access challenges. Traditional ETL/ELT can be time consuming and costly, data virtualization is providing an alternative. I recommend that you take a look at the companies who are focusing...
Posted in Business Intelligence, Shawn Rogers Tags: Data virtualization
