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October 13, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
CIOs are increasingly open to new, alternative IT operating models, which also could mean new vendor relationships. A grinding recession, paired with new choices in terms of online software, mobile computing, outsourcing, open source, and more, opens the door to this change according to Information Week article titled “Alternate IT”.
September 28, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
David Clark is a former Managing Partner for Gartner UK Consulting. Prior to that, he has been in senior positions at a few of the other “tier one” consulting firms and a couple of enjoyable stints as a CIO positions in industry. His career spans about 25 years during which time he has delivered around [...]
September 2, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
According to InformationWeek article titled “4 Technologies That Are Reshaping Business Intelligence” Next-generation BI is being formed by predictive analytics, real-time monitoring, in-memory processing, and SaaS. Doug Henschen author of this article writes why business intelligence initiatives continue to top CIO priorities …
July 27, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 2 Comments
Here are 10 important aspects of Cloud computing according eWeek print article (July 20, 2009) titled “10 things you should know now about Cloud Storage and Computing”.
June 24, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
SAP unveiled their new strategy for delivering software over the internet, as the German software group struggles to respond to a market that poses a significant long-term threat to its business according to the FT.com article “SAP reshapes strategy for online software”. Also read WSJ article “SAP to make Online Software Push”.
SaaS (Software as a [...]
January 21, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 2 Comments
Software as a Service is not a ‘game-changer’ in the enterprise software market. According to Information Week, listed below are the 6 things that must happen for SaaS to gain widespread acceptance in 2009. Click here to read the entire article.
1) Get Commitment from Microsoft, Oracle and SAP: Although Salesforce.com, Google and other startups are [...]
December 10, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
In the WSJ blog titled ‘Tech Spending to Grow 1.6% in 2009’, Ben Worthen writes that “businesses and other organizations in the U.S. will spend $573 billion on computer software, hardware and services next year, just 1.6% more than they spent in 2008”. This data is according to Forrester Research. Forrester had initially predicted U.S. [...]
November 20, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
Forrester Research reports that currently SaaS-based IT management tools accounts for about 1% of the $18 billion IT management software market. But that is about to change and SaaS is set to account for 10% of the IT Management Software market by 2013. It’s not just the small or start-up companies but there is surprising [...]
August 11, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Anything as a Service (XaaX) is potentially game-changing technology that could reshape IT according to the CIO Insight article ‘Cloud Computing: Anything as a Service’. Amazon, Google and Salesforce.com have the most mature offerings. Other companies like IBM, AT&T, and Verizon are jumping on the ‘cloud’ bandwagon. Will it attract large number of customers?
I think [...]
July 18, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
Microsoft announced its “Oslo” strategy last year as part of an overall service oriented architecture (SOA) initiative, but Oslo is about much more than SOA. It is Microsoft’s core modeling technology that will help take Microsoft deep into the cloud. This, according to eWeek’s article Oslo: Road to Microsoft’s Cloud.
Article quotes Steven Martin, senior [...]
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Raj Sheelvant has more than 15 years of varied experience in the field of Information Technology and is passionate about aligning IT with Business needs.
Raj strongly believes that IT can be leveraged to create, sustain and enable Business Strategy. This is a blog that demonstrates value added by IT to the Strategy
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