Top 10 Government IT Innovators Of 2013 (click image for larger view) Gartner research director Richard Watson once observed, “When the CIO issues the straightforward directive: ‘Move some applications to the cloud,’ architects face bewildering choices about tips on how to try this, and their decision must consider an organization’s requirements, evaluation criteria and architecture principles.” Unfortunately, many architects assume that migrating your legacy systems means migrating your applications to the cloud. However, the truth is that this sort of migration involves both data migration and alertness migration. Each of those need to be assessed, planned, designed and executed separately after which integrated. They’re two parts of the identical migration of a legacy system, but each requires different analysis steps and different skill sets. Webcasts More >> White Papers More >> Reports More >> By concentrating on your data migration separately out of your application migration, you may guantee that both will scale properly. It’s worth noting that government agencies are taking the lead during... Read More »

As disruptive technologies change our enterprises, we also needs to rethink our way to IT investments. During the early days of the net boom, an investor friend posited that while the online might make a car manufacturer’s business marginally more efficient, it was still well-nigh the automobile. In that regard, he asserted that the web was only a new phone, and that the carmaker’s core business was unlikely to modify. It seemed reasonable on the time. Today now we have all types of examples that demonstrate my friend was wrong. Disruptive technologies are upsetting the applecart forever in ways we won’t predict. Today, every business is a digital business. In case your organization cannot adapt, it may perish in a short time. As technology has advanced, the enterprise itself has changed. Let’s call it Enterprise with an incredible E. The new Enterprise now is dependent upon all kinds of integrated partners, from suppliers, to intermediaries, to colleagues, to customers, to citizens, directly and indirectly participating... Read More »

Microsoft’s pact with DocuSign promises seamless e-signature tools for Office 365 users and will stimulate interest in Office apps. Microsoft In 2013: 7 Lessons Learned (Click image for larger view and for slideshow.) Microsoft Office 365 customers will soon manage to sign documents electronically without outside applications — a capability that might help businesses to embrace the paperless office ideal. Users will gain the feature attributable to an extended-term partnership Microsoft announced Monday with the prominent e-signature company DocuSign. The deal could help stimulate developer interest in Microsoft’s fledgling Office App Store. It also adds to a growing list of capabilities Microsoft has infused into Office 365 to distinguish the cloud-based subscription service from traditional standalone versions. Last week, as an illustration, the corporate released its Power BI suite of commercial intelligence tools for Office 365. DocuSign’s tools could be available in early March as a freemium add-on distributed during the Office Store. It is going to be integrated into Outlook, Word, SharePoint Online, and... Read More »

It’s easy to lose track of the inside track streaming out of a giant-scale event like this week’s 11,000-attendee IBM Information On Demand (IOD) conference in Las Vegas. It is all the tougher given IBM’s penchant for spinning high-concept yarns about “smart,” “predictive” and “cognitive” capabilities which will make sense of the unfathomable “2.5 quintillion bytes of information” that IBM says the realm generates daily. Not like Microsoft, Oracle and SAP, IBM is way less inclined to discuss discrete products than it’s capabilities which might be assembled into solutions with the aid of IBM Global Business Services consultants with deep industry expertise. Webcasts More >> White Papers More >> Reports More >> But announcements are form of obligatory at big annual tech events, and IBM served up various them at IOD, including a mixture of recently released and shortly-to-be-released big data and analytics services and capabilities. Listed below are key highlights of what is new, what’s coming and what distinguishes IBM’s offerings from similar-sounding offerings... Read More »

CEO Marissa Mayer launches new products, showcases a media company emerging from years of rudderless leadership. CES 2014: 8 Technologies To Watch (Click image for larger view and slideshow.) Yahoo is reborn. At CES 2014, CEO Marissa Mayer announced acquisitions and initiatives designed to further the turnaround she began after being appointed to guide the corporate in July 2012. Mayer had a lot of star power to draw attention to her initiatives. She was joined by journalists Katie Couric and David Pogue; both recently left jobs in traditional media to assist Mayer remake Yahoo as an online and mobile media company. Singer John Legend and cast members from “Saturday Night Live” also appeared. Mayer made it clear that Yahoo is targeted on mobile as a minimum up to the net, its traditional strength. She announced the purchase of Aviate, an organization that makes a homescreen launcher app for Android devices. Just as Yahoo curates online page, Aviate curates apps — evidently smartphones now have such... Read More »