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The concept of “reference architecture” is often misunderstood and gets associated with IT. While the implementation may very well be IT, the reference architecture essentially is a business and operational artefact. As RUP defines, “the referenc…
The previous post of this blog outlined the Big Society Agenda, its context and the concept. Continuing with the January 2011 theme of the Big Society for this blog, this post will analyse how to make Big Society happen and how Information & …
The Time magazine has selected Mark Zuckerberg as the 2010 Person of the Year. In its Person of the Year article Time magazine states, “For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them, for creating a new sys…
I recently attended a Retail Technology Summit here in London where a healthy mix of CIOs, CTOs, and business leaders exchanged, shared and debated the emerging trends of IT in the Retail sector. With technology and business leaders from retail players…
So what we long suspected is now official – Google’s Android is projected to overtake it’s more popular rivals iPhone and Blackberry in coming years. There are more and more exciting phones being launched using Google’s platform – see for instance the …
So where do you go from the position of being the most successful chip maker in the industry? What do you do to evolve your business and revenue model? Well how about buying an antivirus company (sorry! security technology company)? Sounds bizarre? Wel…
Jim Peters, CTO at SITA wrote an interesting blog a few days back – though it started off with an Intel announcement, Jim was really commenting on increasing demand for computing power. I posted the following comment to his blog post.In a sense the bus…
The Cloud offering space is getting rather busy as we expected this summer. Capgemini annoucement of “Immediate” and its pilot with Royal Mail, closely follows other major developments such as IBM’s acquisition of Cast Iron. While IBM claims to get bet…
Wave was supposed to be another jewel in the already crowded Google crown. Surely this next generation communication tool was going to join the ranks of ultra-successful Search, super-popular Mail and upcoming star Android. When Google announced this a…
Folks,In case you have not heard or read about it yet…please do take a note of this. It is a landmark development. It is an event which marks Google’s entry into an industry vertical ecosystem. On July 1, 2010, Google announced an agreement to acquir…
An interesting time to write about cloud, what with the ash cloud from Iceland volcano grounding air travel in and out of Europe to complete halt. Usually the views from my office window are dominated by planes which are either taking-off or landing at…