How To Become Just Enough of A Software Company To Succeed
I’m told by people who would know that Jeff Bezos thinks of Amazon as a software company, not a retailer or an e-commerce company.
The Strengths and Limits of Automatically Created APIs
The implications of Automatically Created APIs.
The Lessons of Google Play for API Designers and Enterprise Architects
In a fascinating article about the architecture of Android, Ron Amadeo explains how Google is systematically freeing itself from the grip of the device vendors.
Accelerating the Digital Transformation
A digital transformation is forcing everyone to think fast and act fast.
Research Note: Actian’s Strategy for Distributed Big Data
Actian CEO Steve Shine, drives company growth to meet big data challenges.
Top 3 Mistakes in Sales Gamification
Common mistakes to avoid when using gamification in sales and real-world examples on how to get it right.
The Application Incompleteness Theorem
When it was revealed in 1931, the world of mathematics and logic was shocked by Kurt Godels' Incompleteness Theorem, which holds that there are certain statements in every axiomatic system that are neither true nor false.
Byron Sebastian, CEO of Heroku, Research Interview Recap
I last talked to Byron Sebastian just after Heroku was acquired by Salesforce.com and wrote these two stories.
How Can You Accelerate the Requirements Process?
Less than one-third of all software projects are delivered on time, on budget, or with required features and functions.
A Fatal Flaw For Open Source
In a recent interview with Forbes, Treb Ryan explains his analysis of how the multi-tenant architecture used for most large software-as-a-service applications will become dominant and present a challenge to the relevance and importance of a large amount of open source software.
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Everybody knows about IRS audits. Much less well understood are Oracle audits where the software behemoth comes into a company and – much as the IRS wields the proverbial fine-toothed comb to hunt for irregularities – Oracle uses its version of a fine-toothed comb to sift through a company’s software library and its licenses. Every piece of software is inspected, and so are the appropriate Oracle licenses and contracts.
There comes a time in the life of every important technology where the CEO gets interested and wants to know what the fuss is all about. That time has come for Spark.
How is your organization going to harness the power of mobile devices? In many ways, the answer to this question is a proxy for your approach to technology in general.
Creation of VMs from a golden image can be automated, but the requirements are not easy to discover.