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Microland in global partnership with ChangeBASE

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By Real_Wire - Posted on 03 March 2010

Partnership to help Microland deliver high quality compatibility & remediation services to customers globally

Bangalore, March, 2010 – Microland Limited, India’s largest specialist IT Infrastructure Services Company, today announced a global partnership with ChangeBASE AOK, the global leader in automated application compatibility testing and remediation. With the addition of ChangeBASE AOK application compatibility testing and remediation capabilities to its Offshore Transformation Center (OTC) solution suite, Microland will now be able to offer an automated one stop shop for ascertaining and addressing compatibility issues of various applications while migrating to a new operating platform (such as Windows 7) to its customers globally.  The partnership will help the company deliver a differentiated value proposition in the growing market for remediation requirements for migrations to Windows 7. The partnership would also allow Microland to identify and cater to demand patterns of customers and keep pace with constantly changing vendor and offshore supply environment thus building greater customer confidence and relationships.

Commenting on the partnership, Pradeep Kar, Chairman and Managing Director, Microland Limited, said, “The partnership with ChangeBASE positions us well to take advantage of the growing market for migration services to Windows 7 globally besides allowing us to extend the value proposition we offer to existing customers by adding high quality compatibility and remediation services to it.”

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Cloud Computing Congress – Event Series Taking Place in Europe, North America and Asia in 2010

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By Real_Wire - Posted on 16 December 2009

Six Degrees is launching a new group of events - the Cloud Computing Series (http://www.cloudcomputingseries.com). The first Cloud Computing Congress Europe (http://www.cloudcomputingcongress.com) is taking place on 16th March 2010 at Olympia in London.

The series of events will look at how Cloud Computing is revolutionising information technology in the European, North American, and Asian market. Topics discussed include the latest state of Cloud Computing in the respective markets, its benefits and technical challenges, the impact on the IT function, and how the applications can be build, controlled and managed in a cloud-based environment. 

The Cloud Computing Congress Europe will run alongside Enterprise Social Media (www.enterprisesocialmedia.net) & the Social Media World Forum (www.socialmedia-forum.com), a leading social media event that brings together all industry facets.

I do not like the word Smart

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By Bryan - Posted on 17 November 2009

I was reading an article this morning regarding the use of ARM-based chips in a number of devices including "smartbooks". It appears the industry would like you to now call those smaller and less powerful laptop computers a smartbook instead of netbook.

To describe these devices as a smartbook is idiotic marketing for two reasons. First, "netbook" is a term that has been around for two years and most people today recognize the term being applied to smaller sized notebooks. When you hear the question, "What is a smartbook?" it seems very natural to just answer by replying, "a smartbook is a netbook". Secondly, I have to say it's very moronic (worse than ironic) to call a dumbed-down notebook a smartbook. At least when you say "smartphone" it is in reference to increased functionality over the traditional mobile phone and not less functionality.

I do not like the word "smart" being attached to devices and applications that are far from actually being intelligent on their own. Is marketing that insecure in the devices they're selling that they need to attach the word "smart" to cover up their own lack of intelligence? I have a theory that any time we attach the word "smart" to software or devices it is inviting doom into our lives.

FatWire named an innovative information access company to watch

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By CMS Report - Posted on 09 November 2009

Mineola, NY – November 9, 2009– FatWire Software, the largest independent Web Experience Management (WEM) provider, today announced that the company has been named one of 2009’s innovative information access companies under $100M to watch by IDC, an independent research provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets.

IDC's "Companies to Watch" reports are a qualitative evaluation of a set of vendors within a specific market. In this report, IDC reviewed solutions from technology vendors with less than $100 million in revenue and named those that are driving innovation in information access. These innovators include in their technologies features such as:

  • User interfaces requiring little or no training and incorporating Web 2.0 and social networking capabilities.
  • Unified management of and access to all information types — both data and content — across applications and repositories.
  • Intelligent process automation software that automates repeatable, operational decisions within business process sets in response to events where analytics drives the workflow.

Information access encompasses markets for business intelligence, data warehousing, data integration, search and discovery, and content management (including enterprise content management, web content management (WCM), records management, and digital asset management) software. IDC recognized FatWire based on its advanced WCM solutions, including its core FatWire Content Server offering.

Quoting IT: WSJ on Innovation

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By Bryan - Posted on 02 September 2009

"Innovation initiatives that used to take months and megabucks to coordinate and launch can often be started in seconds for cents."

"This new environment also has big implications for managers. Simply put, bosses must be prepared to give up some control. With testing so cheap, easy and accessible, there's less need to ration it as they have in the past. Managers used to directing the company's innovation efforts must give their workers the freedom to come up with ideas on their own and pursue them without lots of red tape."

"Some of the best experiments come from outside the chain of command."

"Not only do we expect managers to solicit and welcome more ideas from lower down in the ranks, we expect that lots more people will be invited to review experiments and make changes."

-Erik Brynjolfsson and Michael Schrage, "The New, Faster Face of Innovation", The Wall Street Journal, August 17, 2009