What’s New at Dreamforce 2011 ~ #DF11

A life audience of 46,000 people just finished listening to #keynote11 of the Dreamforce ‘’11 Conference with their heads in status ‘data overload’.  Lots to digest and integrate into the new futures of a many an enterprise. I thought to share with you some take-always:   Dreamforce11 META-VIEW: **  It’s audience of 46,000 is even [...]

Heroku Supports Java on Cloud Application Platform

Heroku now supports Java on the Heroku Cloud Application Platform, the company announced yesterday. Heroku decided on Java because of its popularity and its solidity as a language for building web apps.  It’s the fourth language supported, besides Ruby, Node.js and Clojure. With Java  being the world’s most popular programming, this is exciting news for [...]

VMworld 2011 or Dreamforce 11

Tough decision where to fly next week, if you’re interested in cloud computing. Two top international cloud conferences are on:  VMworld 2011 will be held in Las Vegas from August 29 till September 1.  Locations: The Venetian & The Wynn. Dreamforce ‘11 will be held in San Francisco’s Moscone Center almost at the same time [...]

New Leadership at FrontRange Solutions Help Desk Software

FrontRange Solutions, one of the core 6 ITIL Helpdesk Software suppliers, is appointing proven executive Mike Kohlsdorf as its new CEO, effective immediately. A quick competitive note on this management appointment: Good Match, Good Time From an outsider’s perspective, it might be good timing and a good match for both parties. Mr. Kohlsdorf has more [...]

Apple: Steve Jobs Resigns

Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple Tim Cook Named CEO Steve Jobs Elected Chairman of the Board.   Yesterday Steve Jobs stepped down as CEO of Apple. The Apple Board of Directors announced that Tim Cook, would replace him in this role; and that Steve Jobs has been elected Chairman of the Board. Cook [...]

Salesforce.com’s Growth

Last week’s Announcement of Salesforce.com first quarter’s results revealed an annual revenue forecast of better than $2b for  2011. Very good. However, the numbers below the top line reveal that Salesforce.com’s prior accelerated growth rate is tamed. Should we be sad about it? We think not. Prior-year growth figures were in the order of a [...]

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Released

Latest version Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 for on-premises and partner-hosted deployments released today. And with this, Microsoft now covers all options. With this current Microsoft Dynamics CRM release, client companies can choose: hosted online (aka cloud computing), hosted on their own corporate premises, or hosted by a partner. Benefits & Features of new Microsoft Dynamics [...]

How the World of Work Will Change

At D8 in June (8th edition of the conference “D: All Things Digital”), Steve Jobs made some interesting remarks about how its organization was run. He said: “One of the keys to Apple is that it is an incredibly collaborative company. But there are no committees. Organized like a start up. The biggest start up [...]

Top 10 Forces to Impact Outsourcing & IT Services Industry

Industry analyst & research firm, Gartner, Inc., identified 10 major forces that are actively reshaping the future of IT services and the outsourcing market ~ it stated in a press release last week. “Buyers, providers and investors in the IT services market confront the same confluence of market and technological forces, even though their approaches [...]

95% of Organizations Grow Use of Software As A Service (press release)

Gartner Survey Indicates More Than 95 Percent of Organizations Expect to Maintain or Grow Their Use of SaaS Through 2010 More than 95 percent of organizations expect to maintain or grow their use of software as a service (SaaS), according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. Survey respondents cited significant integration requirements and a change [...]

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