Cloud Computing: Answering the real world questions July 14, 2010
Posted by Dhirendra Yadav in Everything Under The Cloud.Tags: Cloud Computing
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Given the current IT scenario which changes by the hour, and where change is the need of the hour we have to deliver more with minimal resources. In other words we need to “DO MORE WITH LESS”. Today everything is service-oriented & to add to that an economy recovering from a recession has added more fuel in enterprises choosing Service Offerings over On-Premise applications. (more…)
Legacy Modernization – Strategic Choices April 25, 2010
Posted by Somenath Nag in Distributed Engineering.Tags: Legacy, Legacy Modernization, Migration, Modernization Strategy, Re-engineering
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Internet blog sites and technology portals are full today with different articles on legacy product modernization. A lot has been written on legacy product modernization in the past few years, including different approaches. merits & demerits, business values, and tools. Most of the blogs, articles, analyst reports, and white papers discuss at a high level why one should modernize and then get straight into the chosen approach they wanted to highlight. Very few articles have talked about the most important part of the legacy product modernization, that is strategy. (more…)
Chaos Calls – Navigating the New April 14, 2010
Posted by Suresh Iyer in Travel Technology.Tags: Travel Technology, Phocuswright, Travdex
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Recently, PhoCusWright President and CEO, Philip Wolf, previewed the theme for the upcoming PhocusWright Conference, “Chaos Calls—Navigating the New,” at PhoCusWright@ITB in Berlin. The theme examines the unique forces that are collectively transforming travel, tourism and hospitality.
According to this announcement, as with prior PhoCusWright themes that are relied upon as industry bellwethers, this year’s event challenges everyone to articulate what a successful strategy looks like in 2010 and beyond. The theme explores the five tenets that all travel companies—large and small, startup and established, supplier and intermediary, leisure and corporate, traditional and technical—are compelled to confront:
1. Disparate Devices and Channels
2. Strains on Search
3. Tapping New Travelers
4. See Me, Hear Me, Touch Me
5. Significant Surprise
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Office Business Applications for ISV’s – Part II April 8, 2010
Posted by Pankaj Sabnis in Redmond Rumblings.Tags: ISV, Office Business Applications
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In my previous post, I discussed about Office Business Applications (OBA’s) and the various scenarios in which ISV’s can leverage the power of OBA’s to increase their customer base and get more ROI on their products. In this post, I would focus my energies on how ISV’s can leverage their existing expertise to develop OBA’s and how to plan and develop re-usable OBA’s. I would also touch base on Office 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 from perspective of a development platform. (more…)
Windows Phone 7 – Microsoft Making a Mark in the Mobile World! March 30, 2010
Posted by mehulkshah in Redmond Rumblings.Tags: Windows Phone 7
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So, finally, we will have a touchscreen phone device that does not quite look like iPhone [a la BlackBerry Storm, Android etc] but looks refreshingly different. Microsoft’s recently launched Windows Phone 7 Series promises to infuse new competition into the mobile market which has largely been captured by Apple for 3 years despite desperate attempts by the competitors. While the mobile MP3 player market is more or less a done deal with iPod’s success [ZuneHD is a seriously good device but too late to the market], smartphone market still has appetite for newer devices given that it integrates lots of use cases and experiences into one piece of hardware.
Expectedly, Microsoft has corrected a few of their past mistakes with WP7s (more…)
