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ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS BLOG

IBM's Cloud Conflict of Interest
12. 2.2008

David Linthicum

I have no issue with IBM driving into the world of cloud computing — I figured it would. But just think about the larger hardware and software players — such as IBM and Microsoft, who are now moving toward the cloud — and the potential conflicts that could occur. In essence, your cable TV provider is offering to show you how to move to Satellite TV.

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Rajan Chandras

SAP Pays Price for SaaS Maturation
12. 1.2008
SAP CEO-in-waiting Leo Apotheker's recent comments on the company's SaaS ERP solution were very illuminating, and highlight one of the key challenges ahead for cloud computing vendors (and hence customers). SAP's Business ByDesign is "the coolest app ever written," according to Apotheker. Yet, he admits, it's a bad time, financially, for doing a big market push — "hurting our margin, and hurting our stock."

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RSS Is the New Personalization
11.24.2008

Kas Thomas

A recent press release concerning ArnoldIT's Google monitoring service piqued my interest. It turns out to be a nicely formatted aggregation page for Google blogs... The point worth emphasizing is that as Web content becomes more granular, compositional, and personalizable (not to mention more perishable), subscribability becomes a design consideration.

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Doug Henschen

Making Money With Mashups
11.21.2008
I'm back from this week's Mashup Camp in Mountain View, CA, and I came away impressed with both the event and my first real "unconference" experience. The 300 or so (mostly) developers attending were not only passionate and engaged, they drove much of the content, and at least 14 whipped up entries for the climax of the event, the Best Mashup Contest.

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ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS INSIGHT

Three Ways to Link Execution to Strategy
November 22, 2008
by Doug Henschen
Performance management guru David Norton tackles the challenge of aligning day-to-day decisions with big-picture strategy.

Performance Management: Link Operational Decisions to Strategy
November 22, 2008
by Doug Henschen
Go beyond BI to give decisions makers at all levels the data they need to make the right business decisions.

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ENTERPRISE APPS NEWS & ANALYSIS

Gallup Extends BI to the World of Research
Famous polling firm taps Oracle BI Enterprise Edition for internal reporting and customer self-service access to research results.

SAP, Business Objects Offer Joint Data Migration Services
The latest offering consists of a framework, templates, methodology, tools and expertise in moving data from multiple computing environments to an SAP ERP system.

Panorama Taps Google Apps For Collaboration In Reporting
Panaorma is using Google Apps' spreadsheets within NovaView SharedViews to make it possible for customers and partners to share reports by simply clicking on a button.

Amazon Opens SimpleDB To Unlimited Public Beta
To help entice businesses to at least try out its cloud computing-integrated database service, Amazon is offering a free tier of usage for the next six months.

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WHITE PAPERS

•Ingres and Forrester: Open or Closed? Why You Need a Strategy for Open Source in Your Organization

•Automated Testing Solution Accelerates System Deployment

•Beyond Job Scheduling: The Road to Enterprise Process Automation

•Server Virtualization Security: 90% Process, 10% Technology

•The Cloud on Your Terms: Your Apps, Where and When You Want Them

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ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS TOPICS

The Enteprise Applications channel offers thought leadership from experts including Bruce Silver, Nelson King, Kas Thomas and Shawn Shell. You'll also find news coverage, trend analysis, Q&A interviews and case studies on the following topics:

Composite Applications and SOA

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Enterprise Application Development

Enterprise Application Integration

Enterprise Resource Planning

Mobile Applications

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Supply Chain Management

Enterprise Apps REVIEWS

• Rich Internet Apps the Microsoft Way

• Put to the Test: Best Smartphone Platforms For Business

• Put to the Test: Google Search Appliance Version 5