BriefingsDirect by Dana Gardner
Analyst Dana Gardner examines IT news and trends that impact software strategists to provide insights and outcomes on SOA, app dev, SaaS, enterprise infrastructure and mobile convergence.

Ariba LIVE roadmap debrief with solutions manager Chris Haydon

Ariba Vice President Chris Haydon explains the company's latest news and offers insights into how Ariba will be broadening its services procurement management value, mobile push, and AribaPay rollout.

HP Software delivers integrated management for apps deployment

HP Software today announced four products that aim to tackle the thorny reality that traditional apps deployment is broken, and that the new requirements make automation and comprehensive management an inescapable necessity.

Thomas Duryea Consulting provides insights into how leading adopters successfully solve cloud risks

Leading Australian IT services provider Thomas Duryea Consulting made a successful journey to cloud computing as a business, and a cloud-of-clouds approach is providing new types of IT services to their many Asia-Pacific region customers.

Ariba and Discover to transform B2B payments with cloud-based AribaPay

New cloud-based service leverages applications and insights within Ariba Network to streamline and enhance settlement and reconciliation of business commerce.

Dell's Foglight for Virtualization update extends visibility and management control

Dell Software this week delivered Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition to extend the depth and breadth of managing and optimizing server virtualization as well as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).

Service Virtualization brings speed benefit and lower costs to TTNET applications testing

TTNET, the largest internet service provider in Turkey, with six million subscribers, significantly improved applications deployment while cutting costs and time to delivery.

Rush to enable enterprise mobile development pits native against container approaches

In  mobile app development, we're seeing a major philosophical split between the "nativists" (running directly on the device hardware) and the "virtualizers" (with their scripting and interpretive layers and containers).

nCrypted Cloud adds security and privacy to cloud-based storage services

Boston-based startup nCrypted Cloud recently launched software of the same name designed to address the security and privacy concerns that have emerged with the use of popular cloud-based storage services.

On the road to Sydney: The Open Group gets to bottom of the latest in business architecture

The Open Group’s first conference in Australia will focus on enterprise transformation. Speakers and a variety of sessions will place the transformation in the context of such vertical industries as finance, defense, exploration, mining, and minerals.

Indiana health care provider goes fully virtualized, gains head start on BYOD and DR benefits

Associated Surgeons and Physicians, LLC in Indiana went from zero to 100 percent virtualized infrastructure, and in the process, met many compliance and efficiency goals.

Gaining greater cohesion: Bringing business analysis and business architecture into focus

Many people face a challenge in building cohesion in a business, achieving the right balance between competing forces and bringing the business strategy and operations into harmony.

Dutch insurance giant Achmea deploys 'ERP for IT' to reinvent IT processes

Achmea Holding, one of the largest providers of financial services and insurance in the Netherlands, has made large strides in running their IT operations like an efficient business itself by rearchitecting its IT operations based on clear metrics.

Cloud, mobile bringing new value to Agile development methods, even in bite-sized chunks

Agile software development is increasingly enabling developers to better create applications that meet user needs quickly, and the advent of increased mobile apps development is further accelerating its power.

Complexity from big data and cloud trends makes architecture tools more powerful

Simultaneous and complex trends, such as big data, cloud computing, security, and overall IT transformation, can be helped by the combined strengths of The Open Group Architecture Framework and the ArchiMate modeling language.

The Open Group panel explores how the Big Data era now challenges the IT status quo

Large enterprises should not just wade into big data as an isolated function, but should anticipate the strategic effects and impacts of big data -- as well the simultaneous complicating factors of cloud computing and mobile -- as soon as possible.

Big Data success depends on better risk management practices like FAIR, say conference panelists

A panel of experts explores how large enterprises are delivering better risk assessments and risk analysis, and how big data can be both an area to protect, but also a tool for understanding and mitigating risks.

Three best practices for implementing enterprise architecture

The implementation of EA means that an organization adopts processes for the development and governance of EA artifacts and deliverables.

US Department of Energy: Proving the cloud service broker model

A new sub-market of the broader cloud-computing market has emerged: the cloud service broker, but the market has yet to fully define it.

Ford scours for more big data to bolster quality, improve manufacturing, streamline processes

Ford Motor Company has scoured the metrics from the company’s best processes across myriad manufacturing efforts and through detailed outputs from in-use automobiles -- all to improve and help transform their business.

Latest Jitterbit release further eases application and data integration from among modern sources

Jitterbit's integration solution is designed to be the glue between on-premise, cloud, mobile and social data and applications

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About the Author(s)
  • Dana Gardner is president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, an enterprise IT analysis, market research, and consulting firm. Gardner, a leading identifier of software and cloud productivity trends and new IT business growth opportunities, honed his skills and refined his insights as an industry analyst, pundit, and news editor covering the emerging software development and enterprise infrastructure arenas for the last 18 years. Gardner tracks and analyzes a critical set of enterprise software technologies and business development issues: Cloud computing, SOA, business process management, business intelligence, next-generation data centers, and application lifecycle optimization. His specific interests include Enterprise 2.0 and social media, cloud standards and security, as well as integrated marketing technologies and techniques. Gardner is a former senior analyst at Yankee Group and Aberdeen Group, and a former editor-at-large and founding online news editor at InfoWorld. He is a former news editor at IDG News Service, Digital News & Review, and Design News.


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