Savvy chief information and technology officers have always known that IT capabilities could deliver more than efficient, repeatable business practices. Many CIOs and CTOs understand that a well-designed and fully leveraged technology strategy can usher in breakthroughs and competitively disruptive capabilities. With this in mind, CIOs can focus on an important question: How can technology become an enabler for innovation? This is a particularly sensitive point in today’s changing business world. Easy-access to technology is toppling the barriers of entry to innovation and giving rise to a new class of…

Enterprise will spend an estimated US$16.3bn on middleware software in 2015, an increase of 9.3% on a year-on-year basis, according to Ovum’s recently published *2015 Trends to Watch: Integration and Middleware report.   London, 10 December 2014 – Saurabh Sharma, Senior Analyst, Infrastructure Solutions and author of this report says, “With the ever-increasing need to “do more with less”, enterprises will be keen to adopt agile approaches to integration. Therefore, a significant share of the budget for integration projects will be spent on infrastructure modernization, including the adoption of new mobile and…

The smart connected device (SCD) market posted another quarter of growth in Western Europe, driven mainly by increased demand for personal computers. According to figures published by International Data Corporation (IDC), PC, tablet, and smartphone shipments totaled 60.1 million units, with volume 8.6% higher compared with the same quarter a year ago. London, December 9, 2014 —The trends seen during the previous quarter were confirmed in the third quarter of 2014: shipments of PCs continued to post an increase, with demand shifting towards desktops and portable PCs after few years of…

The benefits of going with an enterprise startup are diverse — from affordable pricing to funding R&D to accessing unique expertise.  Large enterprises and startup ventures are seldom uttered in the same breath. But there are some excellent reasons for enterprises to consider using a startup. 1: Influence Companies like the feeling that they have influence over the projects and technologies their vendors develop. Startups offer their customers a golden opportunity for this because in early startup phases, their customers are their lifeblood. They do everything possible to satisfy their…

The development of the Internet of things seems inevitable, but security, interoperability and privacy remain as challenges to its full deployment. Photo courtesy of engagor The era of the so-called Internet of things has been talked about so much in tech circles the past few years that some may think it’s already here. But smartwatches, Google Glass and clothing embedded with sensors hardly represent a full mainstream deployment of the system. So what has to happen to make the Internet of things (or IoT, as it’s sometimes called) more accessible…