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SAP study: Brazil, China, Germany and India 'most ready' for M2M tech
A new international survey pinpoints where machine-to-machine technology has the best chance to enable smarter cities right now. According to the report, nearly a third of respondents from IT departments in each of the six markets included in the study replied that smart cities would be the "coolest possible outcome" of M2M.
However, it might take a while for these dreams to be realised — not just because we have to wait for more M2M solutions to be developed and deployed, but also because only 38 percent of survey participants were able to correctly define the M2M acronym itself.
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Enabling IT Innovation in the Life Science Arena
The tension between IT and the business exists in nearly all vertical markets, and while some tension can be healthy, it seems particularly acute in life sciences organisations. In a recent interview with Jim Winburn, expounded on a few of the most pressing challenges-to-innovation that Clinical Research Organisations and life science companies in general, face in their application delivery initiatives.
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What BYOD really means for today’s CIO
The Corporate CIO has been dealing with the impending threat of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) for quite some time. Now that this trend has been around for a while we can really begin to unpack and understand what this means for today’s CIO and how they can best deal with it.
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Application PaaS "Value Engineering" with an ERP
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ERP Enterprises have spent heavily on their ERP systems over the last couple of years and many are now considering implementing application PaaS solutions in order to extract real value from the investment they have made. But what are the potential approaches and benefits one could accrue by linking your "system of record" with an aPaaS product?
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The Massive M2M Business Opportunity for Telcos
Telcos are sitting on a gold mine of core capabilities and assets, critical for M2M success. In addition to just network connectivity, they have outstanding expertise in large scale service delivery with high reliability and global reach, plus an arsenal of partners for content, apps, specialized solutions and services, integration, as well as terminal and module vendors.
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The Future of PaaS: What Its Evolution Means for Software Development
The cloud infrastructure of Platform as a Service (PaaS) usually is promoted as a benefit to the datacenter and sysadmin staff. But creating software in the cloud impacts how development teams work, including process changes, speed of development (especially mobile), and IT-business collaboration.
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SAP adds MaxAttention support option for custom apps
SAP is now offering its MaxAttention support service to companies with software that was designed and built by SAP's custom development organisation, in a move that caters to customers with complicated environments and also stands to capture additional, lucrative maintenance revenue.
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SAP's renewed focus on cloud services
Global business solutions leader SAP announced at Saphila 2012, Africa’s biggest SAP User Group conference, that the acquisition of Ariba into the SAP family has accelerated SAP’s cloud growth strategy. Several Saphila keynote sessions will be dedicated to showcasing innovative cloud technologies and highlighting their potential for making businesses run significantly better. Last week, SAP said in its Q3 earnings announcement that the company had raised to $4.3 billion its 2012 software revenue
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SAP Acquisition of Ariba Is Approved
Four months after SAP announced its plan to acquire Ariba, the leading cloud-based business commerce network, the purchase has been approved by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Modernisation of IT: Are we building applications to support the business?
During an interview with a top-notch exec he discussed how transforming a huge investment in existing IT infrastructure into a new dynamic, extensible and agile platform that would propel the business forward - not hold it back. This guy is busy figuring out how to keep a Boeing 777 up in the air while simultaneously re-fitting aircraft to make it best-in-class.
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Business savvy CIO’s in demand
As companies rush to implement technologies that drive down cost and get to grips with mobile and on demand that managers expect as given, a quick look at the recruitment pages shows that strategy savvy CIO’s are in demand
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IT consumerisation, the cloud, and the alleged death of the CIO
As with just about any area, IT is a discipline subject to fads and memes, “received truths” that seem to arise in the press or the blogsosphere and then ricochet around the echo chamber until they sound plausible even to skeptics. A number of these roll across my Twitter stream every day. But one such meme rises so high to the top that it has to be the sole focus here. And that is the much-repeated “death of the CIO"
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SAP unveils app store
According to SAP, developers will get 85% of the app revenue, with SAP taking the remaining 15%. Paul Webel, SAP Africa GM, says SAP's medium- to long-term strategy is to allow users to consume its applications on multiple devices. He says SAP is targeting ... (Read Full Article)
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Consumerization: Why the Workplace of Tomorrow Looks Like The Internet
The workplace of tomorrow will look like a lot of things actually, including the Internet; just not a whole lot like the way our organizations look today. For one, the workplace itself has steadily begun to disappear as teleworking becomes more and more prevalent, though the latest data shows this will take longer than other more imminent changes. These other disruptive forces, such as next-gen mobility, social networking, cloud computing, and big data, are so close at hand that most organizations are already extensively affected by them. It’s not a stretch to say they are eclipsing how IT is applied to business in many ways, even as IT shops are significantly underestimating their current impact, according to brand new research from Unisys. (Read Full Article)
HR: Are You Ready for Mobile Diversity?
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More and more mobile devices are showing up at work, whether sanctioned by IT or not. iPhones and iPads, Androids, Blackberries, … today’s workers bring with them the tools with which they are most comfortable in order to get work done. Have you embraced the usage of personal devices in the workplace (a “bring your own device” or “BYOD” policy), or does your company have policies against using non-company sanctioned devices for work related activities? Even if prohibited, you can bet there are employees using their personal technologies (phones, tables, laptops) for at least some information sharing related to work, verbally if not actual data sharing. Similarly, despite any limitations you may have on accessing external social sites while at work, surveys show that employees will find ways to circumvent those policies.
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The consumerisation of It – beware common assumptions: IDC
The technology might exist to provide employees with access to applications and data while mobile, but do they want it? Organisations should be aware of making assumptions about the consumerisation of IT, according to IDC, as recent research shows that some commonly held views do not reflect the preferences, perceptions and usage of technology by enterprise employees in Australia and New Zealand. "The consumerisation of IT story is not yet grounded in hard and fast data on the vast majority of enterprise employee preferences, usage and expectations around IT in ANZ," said IDC senior analyst, Trevor Clarke. "However, the sustained and vocal consumerisation narrative currently reverberating around the industry and the solutions being proffered for addressing it will effectively become the target state for many organisations unless they proactively formulate a long-term workspace strategy that addresses the desires of the employee majority balanced with key or vocal influencers' views and organisational goals." In its recent report, The A/NZ enterprise employee survey: Testing the top 7 assumptions about the consumerisation of IT, IDC deconstructs seven of the key assumptions about the consumerisation of IT. The assumptions tested as part of the survey included: employee preferences for consumer devices and applications ... (Read Full Article)
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Unwiring the Enterprise: Are You Ready to Lose Control?
Armed with powerful mobile devices, consumers and employees have become the force behind a wireless wave of change. Whether they are seeking discounted prices or looking to coordinate a sales campaign, these mobile end-users are growing impatient with companies that are still trying to control behavior and the sharing of information.
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Consulting Self-Service from SAP
SAP Consulting Self-Service is a quick and easy way for customers to select and book an SAP consultant who has the skills and knowledge they require.
Customers can search on a whole range of attributes, including project duration, industry, solution area, consultant role, region and consultant proficiency, progressively narrowing their search down until they find consultants who match their criteria.
Consulting Self-Service then allows them to view detailed profiles of qualifications and experience, compare one consultant against another and, most importantly, view their availability.
Once the customer selects the right consultant for his needs, he enters some information about the work he wishes the consultant to perform. The consultant calls back the customer to verify the required work and agree on the scope and effort. Once agreement is reached the consultant perform the work and enters back to the system engagement summary for the benefit of the customer. Now it’s the time for the customer to accept the deliverables and provide feedback.
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The "Big Five" IT trends of the next half decade: Mobile, social, cloud, consumerization, and big data
In today’s ever more technology-centric world, the stodgy IT department isn’t considered the home of innovation and business leadership. Yet that might have to change as some of the biggest advances in the history of technology make their way into the front lines of service delivery. Here’s an exploration of the top five IT trends in the next half decade, including some of the latest industry data, and what the major opportunities and challenges are. (Read Full Article)
Gijima in sweet Apple deal
Gijima is set to become the first enterprise partner for Apple in Africa, in a deal that is expected to be announced within the next week.
In terms of the agreement, Gijima becomes the only partner for Apple in delivering solutions in the enterprise space. As things stand, Apple’s platforms are mainly engaged by the consumer sector on the continent.
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Wang assesses SAP’s current strategy
In a recent interview with ISAP, Ray Wang, principal analyst and CEO at Constellation Research Group and author of the popular enterprise software blog A software insiders point of view, discussed the current status and short-term future for SAP. Wang believes SAP is better positioned to compete in the new market than it was 12 months ago, due to its performance “innovating on the edges”, especially in the five key areas defining “the consumerisation of IT” – social, mobile, cloud, analytics and unified communications. (Read Full Article)
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How RIAs are Impacting the SAP User Experience
If you’ve noticed that SAP applications are getting easier to use, you can trace the origins of that evolution to the subject of this month’s Jargon Buster: rich Internet applications (RIAs).
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The future of Enterprise security
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The increase in workforce mobility, the adoption of virtualisation and cloud computing and the growing acceptance of "Bring Your Own Device" in the enterprise are all forces contributing to the erosion of the established enterprise security model.
As the smartphone and tablet, running iOS, Android and possibly soon Windows Phone7, become tools of choice for the mobile corporate employee; data and systems are increasingly mobile, less centrally managed and traditional security architecture becomes more fragmented.
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