Entries Categorized as 'Cloud'
by Andrew White | June 27, 2011 | 5 Comments
Today Orchestra Networks announced the availability of their cloud-based MDM service offering, at http://smartdatagovernance.com/ The press suggested this was the worlds’ first cloud-based MDM offering. I don’t want to explore the specifics related to this one vendor, but since cloud computing is very highly hyped right now, we do get a number of inquiries from [...]
Category: Cloud MDM Open Source MDM Orchestra Networks SCM Talend Tags: Cloud-based MDM, MDM, Open Source Software MDM, Orchestra Networks, OSS MDM, Talend
by Andrew White | June 17, 2011 | 1 Comment
An article in last weekend’s FT highlights the apparent clash between the personal computer and cloud computing. The article, entitled “Cloud threatens to end PC’s reign”, suggests that though PC’s current domination is safe, it is losing its influence in terms of how IT is evolving. In my travels I have spoken to many organizations [...]
Category: Cloud Peer to Peer (P2P) Tags: Cloud, P2P, Peer to Peer
by Andrew White | June 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
The Woe of IT – The Dark Side of (Cloud) Outsourcing I had a great day today with end users. In fact days like this make it great fun to be an analyst. The bad news is you get to learn a lot of stuff in a very short period of time; and such data [...]
Category: Cloud ERP Outsourcing Tags: Cloud, Cloud, Outsourcing
by Andrew White | March 11, 2010 | Comments Off
During the Wipro analyst day 2010 I heard updates on the corporate strategy and go-to-market. The key take-away is that Wipro strategically is aligning with the idea that the key to competitive advantage (for the end user organization) lays not within a single organization, but from collaboration between networks of organizations. As Kirk Strawser, Managing [...]
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by Andrew White | September 4, 2009 | Comments Off
Well that was a fun week. I just had a week without travel (always a pleasure) where I spend most of the time on the telephone with users, or doing research. And this week was important because we are wrapping up our preparations for our up coming Gartner MDM Summit, 2009, in Los Angeles, October [...]
Category: Business to Business (B2B) Cloud MDM MDM Summit MDM of Product Data Multidomain MDM Multienterprise Operational MDM Procurement MDM Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Regulation/Compliance SCM SaaS Tags: B2B, Cloud, MDM, MDM of Product Data, PLM, SaaS
by Andrew White | January 6, 2009 | 1 Comment
I took a fascinating briefing today from a vendor that has announced a SaaS-based Order Management offering. I took the briefing in order to discover how the vendor had solved the problem of integrating the use of master data across the enterprise firewall; this has to be an issue for any user of SaaS-based business [...]
Category: Business to Business (B2B) Cloud MDM SaaS Tags: B2B, Cloud, SaaS
by Andrew White | December 15, 2008 | Comments Off
Toby Bell, a colleague of mine at Gartner, just published a note called, Get Ready for Content in the Cloud. The note focuses on the rapid growth likely to be seen in content and services in SaaS deployment models, which exist outside of the firewall and hence in the “cloud”. When the word “content” is [...]
Category: Cloud Data Integration/Synchronization SaaS Tags: Cloud, SaaS
