Jack Santos

That’s what happens when you get old – that is, anything beyond adolescent.  You suddenly wake up one day and find that the rest of the world has passed you by, and you have become irrelevant. Sometimes it’s just because you have grown too fat – who hasn’t heard of the obesity problem. And it’s [...]

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Category: Catalyst 12 Windows 8     Tags: Catalyst-NA, Mergers, mobility, vendor

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The conversations I have been having with IT executives have spiked in one important area: outsourcing and vendor management.  Certainly, cloud (as a form of outsourcing) is contributing to that.  But it is also becoming apparent that we are seeing a tidal wave in the making. That tidal wave involves the role of IT, and [...]

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Category: career CIO issues Externalization governance IT Governance management Managment Offshore Outsourcing Strategic Planning Vendor Contracts     Tags: career, CIO, Externalization, IT relevance, management, Mergers, Outsourcing, Strategy

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Today’s Wall Street Journal had an article about he intense scrutiny Comcast is under for its purchase of NBC. An excerpt for Comcast’s filing stated: “Comcast, on the other hand, argues that Internet video won’t be a direct competitor to cable any time soon, removing any incentive for it to cut off online competitors’ access [...]

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Category: Applications Cloud Fun Predictions     Tags: culture, Mergers, network, Predictions, Wireless

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News from the healthcare front: Eclipsys and Allscripts merge. This type of convergence has taken longer than I thought it would (doesn’t everything in healthcare IT?).  As I remember from a selection process a few years ago the market for ambulatory EMRs (from an infrastructure perspective) included Microsoft -focused dot-net architectures (Eclipsys was a prime [...]

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Category: Healthcare     Tags: consumerization, EMR, Healthcare, Mergers, UI

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