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EDS' Next Big Thing Blog: Read and Respond to What the EDS Fellows Say About Technology

Read and respond to what the EDS Fellows have to say about the future of technology on EDS' Next Big Thing Blog on eds.com.

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The software industry in conflict

I've written a number of times about the SaaS movement and what organizations need to think about when looking at its value to them.

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Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 5:27 PM by Charlie Bess | 0 Comments

Event Driven Management and Opportunistic Computing

A while back I wrote a blog entry on Opportunistic Computing, what an organization can do with cloud computing that they wouldn't have done before. I just read an entry on the Smart Enough Systems blog that looks at some similar issues but from the perspective of proactive use of IT to increase the value of the business. He wrote that the characteristics of an organization using Event Driven Management are:

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Posted Friday, April 18, 2008 12:47 PM by Charlie Bess | 0 Comments

SOA is a Business Process Architecture

The perceived war between BPM and SOA cited by Christopher Koch, "The New Technology Weapons of Choice in the Continuing War Between IT and the Business," is a competition between specialists. As suggested by Bruce Silver in "The Phony War between BPM and SOA," BPM people and SOA people are not concerned about different things, they are concerned about the same thing from different perspectives. The alignment of these perspectives is a critical opportunity for the business.

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Posted Friday, March 28, 2008 2:06 PM by Fred Cummins | 0 Comments

What’s time for anyway??

I remember hearing the story once of a mother who was taking her daughter to the zoo. They were rushing from place to place and the little girl was frustrated by the harried pace and her inability to enjoy the experience. She asked her mom "Why can't we look at everything?" The mother stated "We don't have time for that." The girl's response was "What's time for anyway???"

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Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 6:38 PM by Charlie Bess | 0 Comments

Virtual Presence and Green IT

For centuries the workers of the world have had to locate within commuting distance of their work. It was necessary because, their work could hardly travel to where they lived. Not anymore.  The paradigm of moving work to people rather than moving people to work is being adopted more and more by progressive companies who understand that there are benefits that devolve both to the enterprise as well as to employees.

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Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 5:49 PM by Charlie Bess | 2 Comments

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