Search
About CIC
Browse the CIC website
Creative Intellect Consulting's site is free to browse. You may explore the site and comment on our blog entries without any registration.
Free and paid research
Blog Tag Cloud
(ISC)2 Adobe Android Apple Apps Cloud Continuous Delivery Continuous Deployment Design developers DevOps Google Green Hat HP HTC IASA IBM IBM Rational iOS iPad latest research Micro Focus Microsoft Mobile Modernization Nokia Oracle PaaS partners Privacy Release Automation Release Management SaaS Security SmartCloud SME Software Development Software Quality Software Security Software Security Survey Software testing Tablet unit testing UX Windows 8
Author Archives: Ian Murphy
Adobe finds cloud has a gold plated lining
There has been quite a reaction to the announcement from Adobe that Creative Suite, as a boxed product, is effectively dead. There are many good reasons for Adobe to take this step although there are also some issues that it … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Licensing
Tagged Adobe, Creative Cloud, Creative Suite, Microsoft
Leave a comment
Orchestrated IT – a symphony or white noise?
Orchestration from an IT perspective is not a new topic but with the drive towards a DevOps focused world, it has become a hot topic. Wikipedia describes orchestration (computing) as ”the automated arrangement, coordination, and management of complex computer systems, middleware, … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Delivery and Lifecycle Management
Tagged DevOps, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Orchestration, processes, Serena, Wikipedia
Leave a comment
How IBM plans to extract value from the channel
The success of the Apple App Store has spawned a whole new way of doing business for many vendors. Vendors are now looking at their solutions and trying to see how they can build a platform on which partners will … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Consulting
Tagged Analyst Insight, App Store, Apple, HP, iOS, Microsoft, OSX, PaaS, partners, PAYG, Platform as a Service, SaaS, SmartCloud, SME, Software as a Service, Windows 8, WindowsRT
Leave a comment
Can Analytics unlock the SME for IBM
Analytics is a theme that cannot have escaped anyone in IT over the last few years. As a mainframe and enterprise vendor, it would be easy to think that IBM already had all the tools it needed in this space … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Consulting
Tagged Analytic Answers, BIaaS, CIO, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Oxford University, QlikView, Salesforce, SAP, SmartCloud, SME, Sun, Teradata, Windows Azure
Leave a comment
Platform owners need to set a high bar for privacy
As we move into 2012 we can be assured that there will be numerous stories of rogue applications sitting on social media sites stealing users data. Despite the spectacle that every breach causes, platform owners seem to have little interest … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Policy and regulation, Security
Tagged Argos, cookies, EU, Facebook, HMRC, personal data, platform owners, Privacy
Leave a comment
Nokia’s new beginnings or the beginning of the end?
It’s easy to look at Nokia over the last 18 months and forget that they were once the primary driver for so much phone and mobile software development for over two decades. In some countries of the world, low end … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis
Tagged Android, HTC, Microsoft, Mobile, Nokia, Samsung, smartphone, Symbian
Leave a comment
Sony shifts it weight with Sony Ericsson, but can it regain its edge?
On 27 October 2011, Sony finally bought out the 50% of its joint venture with Ericsson, giving it sole control over the phone business. This is a move that not only makes sense for Sony but one that could finally put … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Software Development
Tagged Apple, customers, developers, market strategy, Microsoft, Mobile, mobile gaming, Nokia, Sony, Sony Ericsson
Leave a comment
Smart Cloud connections: Partner strategies to nurture
Without partners, Independent Software Vendors, Service Providers, System Integrators and other Consultancies would struggle to compete in a global market and also would probably face massive increases in their direct sales forces. Today, the Cloud is changing these partner models.
Posted in Analysis, Delivery and Lifecycle Management, Licensing
Tagged CapGemini, Channel, Cloud, ISV, Logica, PaaS, Resellers, SaaS, Service Lifecycle Management, Service Providers, Services, SI, System Integrators, Vendor
Leave a comment
Autodesk fine tunes its Cloud service to enhance customer experience
Many of the Cloud models that software vendors are using today are simply a reworking of their existing software solutions onto a hosted platform. While this might extend your customer base if you use it to lower cost, simply hosting … Continue reading
Blog piece: Microsoft finds a rabbit in its hat with Windows 8 launch
It would be fair to say that the last few years have not been good to Microsoft. Most product launches have suffered from a lukewarm to cool reception and it has suffered badly at the hands of Google and Apple. … Continue reading
