Tag Archives: IBM

UX is not just about UI

Posted on May 7, 2013 by CIC Analysts

We’ve just published a new Practitioner Insight report that discusses the importance of User eXperience (UX) as the critical success factor in implementing any Enterprise Mobility strategy. Whilst UX is well established in the Business-to-Consumer (B2C) domain, it is less … Continue reading →

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Orchestrated IT – a symphony or white noise?

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Ian Murphy

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 →

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Hat check: Green Hat and IBM 15 months on

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Paul Herzlich

IBM’s play in Service Virtualization (SV) for testing In January 2012, I mused over the implications of IBM’s acquisition of Green Hat, vendor of a product that simulated external interfaces for software testing. Fifteen months later, I’ve had another look … Continue reading →

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IBM and mobile: time to take the plunge

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Jessica Figueras

For many years IBM has been a paddler, not a player, in mobile. Although it has had a respectable presence in the telco market, for the most part this comprises backoffice infrastructure and services not directly related to mobile applications. … Continue reading →

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Lawmakers moving secure software up the agenda

Posted on February 27, 2013 by CIC Analysts

The Lawmakers move securing software up the agenda: HTC a high profile casualty With Mobile World Congress 2013 taking place in Barcelona this week and all the fanfare over new product launches and technology, it may have escaped many people’s … Continue reading →

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Can Analytics unlock the SME for IBM

Posted on December 29, 2012 by Ian Murphy

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 →

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IBM Software Analysts Insight: Will a clear vision and strategy lead to a sure-footed, agile execution?

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Paul Herzlich

The abiding impression from the IBM Software Analysts Insight conference in Stamford, Connecticut was of a company absolutely clear on its strategy and sure-footed in its execution. For nearly a decade (since 2004), IBM has been attempting to reduce the … Continue reading →

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Tackling a storm of integration and testing complexity – IBM acquires Green Hat

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Paul Herzlich

Yesterday IBM announced its intention to acquire software test tool vendor Green Hat. You might be forgiven for wondering why IBM needs Green Hat’s portfolio when it already has its own suite of Jazz-based Rational test tools that cover test … Continue reading →

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Cloud computing – time to start being specific

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Ian Murphy

Everywhere you look, the phrase of the last few years has been Cloud computing. When the term first started to be used it was meant to describe a change to the way we would do computing.  In many ways it … Continue reading →

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Making a mark in software and computing history with a social celebration

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Bola Rotibi

It’s sometimes fun to reflect how things change over time. I look at my smart phone next to my laptop and think of all the things that I am able to do with it today and marvel at the evolution, … Continue reading →

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