A couple of years ago, I was visiting one of my customers, who was a large semiconductor manufacturer based in the Bay Area. I met with their IT team to give them an update of our product roadmap. As a part of that exchange, I asked them to share their architecture so that I could understand the level of maturity [...]

Double-degreed, techno-savvy, mobile-phone-dependent young professionals now entering the workforce will expect a totally different experience from what your business apps deliver today. At a recent event, Gartner analyst, Val Sribar broke it all down, explaining that next-generation business apps will have to look and act like consumer applications. That’s right. That means your apps will need to meet a whole new set [...]

This is a true incident which happened a few months ago at an upcoming Bay Area-based wireless device manufacturer. I was there to meet with their IT director to discuss their enterprise integration strategy. They had recently acquired a SaaS CRM to replace their on-premise CRM application. They seemed happy and content about their decision. The IT director could not [...]

This is every IT manager’s worst nightmare. You walk into the office. Everyone in your department looks gloomy. The mood in the air is a bit unsettling. As you work through the various worst case scenarios in your head, you open up your email inbox. And right there, at the top, is an email from the CIO titled “Adopt cloud [...]