Software as a service
Software as a service increased in popularity amid the most recent economic downturn. Why? Chief financial officers moved to turn capital expenses into more predictable operating outlays. Now pay as you go software is increasingly accepted in the enterprise. Key players includes: Salesforce.com, NetSuite, SuccessFactors, Workday and others.
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If big data and analytics apps are to achieve widespread success, then business users will have to pick up some of the high-level skills needed to get the best out of them.
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'Mainframes' and 'moonshots' are two words that were almost synonymous in the 1960s, as are 'iPhones' and 'apps' today.
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'It's no longer enough for EAs to put a shared infrastructure in place and stand back and declare the business to be enabled.'
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Q&A with Ernst & Young Americas CIO David Nichols: Everyone wants cloud, but no one has a clear strategy yet for managing it.
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For consumers, Ajax looks like magic. Developers know differently, of course.
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