Continuing in the analyst program at IBM World of Watson we got an update on the evolution of IBM’s Cloud Platform from Bill Karpovich. Cloud, he says, is strategic. Vendors must disrupt with cloud or be disrupted by it. Over the last few years, cloud has evolved from efficient public cloud infrastructure to new applications [...]
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I have blogged about IBM ODM (Operational Decision Management – their Business Rules Management System) many times before (most recently about ODM Advanced here). IBM has a new cloud offering – IBM ODM on Cloud – that was announced in early October. IBM ODM has offered various deployment options for a while – on premise, [...]
Les Rechan and Niel Isford came up to wrap up the first day to talk about IBM’s focus on Client Experience. The products, as was noted earlier, are focusing on being Easy, Simple and Fast to make them easier to consume. From a licensing perspective IBM is working with clients on an IBM Unlimited License [...]
Last session for me at FICO World is SulAmerica (part of ING) talking about their work with FICO moving decision management applications to the cloud. Cloud is clearly a growth area for businesses, with much of companies’ IT investment being pushed to the cloud. This move to the cloud turns applications to SaaS, middleware into [...]
Keith Collins was up next to talk about Cloud. This is an area where I have done some research before – check out the results from our Predictive Analytics in the Cloud research. Keith presented the NIST definition of cloud with its 5 characteristics – one demand, broad network access, measured service (subscription), resource pooling [...]
Intalio hosted a launch today to position themselves as The Enterprise Cloud Company. Intalio turns 10 years old this year. They remain a privately held company with 500 paying customers and have passed 50,000 deployed sites in 52 countries. 35 employees and 20 contractors across 14 offices worldwide. Customers cover all industries and business is [...]
Mike Gilpin and Noel Yuhanna gave a presentation on how informaton-as-a-service can help your projects and applications. Many SOA implementations were focused on transactional solutions but Forrester found that many used the same service infrastructure to expose information – e.g. a customer update service which exposes the current address also. Theme: Information-as-a-service (IaaS) offers to [...]