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Will EuroCloud provide some clarity and direction?
In recent weeks there has been plenty of activity around the Cloud Computing bridge with way too much emphasis on jargon and technicalities. The Intellect SaaS Group has started and is just about to...
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EuroCloud UK and a lesson in SaaS marketing
In the midst of a busy schedule the past couple of weeks I’ve been preparing for the launch meeting in London of EuroCloud UK, the British instance of the Europe-wide SaaS and cloud industry community...
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EuroCloud UK members making sense of Cloud standards and security
The newly formed EuroCloud UK group held their first member meeting a week ago at the Thistle City Barbican Hotel – a panel led group discussion on Cloud standards and security. Chaired by Phil...
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Polymaths see the bigger picture
One of my big themes these days is to look at the huge opportunities available to businesses that transform their operations, cost base or market reach through their use of the cloud. So I’m looking...
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Time to reveal cloud’s silver upside
Rolls Royce Silver Cloud - 1958 Too much of the discussion around cloud computing and SaaS is focussed on the technology and not enough emphasis is placed on the business results that can be achieved...
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Cloud computing (still) needs a bill of rights
Back in December, after Amazon summarily pulled the plug on WikiLeaks using its servers for alleged violations of terms and conditions, the CTO of Fujitsu Technology Solutions wrote that the action...
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Living with iPad
Just before Christmas I joined in with the iPad crowd. The last straw was an XBRL event at ICAEW back in November when 5 of my colleagues who were speaking or supporting Twinfield at the show all had...
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Ambivalence in Europe and the cloud
It strikes me that the UK’s attitude to Europe has a lot in common with many IT people’s feelings about cloud computing. Many Brits seem happiest about Europe when it’s at arms-length — useful for...
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Tech-hugging eurocrats imperil innovation puppy
by George’s Photos Can technology save Europe? Voters’ rejection of austerity in last week’s elections in France and Greece have spurred new efforts by European policymakers to find ways of...
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ERP, RIP? Cloud financials and revenue management in 2013
Image credit: SAP What’s the future for ERP in the cloud, if it has one at all? I heard a disarming admission last summer from the CEO of a company that aggressively markets itself as “the #1 cloud...
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Son of CRM: cloud sales, marketing and service in 2013
The name’s the same, but this is not the CRM your forefathers knew. Back in the client-server era, enterprise computing focused almost exclusively on automating internal systems. Today, all the...
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All together now: cloud collaboration, social and docs
Image credit: The Beatles Bible In the emerging enterprise application landscape, collaboration is the business activity most transformed by cloud. The revolution in outcomes is far greater than those...
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Cloud providers working with big data
Image credit: T. McCracken What does big data mean for cloud providers? This is the topic under discussion at a EuroCloud UK meeting next week. This blog post is both a reflection on the topic as well...
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Sourcing reinvented: cloud supply chain and spend management
If the future is a networked world, then we may well find that the future belongs to sourcing vendors. No other category of vendors has had its landscape transformed so fundamentally by the advent of...
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Polymaths see the bigger picture
One of my big themes these days is to look at the huge opportunities available to businesses that transform their operations, cost base or market reach through their use of the cloud. So I’m looking...
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Time to reveal cloud’s silver upside
Rolls Royce Silver Cloud - 1958 Too much of the discussion around cloud computing and SaaS is focussed on the technology and not enough emphasis is placed on the business results that can be achieved...
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Cloud computing (still) needs a bill of rights
Back in December, after Amazon summarily pulled the plug on WikiLeaks using its servers for alleged violations of terms and conditions, the CTO of Fujitsu Technology Solutions wrote that the action...
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ERP, RIP? Cloud financials and revenue management in 2013
Image credit: SAP What’s the future for ERP in the cloud, if it has one at all? I heard a disarming admission last summer from the CEO of a company that aggressively markets itself as “the #1 cloud...
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Son of CRM: cloud sales, marketing and service in 2013
The name’s the same, but this is not the CRM your forefathers knew. Back in the client-server era, enterprise computing focused almost exclusively on automating internal systems. Today, all the...
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All together now: cloud collaboration, social and docs
Image credit: The Beatles Bible In the emerging enterprise application landscape, collaboration is the business activity most transformed by cloud. The revolution in outcomes is far greater than those...
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