IT Workforce

Related CV Employees Nutriate blog post Return of on-the-job training (in factories) – article in the 2012 September 17 print edition of the Christian Science Monitor Coursera IT Professions The September 2012 experience of NFL games referred by replacements while the experienced professionals were locked out by the NFL owners (over a contract dispute) is…

Cloud Plays Big Role in SMB

Cloud Computing Plays Big Role in Small, Mid-Sized Businesses – Messaging and Collaboration. – 2012 Aug 13 This survey would be a lot more interesting if it looked at SMEs’ adoption of SaaS products and SaaS-enabled BPO for a large portion of their non-differentiating business processes.  (File sharing and email are tools rather than business…

SOA on a Cloudy Day

Long live SOA in the cloud era | Application development – InfoWorld. Andrew Oliver makes good points about the dependency of SOA strategy success on executive management support, the preference of IT departments for technology rather than strategy solutions, and the lack of cloud integration standards; but these do not logically support his argument for…

Business Performance

Cloud Business Performance Cloud Producers 2012 June PEG: Refer to: 2011_SaaS_Benchmarking_Report.pdf (application/pdf Object), a useful business performance benchmarks for publicly traded SaaS Producers.  However, there is no differentiation between SaaS Producers (on the basis of dominant operating monetization strategy and the consequent primary value proposition and/or investor expectations with regards to risk/reward and profit margins). …