Kenny MacIver - author at diginomica

Kenny MacIver has been the editor-in-chief of highly influential and successful business technology magazines and digital media platforms, spanning global, US and UK-focused titles, including I: Global Intelligence for the CIO, Information Age, Computer Business Review and Global Technology Business. A former correspondent for The Times in Silicon Valley, Kenny previously built expertise as a software analyst at IDC and a developer at PwC.

Articles by Kenny MacIver

Open Box: why the cloud collaboration pioneer thinks it’s time to be a platform company This article is sponsored by:

The opening up of Box will enable customers and development partners to embed the tool’s key capabilities in their own applications, says CEO Aaron Levie.

RichRelevance crafts recipe for ingesting big data This article is sponsored by:

Recommendations engine service provider to the giants of omnichannel retail turns to Pentaho’s Hadoop-friendly ETL tool to streamline client data on-boarding.

Amazon/PayPal checkout widget wars reach Europe This article is sponsored by:

Amazon widens global assault on PayPal with launch of Login and Pay service in UK/Germany — early adopter AllSaints reports big leap in checkout conversions.

The perils of taking cloud into regulated sectors: a CIO’s tale This article is sponsored by:

Ian Cohen, CIO of global insurance group JLT, explores why highly regulated industries still face major barriers to cloud adoption — and calls on suppliers to play a greater role in demolishing those.

MarkLogic: Battling for pole position in the NoSQL market This article is sponsored by:

MarkLogic CEO Gary Bloom talks to Diginomica about size, enterprise-level table stakes and the lead generation engine provided by his open source database rivals.

How G-Cloud became a poster child for the UK government’s SME engagement policy This article is sponsored by:

Small and mid-sized businesses now bank almost 60% of the spend that UK central government departments put through G-Cloud, as short, fixed-term contracts, pricing transparency and open procurement have “levelled the playing field.”

The cloud collaboration behind a 50m user smart meter roll-out This article is sponsored by:

How the UK’s energy department is orchestrating the installation of smart meters nationwide with the help of Huddle.

TOMY: Crafting a mobile sales app for SAP that’s anything but a toy This article is sponsored by:

How the European operation of the world’s fourth largest toy company created a revenue-boosting mobile app for its field salesforce — for what others would regard as a project rounding error.

Betfair shares the ‘secret sauce’ of hybrid cloud This article is sponsored by:

The international gaming giant says an intense focus on automation and orchestration — undepinned by virtual hybrid cloud technology from VMware — has “finally” enabled the seamlessly sharing of workloads across private and public clouds.

Uncertain signals from the BI cloud This article is sponsored by:

Today cloud business intelligence accounts for a fraction of IT decision-maker spend on analytics: so how come new data shows 50% are mulling just such a move?

DataStax strengthens foundations for relational database assault This article is sponsored by:

NoSQL database start-up responds to accelerating growth by drafting in seasoned database industry execs.

Extending service management across the enterprise This article is sponsored by:

IT service management tools are not the sole preserve of IT, argues Red Hat CIO Lee Congdon. And since adopting ServiceNow, the open source software vendor has sown the cloud-based ITSM tool into the processes of HR, payroll, engineering, and more.

Overcoming resistance to BI in the cloud This article is sponsored by:

Cloud-based business intelligence provider Birst foresees a pick up in adoption as the fundamental barriers that have been a drag on the segment’s growth start to fall away.