IFS World 2019 - Roos makes challenger pitch as Astea buy extends FSM reach This article is sponsored by:
At its annual IFS World Conference in Boston, IFS positions itself on the side of challenger companies as it announces an FSM acquisition
Cloud platforms - infrastructure and architecture
Durham University takes a parallel approach to universal applications access This article is sponsored by:
Durham University wanted to provide a truly mobile IT campus experience – independent of users’ device choice – and ensure that experience would be user-centric and follow them anywhere.
Is AI an agent of big tech hegemony or multi-disciplinary research and innovation? This article is sponsored by:
A recent New York Times article focused on fears of a big tech monopoly over AI technology and research. Severe debunkery ensues...
Snowflake CEO insists his company can take the heat This article is sponsored by:
At the company’s Summit event in London this week, Snowflake’s Frank Slootman discussed what it takes to compete against, while relying on, the giants of public cloud
BoxWorks 19 - Connecting teams, content - and now apps This article is sponsored by:
Connecting applications come to the fore at BoxWorks 19 as content collaboration vendor Box unveils deeper integration partnerships
Sainsbury's and Google - unexpected cloud platform in bagging area This article is sponsored by:
Sainsbury's wants to understand better what it is that customers want to eat and puts GCP on the menu.
Tibco sets out how to unify the way to AI/Cloud/Edge flexibility This article is sponsored by:
If the buzzwords de jure are 'fail fast’ and 'fail often’ and if failure is now (as NASA has for years insisted) just a qualified success, users are going to need to work in an environment where the 'suck it and see’ approach is easily engineered. And that is what Tibco is setting out to provide.
Oracle resurgent 3 - a 'to do' list for the next phase of the ERP wars This article is sponsored by:
In the final part of this post-OpenWorld Oracle assessment, a to-do list for Larry Ellison and team to win more ground in the ERP wars.
Alibaba joins the push to provide AI-ready infrastructures This article is sponsored by:
Putting AI to serious work will require new hardware and new systems software. Alibaba looks very keen to take as much lead as possible in the shape and scope of the coming changes.
Oracle resurgent 2 - the ERP competitive landscape This article is sponsored by:
A blow-by-blow competitive assessment of Oracle v the rest of the ERP world in the wake of last week's OpenWorld conference.
DataOps challenge - the complicated art of making things simple This article is sponsored by:
Variations on Dolly Parton - making things simple is pretty complicated.
Huawei Connect - showing off the building blocks to make AI a working reality This article is sponsored by:
It is one thing to have grand ideas of how things might be done, but it needs building blocks to make it happen. Huawei has some available and more to come.
FutureStack 19 - New Relic boosts observability in quest for perfect software This article is sponsored by:
New Relic rounds out its observability platform at FutureStack 19 with logging, AIOps and other functions to offer more comprehensive integration and insight
