App dev & programme management

The merger of Misys and Temenos

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:48:01 GMT

Less than a week ago, initial information became public that Misys and Temenos may intend to merge. On February 7, 2012, a press release stated that "Temenos and Misys today confirm that they have reached agreement in principle on certain...

Open web technologies you need to know

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:19:18 GMT

The open web is a culture, a community — and a set of preferred technologies for Internet applications. While HTML5 is the best known of these technologies, the open web also includes JavaScript, CSS3, Representational State Transfer (REST) application programming...

Here comes the open web - embrace it, Part 2

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:39:19 GMT

The Web is moving on to a new era of openness, mobility, and digital business. The open Web is a platform built on HTTP (the fundamental web protocol), a new generation of HTML, dynamic languages, and wide use of Internet...

Here comes the open web - embrace It

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:31:51 GMT

One of the things I enjoy the most about being an industry analyst is that I've spent the past six years meeting some great developers. Personally, I’m not sure I could cover any other technology area then application development. The...

Embracing the open web

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:03:49 GMT

The open web is a culture, a community — and a set of preferred technologies for Internet applications. While HTML5 is the best known of these technologies, the open web also includes JavaScript (client and server), CSS3, Representational State Transfer...

You think changing to increase business agility is hard?

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:19:21 GMT

Think of a medieval fortress: It was originally used for a small army, it has walls nine meters thick, and it’s surrounded by buildings hundreds of years old. Upon entering, you are confronted with the concept of eternity. This fortress...

Agile development and robots: are you smarter than a 10th grader?

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:53:13 GMT

One of the counter intuitive things that we observed early on in the days of object oriented programming was that developers with no previous programming experience often picked up concepts like inheritance, encapsulation and polymorphism much more quickly than seasoned...

Software requirements are where we define value

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:35:45 GMT

Revolutions take two forms. The most familiar kind is the noisy, conspicuous, disjunctive event that marks a clean break from the past. Yesterday, George III was our monarch. Today, he's not. The other kind of revolution is a more gradual...

Software is not code; it creates experiences

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:26:29 GMT

Ultimately, customers don't judge you based on how well you gather business requirements, choose development technologies, manage projects, or march through the development process -- they judge you based on how they feel before, during, and after they use...

Honest: Accounting packages really can deliver business advantage

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:04:08 GMT

Do you ever wonder which IT investments really drive competitiveness or comparative advantage for your firm and which are there simply to support mundane processes that are identical to those of all your competitors? Do you ever wonder if it...

Three things I'd tell your CIO

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:54:17 GMT

Back in August of this year, Marc Andreessen published an essay in the WSJ highlighting his thoughts on why software's eating the world. I encourage you to read it. It highlights something we firmly believe. We’ve entered the age of...

SAP acquisition of SuccessFactors re-engergises its HCM and SaaS strategy

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:00:02 GMT

SAP is a paying a substantial premium to acquire SuccessFactors, a leading SaaS performance and talent management vendor. The press release of December 3, 2011 states that the deal price of $40 per share is a 52% premium over the...

Platform as a Service cloud development is poised for breakout

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:52:54 GMT

My colleague John Rymer expects platform-as-a-service (PaaS) technology to “cross the chasm” into mainstream status over the next three years (2012-2014). Today, PaaS solutions, which provide application development and deployment tools abstracted from the underlying cloud infrastructure on which they...

The new productivity platforms: Your solution to the AD&D crunch

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:30:12 GMT

For fast delivery of new business applications, conventional Java and .NET coding is usually no longer your best choice. Instead, a generation of new productivity platforms holds the potential to speed initial application delivery and ongoing updates. These platforms abstract...

Demand for MFT driven by enterprise compliance requirements

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:58:11 GMT

Over the past couple of years, we have noticed a significant uptick in inquiries from clients on the subject of MFT (managed file transfer) to support external data exchanges. In fact, one survey listed MFT as the primary area of...

Need faster App delivery? Consider a CIS approach

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:39:13 GMT

Comprehensive integration solutions (CISes) have been in the market for several years and provide robust features for solving application, B2B, and process integration challenges. But what a lot of people don't yet understand is that these tools can also dramatically...

You need to act more like an interactive agency

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:16:58 GMT

Since our successful AD&D and BP Forums in Boston I’m still struck by conversations we held there and continue to hold now with many of you on how your teams can help deliver to your firm’s ever-important customer experience...

Don't think BPM and customer experience are your problem?

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:23:15 GMT

Development leaders! Project leaders and business analysts! Application & solution architects! Want to move forward on your Business Technology journey and be viewed by your business stakeholders as a valuable team member? Take a tip from last week's Forums held...

Customer-driven business transformation

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:12:39 GMT

Dan Simpson understands business transformation, and the critical role the customer plays in it. Before joining Trustmark, Dan led the Enterprise Technology Group at Physicians Mutual, where he was the driving force behind the company’s business transformation strategy and the...

The age of the customer will force app delivery organisations to change

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:28:52 GMT

At a recent roundtable discussion with Forrester’s leading application development & delivery (ADD) and customer experience analysts, my colleagues and I explored the topic of how application delivery must change to address the age of the customer. Today’s customers have...

CSC Acquires AppLabs: What can we expect?

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:33:00 GMT

CSC announced today that it is acquiring AppLabs, an IV&V testing vendor. At first glance, it's a win, maybe a win for both sides. CSC states that one of the reasons that it acquired AppLabs is to augment its horizontal application strategy, due...

The relationship between DevOps and continuous delivery

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:09:50 GMT

If you've been reading the research I've been writing over the past year, you know that I'm a fan of implementing an application lifecycle management strategy that focuses on increasing development flow and supports high performance teams. You don't need...

What will your app portfolio look like in 2020?

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:32:38 GMT

In Champions Of Change: The App Dev & Delivery Role In 2020, we began to think about the business climate in the year 2020 and how it affects the application development and delivery role. Building on that theme, turn your attention...

End this madness: ban -as-a-service

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:05:18 GMT

Guilty! You will find SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS terms in my past research documents and blog posts. But I have decided to stop using the *-as-a-service moniker because it is a redundant pleonasm like horseless carriage, wireless phone and absolutely...

Together we stand: Agile, Lean & DevOps against complexity

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:57:47 GMT

Complexity is the nemesis of application developers everywhere. While software products complexity may be, to a great extent, unavoidable, we don't have to complicate software development to match it.That's the conclusion driving many of the new approaches that app dev...