Microsoft Enters the MDM market

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Well folks, it had to happen. Earlier this evening Microsoft announced it had entered the MDM market with the acquisition of Stratature, a private MDM company based in Georgia USA. Although Microsoft is late into this market I am sure this is the opening play from our friends in Redmond Washington. I assume Microsoft will […]

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Performance Management and Web 2.0. Collaboration

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Having spent some time recently making use of new releases of collaboration tools from IBM and Microsoft it is pretty obvious that project management capability jumped head first into these products for use in collaborative environments. In a sense it is no surprise to see this as it is clearly a natural thing to want […]

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Data Integration – Breaking Free of Line of Business Dominance

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Still today in this ‘modern’ world I wonder when common sense will prevail so that enterprises that demand real guidance from their BI investments will realise that one fundamental corporate barrier has to give way if true business benefit is to come from enterprise wide performance management. That barrier is the refusal of line of […]

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Vendor Acquisitions Fuel The Creation of the Performance Management Platform

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The movement in the Performance Management (PM) market of late seems to be heating up as mergers and acquisitions have seen some PM vendor consolidation as vendors start to beef up their PM product line. You can go back a few years to when all this started to happen with many vendors offering dashboards and […]

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Giants on The Move

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Occasionally living in the UK has its disadvantages when it comes to state side technology announcements that happen during our evening time. Already some of my fellow US based experts on the B-Eye-Network have blogged the Oracle announcement on their purchase of Hyperion. This is living up to my blog at the beginning of the […]

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