Jun 03, 2009 Interview with Web Developer Allison Gianotto on Rackspace Cloud's Mosso Blog
Deb Cameron, managing editor of Evolved Media, and the author of O'Reilly's "Learning GNU Emacs," interviewed longtime Web developer Allison Gianotto about the benefits of moving all her sites onto Cloud Sites.
One particular item of interest in the interview is where Allison explains why she chose to go with Cloud Sites as opposed to Cloud Servers.
To read the interview, go here.
Jun 02, 2009 Google is Getting the Enterprise
In this week's JargonSpy post, Dan Woods explores how Google's recent partnerships help "provide real support for Enterprise computing."
The Google partnerships Woods examines are with Cast Iron Systems, Cordys, and Salesforce.com.
To read the article, go here.
May 28, 2009 How is Performance Management Like a GPS?
How does the GPS metaphor help explain what it means to be Driven to Perform? Read an excerpt from the book, published on BardoliBlog.
May 27, 2009 Hit Your Business with a Two-by-Four
No, it's not the latest in employee abuse. Rather, it is a succinct distillation of the methodology of risk-aware performance management presented in Driven to Perform. Read more about how you can effectively hit your business with a two-by-four on Forbes.com.
May 20, 2009 Bardoli Blog Highlights 'Driven to Perform' Podcast
Nenshad Bardoliwalla, CTO for EPM & GRC at SAP and one of the authors of Driven to Perform, which has just been published by Evolved Technologist Press, has just posted a blog entry that highlights Stephanie Buscemi's podcast from SAPPHIRE 2009 about the book. More »
May 19, 2009 JargonSpy Talks About 'Simulating Success'
This week the JargonSpy examines how "high-fidelity user-interface simulations reduce risk and improve the quality of software development."
The column describes how the modern development paradigm has "shifted from the waterfall model, in which the creators of software pretend they know what is needed up front, to agile development, in which software designers admit they don't know what is needed and then gather as much information as fast as possible." More »
May 12, 2009 Managing Performance and Risk in a Down Economy: A Practical Approach to Optimizing Business Performance for Everyone
In this live webcast, now available on demand, Bill Thomas, partner at Deloitte, speaks at length with Driven to Perform authors Nenshad Bardolliwalla, Stephanie Buscemi, and Denise Broady.
Nenshad highlights the three hypotheses that drove the authors to write this book: More »
May 12, 2009 Outsourcing Results
In his May 12 JargonSpy column, Dan Woods highlights companies that are shifting the outsourcing paradigm in the direction of business network transformation. More »
May 06, 2009 'Driven to Perform' Is Announced on Two Blogs
Nenshad Bardoliwalla, CTO for EPM and Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) at SAP, and one of the coauthors of Driven to Perform: Risk-Aware Performance Management From Strategy Through Execution, has just written two prominent posts announcing the release of the book.
The first post is on the SAP Community Network.
The second post is on Nenshad's personal blog.
May 05, 2009 Complex Event Processing Website References JargonSpy
The Complex Event Processing (CEP) site has referenced the JargonSpy's April 7 column titled Merging Enterprise and Web 2.0.
CEP is an emerging technology for building and managing information systems. The website is "devoted to documenting applications and products that employ any form of CEP and
the latest research and developments in event processing."
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