At JDA’s user conference last year CEO Hamish Brewer outlined a long-term transformational strategy that included an increasing number of JDA solutions moving to the cloud. While JDA will …
At VMworld, we spoke with our partner BMC Software (@BMCSoftware), who recognized us as a cloud innovator in terms of the value JDA Cloud Services bring to our customers. We were honored to receive a BMC Cloud Innovation Award and to have our own John Frazier speak with BMC’s CTO Kia Behnia.
I recently wrote about how the shift to cloud computing moves the burden of installing, operating, or maintaining software from you to your vendor, and how the four phases of the software lifecycle shift as well. In this final part, I’ll cover optimization and continual improvement.
Cloud strategies can vary dramatically based on industry, size, and business philosophy, as well as many other factors. However, successful strategies have several things in common: they include an assessment of your solutions and an analysis of your requirements.
From my experience, the best CIOs seize the opportunity of the cloud by taking control of it. This starts with a shift in the CIO’s role from gatekeeper to strategic business advisor.
Acquisition of cloud technology solutions and existing solutions providers is not necessarily an ill-advised strategy. Leveraged properly with organic growth, internal development, and most importantly, external customer input can create powerful, innovative, problem-solving solutions for new and existing customers alike.
Unlike the days of the past where cloud computing was once perceived as a cost-effective, flexible option for small to mid-sized companies, in 2012 cloud computing will dig even deeper into the enterprise as more executives embrace and move to a cloud managed services model.
