It’s hard to believe, but it’s almost been 13 years since Nicholas G. Carr wrote his famous essay, “IT Doesn’t Matter.” In that column Carr argued that IT had become so pervasive in enterprises and so widely used that it had essentially become a commodity and was no longer useful as a tool for business […]
Mobile-Disruptor Simgo Launches World’s First eSIM
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Mobile-disruptor startup, Simgo® today announced the availability of an SDK for it’s award winning virtual eSIM cloud-platform (vSIM™) for cellular devices. Simgo’s v-SIM SDK, simgoinside™ is the world’s first fully functioning e-SIM for smartphones, tablets, wearables, connected cars and the exponentially expanding universe of IoT. The simgoinside™ SDK is […]
IT DevOps: One Size Does Not Fit All
As absurd as this may seem, some in IT may be longing for the good old days of the mainframe. After all, the hulking machine, with its dumb terminals and thousands of punch cards, gave IT complete control. No citizen developers or business analysts allowed. Things got more complicated with distributed desktop computing and its […]
Make ‘Mobile First’ an Innovation Strategy
The call for organizations to be “mobile first” in application development has been so heavily embraced by enterprises that today mobile first has become table stakes. Being mobile first is no longer cutting edge but merely keeping pace with the enterprise pack. And a big pack it has become: According to ABI Research, revenues generated […]
Five often expressed obstacles to enterprise IT innovation
Business leaders know, for their business to succeed in the years ahead, that their IT and developer teams need to innovate. But surveys show that too often the IT teams may not be able to deliver the innovative value that the business seeks. Have a look out our recent Q&A, The IT mandate: Be a […]
Mobile developer trends for CI and the cloud
Mobile developers understand the rising importance of continuous integration (CI). The promise of CI is to speed up the overall velocity of the app team by building and testing every single code change. This environment of rapid change means that code integration issues are caught early, and testers and beta users can provide feedback on […]
DevOps Chat: Rosalind Radcliffe, Mobile to Mainframe DevOps for Dummies
I recently had a chance to sit down with IBM Distinguished Engineer Rosalind Radcliffe about her new book, Mobile to Mainframe DevOps for Dummies. The book is actually quite a bit deeper than your usual “for Dummies” book and an excellent read. Of course you would expect as much coming from Rosalind who has quite […]
Part 2: Meeting relentless mobile app demand
As we discussed in Meeting the Relentless Mobile App Demand of the Enterprise, the enterprise thirst for mobile apps will far outstretch what enterprise internal development teams will be in a position to produce. Developers will need every edge provided to them in order to help their enterprise success. And there’s no doubt that IT […]
Meeting the Relentless Mobile App Demand of the Enterprise
Talk to any CIO today and one of the most pressing challenges they face is building mobile apps that enterprises want to use as fast as they need them. Most enterprises today have huge mobile app backlogs with no sign of it getting any better. According to Gartner, the demand for enterprise mobile apps will […]
The Wonder Pill for Mobile Application Success
Dr. James Brown stunned the British Science Festival by announcing a wonder pill that could reduce your weight, lower the risk of high blood pressure, cancer, diabetes, depression, and anxiety. With everyone in attendance eagerly awaiting what it was, he plainly exclaimed that the “wonder pill” was daily exercise. The most effective solution was the […]