Business Consultants: MIA in the Cloud
With the rise of cloud computing it will become more practical to execute any number of business processes. The problem is that most businesses today are not exactly sure what those business processes might be.
Data quality failures ‘lead to business problems’
A failure to meet data quality requirements can lead to difficulties for organisations further down the line, it has been asserted.
Writing for B-Eye Network, David Loshin, president of consultancy company Knowledge Integrity, said business problems can be "directly related" to poor data quality.
He stated the use of flawed information makes it more difficult to achieve critical business objectives.
But Mr Loshin added data quality improvements can help to tackle any problems in this area.
Datapipe Looks To Cloud With Amazon Web Services Management
Global managed service provider Datapipe this week is looking skyward with the launch of a new set of management servers around Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN)’s popular cloud computing infrastructure, Amazon Web Services.
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Europe’s top 25 cloud start-ups battle it out in VC beauty contest
Twenty five of Europe’s most innovative cloud computing companies will be pitching to an audience of elite venture capital firms and tech industry executives for the next two days at the European Tech Tour Association (ETT) Cloud and ICT 2.0 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The Summit aims to be a catalyst for the cloud computing industry in Europe, and aims to assist high-growth start-ups to expand globally by introducing them to potential investors and partners.
The 25 companies presenting were whittled down from an initial list of 234 rapidly growing cloud computing companies across Europe.
Effective data management ‘requires several strategies’
Companies looking to improve their data management standards in terms of business intelligence need to pursue several different strategies, it has been advised.
According to IT Business Edge blogger Loraine Lawson, organisations are gradually beginning to realise that they will not be able to make use of clean and integrated data without putting in some hard work first.
She said the messages that have been put across by data management experts appear to be getting through to businesses.
Sky’s the limit for TechnologyOne software rebuild
Announcing the complete re-engineering of the company’s software ‘from the ground up’, TechnologyOne chairman, Adrian Di Marco, said today the new cloud computing strategy would help its customers “migrate to realise major operating and capital expenditure savings.”
Forrester: Many cloud projects will fail, and this is good
Forty percent of companies are still to be convinced of the benefits of cloud and have no plans to adopt such a service. That’s according to a survey from Quest Software, which also found that the need to reduce costs was still the main driver for those companies that have adopted cloud services.
Cloud market triples in four years
While previously most cost saving debate about the cloud has focussed on the ability to cut capital expenditure by using a cloud service, Gartner vice president Nick Jones, today said that some organisations were “saving 50 per cent of their operational costs,” by moving to the cloud.
This saving he said was increasingly being seen as a source of innovation funding for CIOs who were still strapped for cash.
As a result demand for cloud computing services will grow at more than 20 per cent over the next four years, reaching $US150 billion by 2014 – three times the market’s current size – according to Gartner.