I’ve recently been discussing with clients and prospects around the use of Microsoft vs Everything else technology. Specifically in comparison with ‘open source’ technology. It’s been a revelation for me that Microsoft is prevalent in building internet applications and websites. I’m not against Microsoft technology per se. MS technology is widely used and they have…
Author: Alpesh Doshi
I am an Entrepreneur and CEO of a company focused on implementing Social Business Solutions
Data, Data Everywhere!
Data is everywhere. Data is being collected through websites, intelligent devices, mobile devices etc etc. Everything we do on any channel is being captured by someone. Content is also being generated in large amounts: The world is drowning in data. Soon, it’s estimated there will be 1 trillion Internet-connected devices in the world. Every day, 15 petabytes…
No more IP Addresses – the last of the first generation
It was announced today that the last group of the IP address available on the current internet have been handed out to ISPs. This is the last batch of 16million addresses, without which your website, connection to facebook, email etc would not work. Even though this allows 4.3billion connections to the internet, we need more!…
Network Analysis – Enterprise 2.0 Workshop
I facilitated a workshop entitled “How to discover and use inherent relationships’ at the Enterprise 2.0 Summit. As part of that workshop, it was clear to me that there is significant work to be done to join up and create a successful Enteprise 2.0 delivery strategy. Network Analysis (or as it used to be called, Social…
Enterprise 2.0 Summit – Frankfurt (27th-28th October 2010)
I attended the e20summit in Frankfurt after submitting and being accepted to facilitate an Open Work space session. The conference was organised to discuss and and provide use cases and examples of the application of Social Media and Enterprise 2.0 within large enterprises. It turned out that there were a number of areas that were…
A new article published in Architecture and Governance Magazine
I recently authored and article jointly with Bruno Bonati (a former director of Credit Suisse). It’s my first ! An article about how a Services Architecture approach can help to integrate banking organisations together. Please have a look here
Open Source and SOA
One of the blogs I read regularly, but never really comment on is J.P. Rangaswami. In his blog entry on Open Source, he talks about the benefits of Open Source….. I was in a discussion with a prospect recently where I put forward the idea that open source could be used to deliver a large…
A new (blogging) beginning
After much searching for blogging software and using various ones in the past I have now settled on WordPress (www.wordpress.org). I have previously used MoveableType (www.sixpart.com). Although I think it’s a great blogging tool, I find that it was taking too much of my time to update and maintain. Perhaps when I have more time…