Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Alan Perkins, CIO of Altium (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What is the architecture that you are using to build and roll out something like this? I presume that this cloud computing discussion is relevant to this new marketplace, this electronics marketplace that you are developing, right?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Alan Perkins, CIO of Altium (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: From your point of view, where is the industry today in terms of adopting a cloud-based model such as your local design vault and a cloud-based release design vault where designs from participating designers all over the world sit? Is that a reality today, is that

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Alan Perkins, CIO of Altium (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini We have touched upon the electronic design automation (EDA) industry in some of the previous interviews as part of our Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing series. We noticed that there has been extremely limited cloud adoption in the EDA space so far. As we prepare to ring

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: Liferay

Liferay is the creator of Liferay Portal, an enterprise Web platform for that includes packaged applications and an enterprise application framework in a single solution. The portal’s capabilities include a variety of business solutions, such as content and document management with Microsoft Office integration, Web publishing and shared workspaces, enterprise collaboration, social networking and mash-ups,

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Pat Toole, CIO Of IBM (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Pablo Chacin and Saurabh Mallik This is the first interview in our series on cloud computing. Sramana talks with Pat Toole, the CIO of IBM. He is responsible for advancing the company’s transformation agenda and aligning IBM’s information technology investments with the company’s business strategy. Pat became CIO of

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Forbes Column 08: Building A Smarter Corporation

Here’s a new piece from Forbes, Building A Smarter Corporation, which discusses the use of sophisticated AI to enhance enterprise collaboration.

Deal Radar 2008: Jive Software

A leader in web collaboration, Jive Software makes business social software that connects employees to each other and to their clients and partners. Their main focus is to improve teamwork and increase productivity through the use of their primary products, Clearspace and Clearspace Community. Other products include Jive Forums, a forum software, and Openfire, an

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Deal Radar 2008: Dimdim

Dimdim is a web-based conferencing service. Unlike other online conference platforms, Dimdim does not require users to download any client – a big win over the competing offerings from WebEx, Adobe, and GoToMeeting.