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Hadoop was one of the most-searched terms on Gartner’s website in 2011 through 2012, spiking to 601.8% over the last twelve months alone. Additional insights from the Search Analytics on Hadoop include the following:

There are only two questions that matter. “Would you buy from me again?” And, “Would you recommend our product or service?” Everything else is simply marketing curiosity. So what is it that really delights a customer and how do we capture and bottle it?

It’s time to strip away the hype surrounding analytics, big data and cloud computing by asking how these technologies contribute  to excellent customer experiences and greater customer engagement.  Those are the real catalysts of market growth and the greatest disruptive forces at work in enterprise software today.

Enterprise software vendors need to challenge themselves to deliver significantly more value if the potential for cloud computing is going to be achieved. Instead of just going for the low-end, easily customized processes within analytics, CRM, supply chain management, ERP, pricing or service, vendors need to take on the more challenging, complex hard-to-solve problems enterprises have.

Today we get to know Patrick McCarthy, VI’s Managing Director, who oversees our US and European businesses.

In some of my recent posts, I had mentioned that the risk of Lockins on a Cloud can have a significant impact for businesses running their services on the Cloud. I had mentioned about Cloud services like CloudSigma which offers data portability without lockins

Global adoption and growth of SaaS within enterprises is unevenly distributed yet growing rapidly.  One of the primary catalysts moving this forward are Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce and other platform providers lowering the barriers to creating new applications, continually investing in security technologies, and streamlining rapid prototyping, testing, and release of SaaS applications.

In our collective desire to equip our organizations or clients with the tools and technologies required to support the realization of SOA strategy and enablement, the focus of selection processes tends, understandably, to be centered on enterprise-centric concerns. However, we find that most organizations frequently overlook another critical consideration: developer friendliness.  No matter the degree of sophistication, at the end of the day, some poor individual is attempting to turn a specification or requirement into usable software.