IBM Acquires Digital Assets of The Weather Company.

On October 28, 2015, IBM announced that it is acquiring the digital assets of The Weather Company. The digital assets are everything but the cable TV channel, The Weather Channel. This signals IBM’s continued movement toward becoming a data merchant that can...

Dell Expands Its Enterprise Portfolio with EMC Storage and Services

Dell’s portfolio of storage hardware and storage software will greatly expand with the acquisition of EMC Corp. in 2016. The acquisition will automatically extend Dell’s reach into high-end enterprise IT storage. Neuralytix believes it will also give Dell direct access to EMC’s large installed base – giving Dell an opportunity for IT transformation that would surround, or replace, aging storage systems with new ones from Dell.

SAP hybris Customer Days – Day 2

One of the more interesting topics that was covered in day 2 was a deeper dive into the hybris as a service (yaaS) platform and micro-services. Micro-services are smaller software modules that are focused on a single task or process. For yaaS, these are services that...

SAP hybris Customer Days – Day 1

Day 1 of the SAP hybris customer event provided an overview of the challenges facing customers and the solutions SAP hybris is proposing. The main theme was consistent with the SAP customer event held in New York on September 24th; the customer is now in control of...

IBM Watson Analytics – Analytics for All

I had the privilege to attend the IBM Watson Analytics “Analytics for All: Empowering Everyone to Know ” event on October 14th. I like these events better than the massive conferences. They are more intimate and allow for more meaningful conversations....