Last week I accompanied one of my sales colleagues on a meeting with a prospect. My company provides software application development and integration tools and the sales meeting was with the IT team of an insurance company. The agenda for the meeting was a...
This article is based on a series of three blog posts I wrote entitled “How to justify Application Modernization to your CFO.” Very similar cost/benefit justification principles apply to other IT projects, such as supporting users with mobile technology,...
The 3rd annual iPulse Survey, organized by LANSA, ran during November and December 2012 and was promoted to the global IBM i community via email, social media and publicized by leading industry media organization – IT Jungle. This year’s survey attracted just...
This post is a bit of a rant. I’m not continually amazed by what I’m about to describe – because I have seen it too often. What I find hard to understand is why corporations continue to fall into the same trap. And what is the trap I’m talking...
Legacy Asset Management and Transformation is the practice of maintaining older application assets so that you can continue to derive value from your stable line-of-business applications – while executing a plan to gradually transform and possibly even replace them. A...