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Posted by: Rani Goel June 14, 2011  Have you pondered this question? Is this a force-du-jour, or is it here to stay? With cloud services revenue close to $20 billion per year, and projected to grow at around 25 percent compounded annual growth rate by 2013 (recent Telco 2.0 report), you could say it’s here to stay. On the other hand, will the recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) breakdown test the CIO affinity for cloud services?
A Compelling Range of Benefits with Cloud Services
The benefits of using cloud-based enterprise software services are quite clear:
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Posted by: Helen Dwight May 10, 2011  I asked in the first Decision Factor blog post why companies hadn’t adopted business analytics en masse yet given the concept of business intelligence has been around for what seems like forever. I read a New York Times article recently (There’s No Such Thing as Too Much Information) that not only endorsed the benefit of business analytics but also attempted to explain why analytics has yet to be widely adopted.
The article reviewed a study of 179 large companies by an economist at …
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Posted by: Paul Clark April 27, 2011  We’ve all heard debate on “big data” and approaches to dealing with it. A big part of the solutions usually entails making it easy to do what we do (e.g., analysis) faster and more easily on larger sets of information than ever before. That’s a great first step; but looking ahead, will it really be enough?
The need for analysis will likely be with us forever, and with it the need for experts in the field. What I’m more interested in is those of us who need to make …
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Posted by: Siddharth Taparia April 20, 2011  On April 21, 1526, the First Battle of Panipat was fought in Northern India. This was a truly remarkable battle, not just because it was waged for the control of India but also because of the disproportionate size of the opponents that were fighting. On one side was the incumbent king, the Sultan of Delhi with his army of over 100,000 and at least 300 elephants. On the other side was a much smaller force of less than 15,000 being led by Babur.
As history would have it, Babur …
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Have you pondered this question? Is this a force-du-jour, or is it here to stay? With cloud services revenue close to $20 billion per year, and projected to grow at around 25 percent compounded annual growth rate by 2013 (recent Telco 2.0 report), you could say it’s here to stay. On the other hand, will the recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) breakdown test the CIO affinity for cloud services?
