European Commissioner Neelie Kroes fears a great scarcity of app developers in the European ICT market. She has calculated that 700,000 jobs in the digital economy will be released the next few years. These are not only pure Apps developers, but are also adjoining functions as strategists, project managers, programmers, interactive designers, visual designers and read more
Today’s enterprise application landscapes are voluminous, complex and scattered. Over the past decades, new applications have been added to the landscape using the popular technology of that decade. Therefore, it can be that one organization has several applications built in Cobol, PL/1, Oracle Forms, PowerBuilder, Adabas/Natural, C, C++, Microsoft VB, Java or C#, and standard read more
What do (IT-related) architects contribute to your business? A simple question, but what different answers. An arbitrary tour along some clients gave me: “This business was not possible without sound systems architectures”. An answer of a business manager. “Puke them!” was an answer of a project manager. “What is the value add of architecture?”, is read more
More and more companies are going mobile. Just like some 15 years ago, when everyone needed a presence on the web, now everyone needs a presence in one app store or another. In contrast to 15 years ago, however, the technology is much more mature. We can build gorgeous apps – not Angry Birds or read more
The divide between Software Developers and Application (Support) Managers is a much-discussed topic that may be compared to “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”. But is this point of view still valid nowadays? Software development and application management have much in common. Software development has distanced itself from yesteryear’s quickly hacking together of read more
I used to play rugby, so I understand what good team work can do. I played in a student team as a tight-head prop (a forward position). With 70 kg, I belonged to the heavy players in our team. Students don’t eat well, and their appearance on a Sunday morning exposes an exhaustive “Saturday night read more
Gisteren heeft Atos de short list bekend gemaakt voor de eerste editie van de IT Challenge . Het thema van de eerste Atos IT Challenge is Smart Mobility. Met de IT Challenge streeft Atos naar het bevorderen en stimuleren van innovatie bij de toekomstige generatie IT-professionals. Met deze ambitie organiseert Atos de wedstrijd elke read more
A few weeks ago I wrote about the end of one-size-fits-all Application Management. Companies today need more than just one strategy for managing their application landscapes. Companies focussing on agility and growth need a different Application Management strategy than companies focussing on preservation and cost reduction. Therefore, companies will demand different services from their service provider. Moreover, companies read more
Our social systems shake on their foundations. But who is to blame? A comparison between maturing enterprises and maturing societies. Although the scope and extent is wider, similar processes occur, similar feelings emerge. When our enterprise systems shake on their foundations, “Burn the Hero” is the first thing people do. It is the easy way. read more
