Thursday, August 25th, 2011

Predicting the effects of new technology can be a challenge
Although it’s still early days, from a long-range historical point of view, the cloud has actually hovered above our various computer-powered preoccupations for a good few years now. Adoption rates for this game-changer motor ever forward, with bugs being identified and addressed, and capabilities being increasingly celebrated.
But it’s worth noting that we remain far from an end point in our understanding of, and appreciation for, this paradigm-shifting newcomer to our daily lives. The Microsoft-produced white paper, The Economics of the Cloud (TK), offers some insight on how this new age might evolve, and urges its proponents to take the long view and see the underlying economics as having the biggest impact on long term take-up rates. (more…)
Tags: 360 WorkBook, business software, CFO, cloud, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, I.T., Infrastructure Technology, Microsoft Unified Communications, SharePoint Hosting, Software as a Service (SaaS), the cloud
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
I read something recently that tugged at some of my dangling entrepreneurial threads.
It was an account of a recent study, an annual report on CFOs from global business process outsourcing company WNS, in which analysts spoke breathlessly of the looming sea change for the chief financial officer’s role on the corporate stage.
The concept of a revised version of this essential corporate functionary is interesting to me, particularly as it relates to the question of how 360 Visibility might support it. (more…)
Tags: CFO
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