Stefan Ried

Despite the dot.com bubble burst in 2001, we do not face a tech depression. Please have a look at this recent survey among tech execs HERE

Hi,

I am just returning from the IBM Analyst Insight in Buchrest and like to share a first impression on Lotus Greenhouse.

This time, the outstanding professional event and analyst relations team of IBM took a special experiment. Instead of handouts or an USB stick they provided a Greenhouse account to everybody having the presentations stored on a collaboration space ready for download. Greenhouse is IBM’s cloud-hosted competitor to Miscosoft’s Sharepoint. Closely integrated to Lotus and Sametime, it provided multiple collaboration features. Here are my first steps with this new technology along two days of the conference:

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Hi,

as you know I am German and still live in Germany. So, after 10 months with Forrester and publishing 15 reports and teleconferences I thought it would be time to write a report specifically about the German market. It’s dedicated to all my friends at middleware and integration vendors who are in the most busy months of the year at all, the Q4!

Integration Vendors: Make Your Q4 Goals

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Platform as a Service (PaaS)

PaaS is a major new trend. Some SaaS application vendors of maturity level 3 will move into this model or are already on their way to it like salesforce.com with force.com. In a second move, the large systems integrators will evolve their major outsourcing and ASP business into a enterprise mash-up of Legacy applications and PaaS services complemented by ISV business logic. Finally there will be more PaaS opportunities than companies creating their own technology stack. This will be the chance for new software vendors creating PaaS infrastructure addressing new needs to new buyer groups. Call for action for all vendors of integration infrastructure NOW.

Stay tuned for the upcoming Forrester PaaS market sizing for the next 10 years!

Stefan