Have you noticed articles about failed transformation outnumber those about successes by a wide margin? The brag bias should be in favor of posting success, not failure. Results in the transformation world must be worse than even the article disparity shows. Transformations are failing, according to Gartner Group, at a 75% rate. Since nobody wants […]
In its day, the RPG-driven AS/400 was the early form of distributed computing. It was fast, inexpensive and RPG was relatively easy to learn. Today, the AS/400 can be the most gnarly of legacies. Nobody talks innovation with an AS/400. AS/400 apps are often the backbone of distribution or retail systems. They can be changed
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Technical debt. 66 percent of IT budget for software maintenance. Cannot easily transform an application because the source is missing. Legacy apps are a compliance nightmare. Please, is there anything you can do to get us an alternative to Oracle and VMware! Many C-level executives’ inflexibility or that of their organization come from the ossified
Does anyone remember DevOps? Surely the agile coaches infecting LinkedIn trying to sell their best agile practices are still around. But what about the other citizens, the ones called DevOps software employees? What happened to them? Well, let’s go there for a bit and as we do, let’s bring in our pals from SNYK, an open source
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LinkedIn and social media selling looks like it should work, and it does if you are selling to salespeople. When over 80% of B2B sales reps are not making quota, a sales VP has a job-life expectancy of 18 -23 months and the VC board is crawling up the CEO’s back for explosive revenue for
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The first parallel is you would not want your child to be either one. Certainly being a stripper is more exploitative than a cold caller, but they do have some common traits. Both hate doing what they are doing. In way too many cases, those doing these occupations are people with no other place to
When your B2B reps are struggling, SPAM is yielding Gmail addresses and the board is on your ass, sales enablement buys that quarter to find a new job. Parachute time! So what is sales enablement? CSO Insights says: Sales enablement is “a strategic, cross-functional discipline designed to increase sales results and productivity by providing integrated
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Microservices, containers, and object-oriented programming are delivering some level of benefit in replacing monolithic apps. Unfortunately, that benefit is not enough to move the needle against 70 percent to 90 percent of all digital transformation failures. To “transform” a monolithic, legacy app into an agile, slender, responsive set of microservices, requires months of evaluation of
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Microsystems – New Compute Paradigm For The Work From Home Generation Microservices, containers, object oriented programming, and building software from reusable pieces make good sense. Anything that rapidly enables expensive developers to do more with less, is a good thing. Now, microservices architectures have opened the door to an even more fundamental compute paradigm shift
