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Report:Mobile Application Development: Weigh User Demands Against Flexibility And Costs

Springboard Research witnessed strong uptake of the development of mobile "micro-apps" within Asia Pacific (AP) enterprises during 2010. The majority of these applications were driven by internal...

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Report:Key Drivers For A New(er) IT Infrastructure

Springboard Research foresees several major forces that are coalescing to drive the next generation/evolution of IT infrastructure. While not all organizations will transform themselves within the...

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Report:Cloud Computing In Australia And New Zealand 2010: End User Adoption Trends

This document provides an overview of cloud computing in Australia and New Zealand for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and challenges,...

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Report:The Future Of BI In Asia Pacific

The Top 10 Trends Affecting Market Maturity And Growth

Business intelligence (BI) adoption drivers, technology understanding, and organizational process maturity continue to vary widely across Asia Pacific. The one constant in this market is the...

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Report:Structural Issues (Need Not) Hinder Cloud Computing For Telcos

Springboard Research has witnessed strong interest - and uptake - from telco providers in delivering cloud computing services to both enterprise and small to medium-size clients. However, structural...

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Blog:Asia Pacific in 2013: Hype, fear, panic and paranoia drives the “googlization” of business intelligence and analytics

In a previous post I highlighted that disruptive technologies don't even need to be implemented to be disruptive. The mere fact that vendors and other organisations are either creating or being...

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Report:Why Organisations Are (Willingly) Sacrificing Email Functionality In The Cloud

Email has emerged as one of the leading enterprise applications for cloud computing over the last 12-18 months. Both Microsoft and Google have become the dominant enterprise players with VMware...

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Report:Begin BT Strategic Planning With Clear Business Goals

Business Goals: The BT Strategic Planning Playbook

Clear business goals lie at the heart of good strategy. Unfortunately, many organizations have aspirational goals that make strategic planning difficult at best, and they lack the mechanism to...

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Blog:The Empowered BT Era Will Force (Yes, Force) A New Role For CIOs - And Drag IT Out Of The Backrooms

Reporting Manager. Computer Systems Manager. MIS Director. IT Manager. Chief Technology Officer. Director Of IT. Chief Information Officer.  It's not just a change of job title. It's the...

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Report:Virtualization In Asia Pacific 2010-2011: End User Adoption Trends

This report provides an overview of the virtualization adoption trends in Asia Pacific, excluding Japan (APEJ) for vendor strategists. Survey data reflects over 450 interviews with CIOs, IT managers,...

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Report:Google In The Enterprise: Look Past The Brand, Focus On The Apps

"Google Apps," a suite of online productivity applications developed by Google, has remained a curiosity for the majority of business users in Asia Pacific (AP). While mainstream media frequently...

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Report:Evaluating Cisco's Strategy: How Many Market Adjacencies Are Too Many?

This document provides vendor strategists with an evaluation of Cisco's corporate restructuring announcement. Cisco's vision is explained and its network-centric offerings are analyzed. Additionally,...

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Report:Gauging SAP's Unsteady Software Evolution: From Application(s) To Platform(s)

SAP's "dominance" as an enterprise application platform has slowly diminished over the past five years. Previously fueled by market optimism, relatively strong economic growth, and a heavy emphasis...

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Report:Introducing The Forrester BT Leadership Maturity Model

A Self-Assessment Framework To Focus And Accelerate Your Transformation

Many CIOs struggle to answer two deceptively simple questions: 1) How are we doing, and 2) what should I prioritize? These questions invite a host of complexities, raising questions about the role of...

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Report:Apple iPads: Ego Over Ergo

Apple iPads are rapidly gaining attention in the consumer world, forcing enterprise IT to re-evaluate tablets as a potentially supported business device. Springboard Research believes that Apple...

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Report:Big Data Adoption Trends In Asia Pacific: 2013 To 2014

The maturity and sophistication of existing data warehousing (DW) implementations across the Asia Pacific (AP) region has been variable, to say the least. If the hype around big data is to be...

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Report:Compliance: A (Surprising) Business Driver For Enterprise Social Apps

Where social software was once considered a "plaything" for tech savvy users and generation-Y, leading organisations globally are now recognising that the benefits extend well beyond simply...

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Blog:Make no mistake - IBM’s Watson (and others) provide the *illusion* of cognitive computing

IBM has just announced that one of Australia’s “big four” banks, the ANZ, will adopt the IBM Watson technology in their wealth management division for customer service and...

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Report:Cloud Forewarning: Using Cloud Applications Does Not (Necessarily) Mean Storing Data In The Cloud

Springboard Research notes continuing concerns around information security and data residency when evaluating potential cloud service providers/solutions. We are also witnessing a slow - but growing...

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Report:Cloud Adoption In Asia Pacific: Just An Email Away

Springboard Research notes rapid, rising interest in software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud-related offerings - despite the impending and inevitable fatigue from over-hype. As distinct from managed...

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Report:Oracle's Journey To Cloud Computing: Denial, Defiance, Acceptance . . . Dominance?

Following the recent successful integration of its latest acquisitions, Oracle is ramping up its marketing messages around cloud enabling enterprise data centres via what it is positioning as an...

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Report:Adoption Of Cloud Computing Will Increase Despite The (Perceived) Lack Of Security

Springboard Research notes continuing media and industry attention on the (perceived) lack of security in the cloud. While cloud computing does indeed come with many inherent security risks,...

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Blog:Why BT (Business Technology) Is Like Sex: If It Doesn't Feel Good, You're Doing It Wrong

Technologists love definitions. In fact, technologists particularly like arguing about definitions. The term "BT" for example, is constantly under debate. Is it IT or BT? What is BT anyway? How is it...

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Report:Linux Adoption Among SMBs In Growth Markets, Part 1: Technical Reasons

Springboard Research notes a variety of factors that drive SMBs in growth markets either toward, or away from, Linux. Though a significant proportion of adoption today remains server-based, Linux...

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Blog:The Changing Landscape Of Data Visualization Requires A Radical New Approach

In a recent media interview I was asked about whether the requirements for data visualization had changed. The questions were focused around whether users are still satisfied with dashboards, graphs...