February 2013
February 2013
From time to time, the corpus of information technologies absorbs new classes of technology, often in one fell swoop. The collection of technologies discussed here -- social, mobile, analytics, and cloud (SMAC) -- represents such a bundle. A decade ago, social, mobile, and cloud technologies were more a gleam in the eye of innovators than part of the CIO repertoire. Back then, analytics were frozen in a period of glacial change that was moving far too slow to attract much attention except from analysts trying to divine which bigger vendor was going to buy which smaller vendor. Today, social, mobile, analytics, and cloud are the cornerstone technologies driving innovation inside many if not most enterprises. In this issue of Cutter IT Journal, we bring together five articles with some different looks at the opportunities and challenges SMAC poses.
In this issue:- SMAC: Social, Mobile, Analytics, and Cloud
- Leveraging Social Science to Boost Adoption of SMAC Technologies
- Challenging CIOs to Drive Front-Office Transformation
- Is SMAC Adding Business Value or More Complexity and Uncertainty?
- How Can an API Platform Support the Integration of SMAC?
- Gamification: Driving Behavior Change in the Connected World
January 2013
January 2013
"Dashboards have not been invented to be mere data displays; their mission should be to help users make better decisions and achieve their goals."
-- Ilenia Fronza, Guest Editor
In this issue:- Making Managerial Dashboards Meaningful
- Dashboards Are Great, But We Still Must Watch the Road!
- A Case for Decision-Focused Dashboards
- Effective Dashboard Design
- Should We Abandon Performance Measures?
- Creating Dashboards That Think Globally, Act Locally
- Building Project Management Skill: How the Right Dashboard Drives Organizational Performance
December 2012
"Enterprise patterns are now an established approach that can be used to describe and explain architectural change at all levels -- from IT transformation to product lifecycle management, from business capability architecture to real-time enterprise frameworks."
-- Roger Evernden, Guest Editor
In this issue:- Enterprise Patterns: The Key to Delivering Enterprise Transformation?
- Practical Experience Using Enterprise Patterns During IT Transformations
- A Product Lifecycle Management Pattern Language for Telecom Operators
- Architecture Styles: An Enterprise Approach to Strategic Decision Making
- Business Capability Architecture Is the Tie that Binds All
- Venturing into Enterprise Transformation with Real-Time Enterprise Patterns