Here is a summary of the Enterprise Services blog topics for this past week:
Unified Communications has been a hot topic during the last few month with everyone, including me, making predictions for UC’s future. Some of these perspective have been going off in many directions though, so I thought I’d try to help define a vision of the flow going forward.
Just like the ancient city of Jericho, the walls of the traditional office are crumbling down. Welcome to the world of the virtual office where the physical and the traditional 9-5 boundaries of the workday have disappeared for many workers.
The HP Labs 2011 Annual Research Report is an outline of our current research efforts, spotlighting some of our most exciting accomplishments – including technology commercialization, demonstrators and open innovation activities – and most importantly, introduce our team.
Next week, The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) will host its World Conference in Las Vegas, with the theme: A Data Strategy for the Enterprise – Uniting Business and IT in a Common Cause. We are excited about this theme and to be a sponsor of this event.
HP Enterprise Services leveraged its flexible Medicaid Management System design to create a new automated enrollment subsystem for the Oklahoma Health Care Authority. View the video and read the case study.
Last year at the WorldFuture Conference, Thomas Frey of the DaVinci Institute offered up Eight Grand Challenges for humanity. If you look at these grand challenges, you will either be frustrated by their constraints, snicker at their impossibility or start trying to work out how they could actually happen.
Is the human mind capable of communicating a cosmic message about life in the future through music? That is what one wonders when you read the Forrester BT 2020 paper by Phil Murphy (Forrester subscription required).
I was fortunate enough to spend a day at MIT this week in the Center for Digital Business talking with them about their research.
Do I buy tech products based on if they are marketed specifically for women – i.e.. Pink? I recently read the article “LL Cool G: Ladies Love Cool Gadgets Too, Says Study” by Jordan Crook that has made me stop and think about what attracts me to gadgets.
As I am watching the Super Bowl 2012 between the Giants and the Patriots, I see Tom Coughlin and Bill Belichick pacing the sidelines anxious about their respective teams' performance. Very quickly, however, I see that it is not just the Super Bowl coaches who would be concerned about Performance on Super Bowl Sunday.
