Srinivasan Sundara Rajan

With cloud adoption becoming a de-facto option for small and medium enterprises, large enterprises are relatively slower in their adoption of cloud. The main reason is that large enterprises have a very complex existing IT setup and no single offering from various cloud providers... (more)

Information Delivery 1.0 Issues With the enablement of new sources of data flow into the enterprise, it is time to look at the issues of Information Delivery 1.0 of the current enterprises. Disparate Data Sources, most enterprises have grown multiple database platforms and even ... (more)

As evident from various social media interactions, blogs, tech news sites and other Google searches, the two events that clearly brought the attention of every one happened in quick succession: iPad 3: The much-awaited next version of the popular tablet, while the official date ... (more)

SaaS / BpaaS Adoption This is a continuation of my series of articles on Industry SaaS. This term ‘Industry SaaS' can be interchangeably used with BpaaS (Business Process as a Service). However, the term ‘Industry SaaS' meaning a Software as a Service meant for a specific industr... (more)

Data Mining helps organizations to discover new insights from existing data, so that predictive techniques can be applied towards various business needs. The following are the typical characteristics of data mining. Extends Business Intelligence, beyond Query, Reporting and OLAP (... (more)

Enterprise 2.0 The concept of Enterprise 2.0 is quickly emerging. We are seeing exclusive conferences from industry leaders on the idea of Enterprise 2.0 to educate the traditional enterprise in adopting the latest collaboration and social business technologies. Enterprise 2.0 i... (more)

We are in an era where consumer social networking in the form of Facebook and Twitter are a part of everyone's life. There are several uses for these social networking tools in one's personal life; however, not many tools and the associated use cases are seen as effective for soc... (more)

Information Delivery Needs in Academics Analyzing massive amounts of unstructured content and extracting information out of them is necessary for many industry verticals and particularly important for academics. The following points highlight the growing needs for information del... (more)

Enterprise Cloud Adoption It's clear that since 2012 we have started to see serious attempts by enterprises to adopt cloud. What was seen as pilot projects or workshops in earlier years is now seen as production implementation projects on cloud. The cloud adoption takes various f... (more)

Service Oriented Architecture Service-oriented architecture is the first attempt in aligning the IT with the business and this is now almost a default architecture for all the new applications created in today's enterprise. The definition of SOA emphasizes the following: service-... (more)

In this  article  I would  like to look at a few tools which are overlooked when it comes to Big Data analytics. Organizations that  have  already  heavy investment  on Mainframe  and  would like to continue  with the utilization of Mainframe can consider these  tools for further... (more)

SaaS / BpaaS Adoption This is the continuation of my series of articles on Industry SaaS. This term ‘Industry SaaS' can be used interchangeably with BpaaS (Business Process as a Service). However, the term ‘Industry SaaS' meaning a Software as a Service that's meant for a specifi... (more)

The Future of the Most Popular Business Language Considering the important position COBOL still holds in the enterprise more people are looking for future directions on COBOL. Last time we analyzed couple of options in COBOL to Cloud Computing; these options are mostly targeted a... (more)

SaaS / BpaaS Adoption This is a continuation of my series of Articles on Industry SaaS. This term ‘Industry SaaS' can be interchangeably used with BpaaS (Business Process as a Service). However the term ‘Industry SaaS' meaning a Software as a Service meant for a specific industry... (more)

After its initial start in research work and in social network sites Hadoop is now becoming a big part of the enterprise IT landscape. There were recent announcements from Microsoft about embracing Hadoop as part of its Windows Azure High Performance Computing initiative and from... (more)

SaaS / BpaaS Adoption This is the continuation of my series of articles on Industry SaaS . This term ‘Industry SaaS' can be used interchangeably with BpaaS (Business Process as a Service). However, the term ‘Industry SaaS' meaning Software as a Service meant for a specific indust... (more)

We are seeing increased commitment from cloud providers from a security perspective as more and more providers are certifying their cloud offerings for standard security regulations like: ISO/IEC 27001:2005 standard SAS 70 Standard Safe Harbor Certification HIPAA Compliance Ther... (more)

SaaS / BpaaS Adoption This is the continuation of my series of articles on Industry SaaS. This term ‘Industry SaaS' can be used interchangeably with BpaaS (Business Process as a Service). However, the term ‘Industry SaaS' means Software as a Service which focuses on a specific in... (more)

This is the continuation of my series of articles on Industry SaaS. The term ‘Industry SaaS' can be used interchangeably with BpaaS (Business Process as a Service). However, the term ‘Industry SaaS' meaning a Software as a Service meant for a specific industry need needs more att... (more)

SaaS / BpaaS Adoption This is a continuation of my series of articles on industry SaaS. This term ‘Industry SaaS' can be interchangeably used with BpaaS (Business Process as a Service). However, the term ‘Industry SaaS,' which means a Software as a Service meant for a specific in... (more)