Dana Gardner

We focus on Deloitte-Australia and how their business has benefited from leveraging the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model for project and portfolio management (PPM) activities. We spoke to Deloitte-Australia at a recent HP conference in Barcelona to explore some major enterprise software and solutions, trends and innovations making news across HP’s ecosystem of customers, partners, and developers. To learn more about Deloitte’s innovative use of SaaS hosting for non-core applications, join here Ferne King, director within the Investment and Growth Forum at Deloitte-Australia in Melbourne. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Disclosure: HP is a sponsor of BriefingsDirect podcasts.] Here are some excerpts: King: The SaaS model made sense to us, because we had a strategic direction in our firm that any non-core applica... (more)

Case Study: How Cardinal Health Uses SaaS Tools to Improve ALM

Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on the experience of Cardinal Health in using software-as-a-service tools from HP to develop and test applications. Dana Gardner: Hello, and welcome to a special BriefingsDirect podcast series coming to you from the HP Discover 2011 conference in Las Vegas. We're here on the Discover show floor the week of June 6 to explore some major enterprise IT solution trends and innovations making news across HP’s ecosystem of customers, partners, and developers. I'm Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, and I'll be your host throug... (more)

Talend Open Source Approach Provides Holistic Integration Capability

This discussion centers on how the role and impact of integration has shifted, and how a more comprehensive and managed approach to integration is required, thanks to such major trends as cloud, hybrid computing, and managing massive datasets. Moreover, the tools that support enterprise integration need to be usable by more types of workers, those that are involved with business process activities and data analysis. The so-called democratization of IT effect is also rapidly progressing into this traditionally complex and isolated world of applications and data integration. So, ho... (more)

HP Releases Networking Solutions

HP has announced new solutions and technology along with an expanded entrepreneur program to enable small and midsize businesses (SMBs) aimed at driving growth, improving employee productivity, and protecting assets. SMBs, a $234-billion market, face daily challenges that include controlling costs, managing employee productivity and gaining access to credit. HP says these new offerings are designed to address those challenges. [Disclosure: HP is a sponsor of BriefingsDirect podcasts.] HP also has expanded its investment with 40 new training centers in its global program, HP Learnin... (more)

Leveraging TOGAF 9 for Innovation, Market Response, & Governance Benefits

We examine the maturing use of The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), and how enterprise architects and business leaders are advancing and exploiting the latest Version 9. The panel explores how the full embrace of TOGAF, its principles, and methodologies are benefiting companies in their pursuit of improved innovation, responsiveness to markets, and operational governance. Is enterprise architecture (EA) joining other business transformation agents as a part of a larger and extended strategic value? How? And what exactly are the best practitioners of TOGAF getting for thei... (more)