David Cummins

Out of the cloud: is your enterprise ready for software as a service (SaaS)?

david.cummins@framegroup.com.au — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:00:00 GMT

A friend asked me recently what I thought about SaaS in the enterprise.

He has a budding startup and is looking at different models to sell his project management software to enterprise customers. He wanted to know whether it would be better to offer an on-premise solution or whether enterprises are sufficiently mature to adopt software as a service.

What followed, over a lunch, was a brainstorming session on SaaS and what are some of the concerns with using SaaS in the enterprise.

Tags: cloud computing,technology

Digital signage—change, control, consume

david.cummins@framegroup.com.au — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:00:00 GMT

Digital signage is now ubiquitous technology. The business benefit of digital signage is realised when providing dynamic and engaging content, that is, where the content can be exchanged easily and be adapted to the context and audience, especially when compared to static signage.

Tags: content management,digital signage,communication technology

The power of distributed computing

david.cummins@framegroup.com.au — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:00:00 GMT

Distributed computing is not new, but the internet and new business models are making it affordable for smaller organisations to leverage the power of these computing networks.

Tags: content management,distributed computing

Catch the Wave

david.cummins@framegroup.com.au — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:00:00 GMT

Google Wave is being sold as ‘email re-imagined’, changing which part of email is where. In email, the messages are the entities sent across the ethernet, mirroring the mental model of real-world traditional mail. Wave, instead, hosts the conversation.

Tags: collaboration tools

Collaboration tools and the code review process

david.cummins@framegroup.com.au — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:00:00 GMT

Most developers agree that reviewing code is an important part of (hopefully) reducing the number of bugs introduced into the system. However, the challenge is keeping your team productive whilst maintaining a code review schedule that gets enough eyes across the complete code-base.

Tags: code review,collaboration tools,application development

SOA ... what's the big deal?

david.cummins@framegroup.com.au — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:00:00 GMT

SOA stands for service-oriented architecture. The term encompasses many meanings, but the one that I like to use is that it is a systems development and integration methodology where systems group functionality around business processes and package these into interoperable services.

Tags: service oriented architecture,application development,development methodology