As a CIO, Why Should I Support an Internal Developer Portal?

Developer portals are one of the newest ideas to gain the interest of the technology community.  We’ve known for a long time that individuals and practitioner teams in companies are often the ones who drive software and infrastructure strategies in organizations. Especially with software development, the technologies that make development easiest and fastest are often…

Jetlines : cap sur les nuages

La nouvelle compagnie aérienne canadienne se dirigera droit vers les nuages lors de son vol inaugural cet été, en exploitant l’intégralité de ses TI en mode virtuel. « Tout ici est infonuagique. Nous sommes complètement « cloud ». Je n’ai absolument rien sur place, nulle part, ni en colocation », dit Robert Pope, DSI de Canada Jetlines. Le décollage…

ServiceNow targets procurement workflow automation

ServiceNow is using its Knowledge customer conference in Las Vegas to relaunch a feature of its latest software release that it feels did not get enough attention first time around: Procurement Service Management. This is fresh territory for the Now Platform, which has so far been used to automate workflows in IT (such as service…

Streamlining IT for agility

There’s never been more pressure on IT to deliver technology-enabled change to the business. Yet the volume of demands placed on IT can make it challenging for IT leaders to concentrate IT resources on the right efforts. Here, agility is essential, and smart IT leaders are doubling down on efforts to streamline IT, whether that…

What is product lifecycle management? Organizing the development process

Product lifecycle management definition Product lifecycle management (PLM) is an enterprise discipline for managing the data and processes involved in the lifecycle of a product, from inception to engineering, design, manufacture, sales and support, to disposal and retirement. PLM brings together people, data, processes, and business systems to aid an organization’s ability to develop, market,…