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Cloud Revolution – The Blind Entrepreneur
[Following from Cloud Revolution] Profitable since the first quarter, 375 million page views per month, $4 million in annual revenue, 75 employees and $30 million in venture funding. Certainly sounds...
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Azure AD and the Progression of Microsoft Identity and Access Management
Defining Microsoft IDAM The words ‘Identity and Access Management’ (IDAM) mean different things to different people – and a lot of confusion still reigns about what this area represents to an IT...
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Ideal Workloads for Cloud
Working in the fast changing world of IT, sometimes is good to stop, take a breather and reflect on where we are and how we got here. Cloud computing is certainly no exception and has had an enormous...
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Office 365: To Federate or Not to Federate… that is the Question
Yesterday, Microsoft released a new version of their ‘DirSync’ utility (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn246918.aspx) which up until yesterday provided a basic ‘copy’ of your local Active...
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The changing role of the CIO
With the growth and commoditization of computing resource, and the inevitable introduction of cloud computing, both as a software, platform and infrastructure services, the Chief Information Officer’s...
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Good Practices for Managing Windows Azure Subscriptions
Overview Over the years it has been drilled into me to use “Least Privilege” access whenever and however possible. Least Privilege is all about limiting users, systems, and services to only those...
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The FIM User Experience
A recent post by my colleague Jamie Skella “What UX Isn’t” started me thinking about how UX applies to FIM. Throughout my career as an Identity Management Consultant, I’ve seen projects reach a point...
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Cloud Strategy – do you need one?
Today’s organisations demand that their services perform better, cost less, are more reliable and offer greater flexibility than ever before. With high quality and quickly evolving consumer...
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Start-up like a pro or fast track cloud in your enterprise. . .
As part of my job I regularly interact with IT and business leaders from companies, across a diverse range of industries. A similarity I see across most businesses is that they contain a bunch of...
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The Business Case for Microsoft Office 365
Businesses of all sizes and industries are considering adopting Microsoft Office 365. Some customers have a clear vision of the desired capabilities. Others have weighed up the options and identified...
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Introduction to User Experience Design
User Experience is everything that affects a user’s behaviour and interaction with a product or service. It’s about how a person feels, understands, and perceives a product.
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Driving innovation & user experience using Kano model
How often are you asked to jump straight into design without doing any research? Well, it happens to me quite often. Reason – lack of time or budget. No matter how tight the budget or timeline is, I...
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Applying Business Rules to Profile Photos Using Microsoft Cognitive Services
A customer I am working with at the moment is in the (very) early stages of discussion around the gathering and application of profile photos across their internal systems. In this particular case, we...
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Customer Experience Vs. User Experience
I was in a design meet-up a couple of weeks ago where I heard someone saying this – CX is the same as UX. And to my surprise, there were about a dozen of people who nodded (in agreement) to this...
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Why user experience matters
User Experience is a means to drive product innovation and differentiation. When implemented successfully, UX contributes to a number of critical business key performance indicators including customer...
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Enterprise Cloud Take Up Accelerating Rapidly According to New Study By McKinsey
A pair of studies published this month by global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company entitled IT as a service: From build to consume show enterprise adoption of Infrastructure as a...
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7 tips for making UX work in Agile teams
Agile is here to stay. Corporates love it, start-ups embrace it and developers live by it. So there is no denying that Agile is going nowhere and we have to work with it. For a number of years, I’ve...
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The Art Of War – Is your Tech Department Combat Ready?
Over the course of a series of articles, I plan to address strategic planning and why it’s becoming more important in the technology fuelled world we live in. It’s critical an organisation’s response...
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Where’s the source!
In this post I will talk about data (aka the source)! In IAM there’s really one simple concept that is often misunderstood or ignored. The data going out of any IAM solution is only as good as the data...
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What’s a DEA?
In my last post I made a reference to a “Data Exchange Agreement” or DEA, and I’ve since been asked a couple of times about this. So I thought it would be worth while writing a post about what it is,...
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