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Declining IT Innovation in the Enterprise
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has creator: Mike Bergman
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created: 2011-01-17T22:31:47Z
content: Reasons for and Implications from Innovation Moving to Consumers Today, the headlines and buzz for information technologies centers on smartphones, social networks, cloud computing, tablets and everything Internet. Very little is now discussed about IT in the enterprise. This declining trend began about 15 years ago, and has been accelerating over time. Letting the air out of the enterprise IT balloon has some profound reasons and implications. It also has some lessons and guidance related to semantic approaches and technologies and their adoption by enterprises. A Brief Look at Sixty Years of Enterprise IT One can probably clock the start of enterprise information technology (IT) to the first use of mainframe computers in the early 1950s [1], or sixty years ago. The earliest mainframes were huge and expensive machines that required their own specially air-conditioned rooms because of the heat they generated. The first use of "information technology" as a term occurred in a Harvard Business Review article from 1958 [2]. Until the late 1960s computers were usually supplied under lease, and were not purchased [3]. Service and all software were generally bundled into the lease amount without separate charge and with source code provided. Then, in 1969, IBM led an industry change by starting to charge separately for (mainframe) software and services, and ceasing to supply source code [3]. At about the same time integrated circuits enabled computer sizes to be reduced, with the minicomputers such as from DEC causing a marked expansion in number of potential customers. Enterprise apps became a huge business, with software licensing and maintenance fees achieving a peak of 70% of IT vendor total revenues by the mid-1990s [4]. However, since that peak, enterprise software as a portion of vendor revenues has been steadily eroding. One of the earliest enterprise applications was in transaction systems and their underlying database management software. The relational database …
encoded: Reasons for and Implications from Innovation Moving to Consumers Today, the headlines and buzz for information technologies centers on smartphones, social networks, cloud computing, tablets and everything Internet. Very little is now discussed about IT in the enterprise. This declining trend began about 15 years ago, and has been accelerating over time. Letting the air out of the enterprise IT balloon has some profound reasons and implications. It also has some lessons and guidance related to semantic approaches and technologies and their adoption by enterprises. A Brief Look at Sixty Years of Enterprise IT One can probably clock the start of enterprise information technology (IT) to the first use of mainframe computers in the early 1950s [1], or sixty years ago. The earliest mainframes were huge and expensive machines that required their own specially air-conditioned rooms because of the heat they generated. The first use of “information technology” as a term occurred in a Harvard Business Review article from 1958 [2]. Until the late 1960s computers were usually supplied under lease, and were not purchased [3]. Service and all software were generally bundled into the lease amount without separate charge and with source code provided. Then, in 1969, IBM led an industry change by starting to charge separately for (mainframe) software and services, and ceasing to supply source code [3]. At about the same time integrated circuits enabled computer sizes to be reduced, with the minicomputers such as from DEC causing a marked expansion in number of potential customers. Enterprise apps became a huge business, with software licensing and maintenance fees achieving a peak of 70% of IT vendor total revenues by the mid-1990s [4]. However, since that peak, enterprise software as a portion of vendor revenues has been steadily eroding. One of the earliest enterprise applications was in transaction systems and their underlying database management software. The relational database …
topic: Adaptive Innovation
topic: Open Source
topic: Semantic Enterprise
topic: Software and Venture Capital
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links to: information technology
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links to: Harvard Business Review
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links to: IBM
links to: integrated circuits
links to: minicomputers
links to: DEC
links to: [4]
links to: RDBMS
links to: Informix
links to: network databases
links to: object databases
links to: [5]
links to: Altair 8800
links to: Apple II
links to: Microsoft
links to: Novell
links to: local area networks
links to: three-letter acronyms
links to: ERP
links to: BI
links to: CRM
links to: EIS
links to: stovepiping
links to: information silos
links to: SAP
links to: World Wide Web
links to: hypertext
links to: Internet
links to: Mosaic
links to: Netscape browser
links to: HTML
links to: HTTP
links to: enterprise portals
links to: e-commerce
links to: dot com crash
links to: Google
links to: Facebook
links to: Flickr
links to: Wikipedia
links to: data warehousing
links to: [6]
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links to: Constellation Research
links to: Web 2.0
links to: MDM
links to: SaaS
links to: PaaS
links to: [9]
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links to: [12]
links to: similar Accenture survey
links to: ETL
links to: Alfresco
links to: Pentaho
links to: Talend
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