If you read the articles on this blog, you’ll see “business agility” mentioned many times. That the cloud increases business agility is a claim underlying much of what is written on the web about the cloud. But what exactly is business...

In recent years, we have seen the emergence of a plethora of new abbreviations that all have one thing in common: they all end in "aaS", or more precisely, the expression "as a service". That expression originates from cloud computing...

Enterprise applications have become a byword for poor user experience, bloated feature sets, and development cycles measured in years. There are many reasons that enterprise software has historically offered a poor experience compared...

Although its influence is waning, Platform-as-a-Service was once seen as the answer to many enterprise application development prayers. Operating at a higher level than Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service allowed...