Category Archives: Architecture

The iPad as IT Gadget of the moment

By Simon Coles | Published: June 2, 2010
I have spoken these words myself when asked about an architecture choice!
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“Chairman’s Opening Remarks” from SMI ELN Conference in London

By Simon Coles | Published: January 27, 2010
I’m chairing the first day of the SMI ELN Conference in London today. Which truth be told isn’t something I enjoy but hopefully I can add something. Anyway, you have to give a 10 minute presentation talking about wider industry issues and I thought it was appropriate to draw people’s attention to what’s happening in [...]
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Brief thoughts on the future of scientific UIs

By Simon Coles | Published: December 22, 2009
I’m not a great fan of the term “ELN” despite the name of this blog, only because it means too many different things to many different people. As such it confuses things rather than aids communication. Having said that, whilst I believe we’ve done a really good job in PatentSafe replacing the corporate aspects (record [...]
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SaaS: Shelfware as a service? | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

By Simon Coles | Published: October 26, 2009
Interesting perspective on the whole SaaS debate on the ZDNet Between the Lines blog in their post SaaS: Shelfware as a service?. Basically SaaS is not a magic bullet for enterprise apps, the problems associated with large complex software can’t be magicked away just because someone else runs the software for you. Our hosted products [...]
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Who chooses the collaboration tools?

By Simon Coles | Published: October 17, 2009
Andrew McAfee is spot on: “McAfee’s Hypothesis: Within organizations, collaboration technologies are dictated by the most powerful person involved in the collaboration.”
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