DaveBirchall.com on Business Technology

Archive for November 30th, 2008

A recent study by CIO connect has confirmed the steady evolution of the CIO roles as we suspected.

Over 80% of respondants hold board positions or places on senior change management panels. 62% said they they were being turned to by board level collagues for “insight and leadership in business change”

CIO’ are finding themselves spending more time on business issues such as strategy, transformational change and project briefings.

”We are seeing CIOs emerging to take a leadership role in driving business change within their organisations,” said Nick Kirkland, chief executive at CIO Connect.

This affirms our launch of the MAMBA platform as an enterprise transformation engine allowing business and IT departments to work effectively together to keep pace of the change in a challenging operation environment.

Are you a business transformer? Do you need the tools to allow your business technology to keep pace with the relentlessly changing needs of the business? Get in touch to see how we can help you get ahead of the transformation curve…

Original article

Much rivalled and often debated programming languages PHP and .NET have seemingly been brought a step closer together by the development of a new compilation tool from Jadu.

The tool, called Phallanger has been developed by Jadu and will allow the compilation of well known and well used open source technologies to be compiled into an executable which paves the way for further development using the Microsoft framework.

The uptake for this product is thought to be high as customers welcome the breakdown in barriers associated with the long running battle between the Microsoft .NET framework and the open source community.

Customers can now benefit from a lean delivery and the best of both worlds.

More information

The compiler

Have you used the tool? What are your impressions? Comment back with your thoughts…