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PowerPoint and its infamous bullet points have been so abused in later years that the term “PowerPoint death” has become widespread, to the extent that some voices claim that PowerPoint is making us stupid or threatening our thinking and reasoning.

It’s understandable that as a reaction some very popular books published in the last couple of years about presentations focused on creating minimalist slides, with stunning visuals and little text. These decks might be appropriate for ballroom-style presentations before large audiences expecting to be motivated and/or entertained.

However, the vast majority of presentations in the business world are boardroom-style presentations in which these design guidelines have little application.

El Arte de Presentar’s review of Speaking PowerPoint. Indeed. I love that sentiment and always struggle to explain it to the children of Zen Presentation-think.

BMC streamlines job management to address the devops need for speed (451 Reports)

My report on BMC’s Control-M’s recent updates catering to developer is now up, for 451 clients. The 451 Takes is below: BMC’s proposition to speed up the batch job process cycle squares with what we tend to see in the mainstream wilds of IT. Cloud and devops are creeping into these shops at a steady pace. These shops often have sophisticated batch job processing at their center – submitting inventory orders, processing HR files, supply chain analytics, or otherwise nightly updating the enterprise state machine to drive decisions and actions in the next business day.
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BMC streamlines job management to address the devops need for speed (451 Reports)

My report on BMC’s Control-M’s recent updates catering to developer is now up, for 451 clients. The 451 Takes is below: BMC’s proposition to speed up the batch job process cycle squares with what we tend to see in the mainstream wilds of IT. Cloud and devops are creeping into these shops at a steady pace. These shops often have sophisticated batch job processing at their center – submitting inventory orders, processing HR files, supply chain analytics, or otherwise nightly updating the enterprise state machine to drive decisions and actions in the next business day.
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AWS opens its desktop as a service to the market, joins the growing DaaS fray (451 Reports)

Our report on Amazon WorkSpaces is up. The full report is available for 451 research clients, but here’s the 451 Take. When it comes to making things cheap, few companies have the zeal and credibility of Amazon. While new, mostly non-Microsoft devices are rapidly changing and fragmenting the end-user device market, there’s still a palpable need to support existing Windows applications. DaaS seems like a viable ‘green screen’ strategy for supporting these corporate applications on new devices.
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AWS opens its desktop as a service to the market, joins the growing DaaS fray (451 Reports)

Our report on Amazon WorkSpaces is up. The full report is available for 451 research clients, but here’s the 451 Take. When it comes to making things cheap, few companies have the zeal and credibility of Amazon. While new, mostly non-Microsoft devices are rapidly changing and fragmenting the end-user device market, there’s still a palpable need to support existing Windows applications. DaaS seems like a viable ‘green screen’ strategy for supporting these corporate applications on new devices.
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IT ops startup Boundary raises $22m C round to expand R&D, sales and marketing (451 Reports)

I put up a short, “analyst note” on Boundary’s funding today, which 451 clients can read in full. Tracking from our last report on them in November 2013, they’ve increased both customer count and average deal size, so good for them. I always found it hard to find the market sizing for “systems management delivered over public cloud” (or “IT Management as a Service”/ITMaaS) market when I was at Dell looking at that.
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IT ops startup Boundary raises $22m C round to expand R&D, sales and marketing (451 Reports)

I put up a short, “analyst note” on Boundary’s funding today, which 451 clients can read in full. Tracking from our last report on them in November 2013, they’ve increased both customer count and average deal size, so good for them. I always found it hard to find the market sizing for “systems management delivered over public cloud” (or “IT Management as a Service”/ITMaaS) market when I was at Dell looking at that.
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Google Chromebooks at work in the fragmented PC era (451 Report)

We teamed up with Spiceworks recently to write a report checking in on Google Chromebooks, mostly around their market-share and usage. It was a nice experiment to see how our two pool of data and analysis could be meshed together to investigate how IT is operating in the wild. Spiceworks looked at 71,159 companies worldwide to see what OSes were on their desktops, which gave us some good input on Chromebook usage.
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Google Chromebooks at work in the fragmented PC era (451 Report)

We teamed up with Spiceworks recently to write a report checking in on Google Chromebooks, mostly around their market-share and usage. It was a nice experiment to see how our two pool of data and analysis could be meshed together to investigate how IT is operating in the wild. Spiceworks looked at 71,159 companies worldwide to see what OSes were on their desktops, which gave us some good input on Chromebook usage.
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Tasktop Sync 3.5 adds Agile & devops integrations, foreshadowing an ALM system of record (451 Report)

Version 3.5 of TaskTop is a dot release with some fun stuff scurrying around in the background. Here’s the 451 Take: Tasktop has done well in recent years as a pragmatic way to connect together disparate silos in the application lifecycle development space. The approach Tasktop is taking to better unify the process of getting software out the door is unique and encouraging, as its wide array of OEM partners attests.
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