Doing More with Less: Beat the High Costs of IT

Computerworld IT Executive Briefing

JP and I spent the better half of our day last October 28 at the IT Executive Briefing of Computerworld. With all the mass-panicking happening with budget cuts and layoffs, the briefing was a timely eye-opener for businesses who use technology.

Winston Damarillo made the event worthwhile

Winston Damarillo, CEO of Exist Global – honcho behind Morph Code. His keynote touched on:

• Do more with MORE (not “do more with less”)
• Businesses should look more into collaborative tools (like Pigmata’s upcoming worktwit!)
• … and cloud computing.
• Here to stay: Software as a service (SaaS) and on-demand open source software

The other speakers touched on virtualization, using Red Hat Linux, and alternatives for call centers and IT security — all for lower capital outlay alternatives. But really, come on, this is in our Google Reader everyday, right? But I guess for the other attendees (in the usual office setting), they probably didn’t quite grasp what a compute cloud is.

I was so happy to see a lady entrepreneur in the tech-world take the stage. Ms. Helen Macasaet of Pentathlon Systems, specializing in open-source ERP (Compiere). Personally, I had a try at using OpenBravo.

All in all, thanks for the yummy food. 3.5 stars. Meaningful topics, very generalist and a good eye-opener.