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Photos: UK tech leaders gather for the CIO Forum
Photo Here David Butler, CEO of TripleIC Limited, puts the case for the motion. From left to right are: Phil Pavitt, group CIO of Transport for London; Rorie Devine; Jane Kimberlin, IT director of Domino's Pizza; Dominic Cameron, technology director at... [16 Oct 2007]
IT governance could be industry's biggest challenge yet
News However, while CIOs might not relish their increased workload, Butler Group president, Martin Butler, says that it could work in their favour, boosting a CIO's standing and responsibilities. A new report from analyst house Butler Group, IT... [19 Nov 2003]
Privacy fears over RFID must come before profit
News Martin Butler, founder and president of the Butler Group, has now said businesses need to address the privacy concerns if the real benefits of RFID are to be realised. Smaller suppliers will be drawn into adopting RFID technology if use among the... [26 Aug 2003]
Butler on: Collaboration
Comment Leading industry analyst Martin Butler here looks at what it means, how we achieve it and the benefits it can bring. Martin Butler is the founder of Butler Group, which is running an event focused on collaboration 17-18 September. [22 Aug 2003]
Spend on IT now before prices rise
News Martin Butler, founder and president of Butler Group, said IT decision-makers are unaware of their buying power for products, services and skills in the current depressed market. Analyst firm Butler Group predicts there will be no improvement in... [06 Aug 2003]
First reactions to Larry Ellison's Friday Firecracker
News Oracle is just wiping out the opposition," said the Butler Group's Mike Thompson. Its survival now looks doubtful," said Butler's Thompson. Analyst Martin Atherton of Datamonitor said: "Just as the application software market was in danger of... [06 Jun 2003]
Butler on: Integrated business intelligence
Comment Business intelligence (BI) solutions have all too often disappointed - compartmentalised and piecemeal in nature - which is why Butler Group founder Martin Butler is advocating integrated BI (IBI). Martin Butler is founder and president of Butler... [16 Apr 2003]
Web services winners and losers becoming clearer
News That's according to Martin Butler, founder and president of Butler Group, a UK consultancy that follows this market closely. Butler told silicon.com: "Microsoft have to be more open [than in the past], because web services will only work if they... [15 Nov 2002]
Grid computing and web services to save IT - eventually...
News The IT industry is set for at least another two years of low growth, according to the latest predictions from influential analyst Martin Butler, CEO of the Butler Group. However, Butler said a boom in web services and grid computing will eventually... [10 Jul 2002]
.Net: the making or breaking of Microsoft?
Comment Martin Butler, founder and research chair at Butler Group, said: "The ultimate web services dream is software truly delivered as a service. Alan Lawson, analyst at Butler Group, agreed: "They are totally committed to .Net now but they were also... [14 May 2002]
Quote unquote: The here and now of web services
News Martin Butler, founder and research chair, Butler Group Web services is the buzziest of buzzwords just now. In this week's Behind the Headlines, which you can view at http://www.silicon.com/a53245 , a group of experts look at what's really... [10 May 2002]
Web services - the hype versus the reality
Comment Martin Butler, managing director of research house Butler Group, is a realist. And Butler is not the only one to submit to this argument. Another problem is the fragmentation of standards today, according to Butler, and it is unlikely SOAP, UDDI... [04 May 2002]
Web services are '10 years away'
News According to Martin Butler, managing director of the Butler Group, web services, built intelligently and in real-time based on WSDL (web services description language) and SOAP (simple object access protocol), will not be a reality before 2012. [17 Apr 2002]
Dell and EMC: to merge or not to merge?
News Sue Clarke, senior research analysts for Butler Group, said: "The first thing that struck me when I saw this deal is whether this is pre-empting a take-over. Speaking to silicon.com, Dell's head of product marketing, Martin Boyce, said Dell is not... [23 Oct 2001]
Menage à trois - the truth about users, vendors and consultants
Comment Martin Butler's latest press seminar found him scathing about the state of the IT industry. One IT director who goes some way to agreeing with Butler's analysis is Brendan Major, IT director for the children's charity NSPCC. [26 Mar 2001]
