Tom Hughes
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

With over 30 years of experience in the IT industry, Tom brings a unique perspective of someone who has worked in an IT shop, implemented ERP systems, run an IT consultancy, and developed strategies for controlled growth of the IT infrastructure. As Manager of Business Development for the Technology Solutions Practice of CIBER, Tom's role is to help in the review and positioning of new product offerings from IBM and other significant technology partners of CIBER.

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The Importance of Infrastructure Design Early in ERP Implementations

Tom Hughes, Business Development Manager  :  15 December 2009 / 1:05 PM  :  1 1 comments

Designing an infrastructure solution to fit a client’s new ERP solution is much more than a “sizing exercise”. It is an inter-related project of its own that is key to the success of the overall ERP project.  To ensure a successful completion, a client’s unique needs must be considered. Issues including database cost, goals and objectives surrounding required uptime and disaster recovery, new technology trends, virtualization, existing workloads and multi-environmental transitional plans required by a new ERP system are only a few areas of discussion that need to be taken into account.

To achieve the greatest benefit...

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Posted in Servers, Storage and Software on 15 December 2009

Tagged: Enterprise Architecture  ERP  IT Planning  IT Strategy  Lawson  Oracle  Technology Architecture  

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Oracle buys Sun - A Perspective

Tom Hughes, Business Development Manager  :  04 May 2009 / 8:07 AM  :  0 0 comments

Oracle’s recent surprise offer to purchase Sun for $7.5B has created a new, yet untested, model for Oracle, and one for which no real patterns of success exist – the acquisition of a major, albeit struggling, hardware company by a software company.    It can be argued that Oracle was being purely opportunistic, stepping into a void created by the inability of IBM and Sun to come to terms on price and conditions. Yet, under the covers and specifically looking at the components of Sun, the results can be viewed as quite strategic.  Basically, it is a matter of perfect timing.

Let’s first look at what Oracle gets.  For $7.5B ($...

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Posted in Servers, Storage and Software on 04 May 2009

Tagged: IBM Server  Oracle  

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Extending Application Delivery through Mobility Solutions and Kiosks

Tom Hughes, Business Development Manager  :  16 April 2009 / 10:12 AM  :  0 0 comments

How do you bring your applications to employees on the shop floor, in the warehouse, on the road, or out on the floor? This is a dilemma faced by every industry. Whether you are a manufacturer, in the healthcare industry, operate a trucking company, or run a restaurant, the true assets in your company, as Henry Luce once said, go home at night. CIBER, at the Lawson CUE 2009 user conference in San Diego, will be presenting two solutions based on technology that helps to solve this common problem by extending application delivery through technology.

Mark Laatz, of CIBER’s Mobility Solutions Practice, ...

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Posted in Servers, Storage and Software on 16 April 2009

Tagged: ERP  Healthcare  Interface Design  Kiosk  Lawson  Mobility  Technology Architecture  

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Extending Applications through Self Service Kiosks

Tom Hughes, Business Development Manager  :  12 March 2009 / 9:42 AM  :  0 0 comments

Ever go through the self-service checkout at the grocery store and wonder why the applications we deploy to our users can’t be made as easy to use? Do you have employees who don’t even have access to corporate systems at work, at home, or on the road? You could be in healthcare, retail, restaurants, trucking, even education. In every one of these industries, there are unique applications for touch-screen technology that could enhance the ease-of-use for employees and customers, lower costs, and increase user satisfaction and loyalty. And the solution is based on a concept known in IT for ages, the KI...

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Posted in Servers, Storage and Software on 12 March 2009

Tagged: Healthcare  Kiosk  

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Pulse, 2009: A summary of the IBM Storage and Tivoli Announcements

Tom Hughes, Business Development Manager  :  13 February 2009 / 2:43 PM  :  1 1 comments

I  have just returned from PULSE, the annual conference sponsored by IBM's Tivoli software brand, and as usual, IBM put on a first class event concentrating on "Managing the World’s Infrastructure".  What is different about this year’s event, and is also reflected in the other brands and products from IBM, is that we are seeing the start of delivering truly integrated solutions that are no longer just software, or just hardware, but a combination of products designed to solve business problems, many of which are delivered as appliances.

It was amazing, but understandable, to hear that the world’s information growth in 2008...

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Posted in Servers, Storage and Software on 13 February 2009

Tagged: IBM Storage  Tivoli  

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Welcome to CIBER's Technology Solutions Practice Blog

Tom Hughes, Business Development Manager  :  10 February 2009 / 12:44 PM  :  0 0 comments

Welcome to CIBER's Technology Solutions blog, concentrating on IBM servers, storage, and software. CIBER, an IBM Premier Partner for over 12 years, brings history and perspective to the IBM product lines and direction. During that time, we have provided product, services, and consulting to companies in a variety of industries, including healthcare, distribution, manufacturing, retail, utilities, not-for-profit, and others from a few employees to over 5000; from a few million dollars in revenue to global companies and those with global reach who have run-rates of well into the billions.

What is common among all of these organization...

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Posted in Servers, Storage and Software on 10 February 2009

Tagged: BladeCenter  IBM Storage  Information Management  iSeries  Lotus  pSeries  System i  System p  System x  Tivoli  WebSphere  xSeries  

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