IBM has the largest design team in the world!

Aaaamazing!!! RT @Design_Week: We look at how IBM is building the world's biggest design team: http://bit.ly/1zpMRzs http://twitter.com/Design_Week/status/568428120358961152/photo/1

We get to use IBM Verse, regardless whether the CIO office is ready or not...

Whoa.... a first... in the recent employee broadcast, our CEO, Ginni, said that she was surprised that IBM can only use our world-changing-new-cloud-base email, IBM Verse, only in 2Q. She asked the CIO office why and was told that there is a need to migrate the employee email to the cloud first and it will be by batches. She asked why? Some people do not need to have all their historical mails to be moved. And as such, she told us that if we want to use IBM Verse without needing to migrate our emails over, we can start as soon as March, when the product is generally available. Wow! Who would have thought! This reminds me to the beta-opt-in that many email providers set up where you need special invitation to even try. Now we can use it once it is available, no need to wait for the CIO office to say so. Go Ginni!

You see, we move in the type of speed and agility of a startup!

Serious cool stuff happening here @IBM!

IBM SmartCamp Finals...

jeng jeng jeng!
drumrolls...

This year's Finals will be held in InterConnect @ LasVegas on the 23 Feb.

Be sure to listen in to the live broadcast. And be sure to vote for your favourite (link below)

Can't be in #Vegas for #IBMSmartCamp?  Check out our #startup finalists, and vote for your favorite. http://t.co/B99CH3ojRT 

Design in motion

Late December saw IBM launching a few enterprise app built on the iOS, a result of our Apple-IBM partnership, and the news was abuzz by how minimalistic and great those designs were. Even John Gruber, who is known as an Apple evangelist, said the following:

These don’t look like “enterprise” apps. They look like regular apps — really good ones, the sort of apps Apple would choose to feature in the App Store. This was a huge question I had about this deal. Great design is fundamental to what sets iOS apart, and what has enabled iOS to lead the post-PC disruption of the entire consumer computing industry. Would great UI design play a part in this IBM/Apple enterprise endeavor? Looks to me like the answer is yes.

What many may not know is that IBM set up a design lab to focus on the UI/UX of enterprise mobile app design.

Check it out the website dedicated to this : ibm.com/design/

And I am putting screen shot of the website here. THIS IS THE NEW IBM :D
Seriously cool stuff!

Apple-IBM enterprise apps released!

Wow, take a look at this blog by the legendary John Gruber:

" These don’t look like “enterprise” apps. They look like regular apps — really good ones, the sort of apps Apple would choose to feature in the App Store. This was a huge question I had about this deal. Great design is fundamental to what sets iOS apart, and what has enabled iOS to lead the post-PC disruption of the entire consumer computing industry. Would great UI design play a part in this IBM/Apple enterprise endeavor? Looks to me like the answer is yes."

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/12/10/apple-ibm-enterprise-apps

One of the key initiatives of the IBM-Apple partnership is that Apple engineers will bring their legendary UI/UX design leadership to help IBM move one hundred enterprise apps into the iOS platform. That means, the new IBM apps on iOS platform will not only feature enterprise grade functionalities but it will also have Apple-grade user interface and experience! These are seriously great future to look forward to! 

Look at the beautiful designed enterprise apps here:

http://www.apple.com/business/mobile-enterprise-apps/#insurance

Wordpress in Bluemix

I saw this in Bluemix Dashboard this morning - Wordpress templates! In Bluemix! Whaaaat? That is so cool! Wordpress is the popular website template that you see in those super cool, beautiful websites. Those Web 3.0 type with all the bells and whistles that are widely popular among true web designers.  And now it's in Bluemix! That means, one day we will see all these cool website made by famous designers hosted in Bluemix. How cool can that be. Coolest! That's what my 5 year old will exclaim!

MVCA

Just spent an hour with members of Malaysia Venture Capitalist Association, to share about our program for cloud startup. They seemed very interested in the program which grant a US$10K/month of IBM cloud services for 12 months to their portfolio. That means, if the VC sees a great potential in a startup and invested in them, these guys can have their infrastructure and technology worries taken care of by IBM cloud, well, at least for a year. And that's the point. We kickstart their aspiration and when they are successful, they continue to use IBM cloud. Hopefully, we can make a difference for a startup. Check it out: ibm.biz/CloudStartup