Burley Kawasaki
Burley leads Avanade’s global product and solution management organization. This includes responsibilities for identifying and incubating new products and solutions; proposing new business cases to drive return on investment; managing the portfolio of software IP throughout the product lifecycle; and aligning Avanade's product strategy with geographic areas, sales, marketing, engineering and strategic partners. Burley previously has held senior leadership roles at both Microsoft and Accenture. He had product management responsibilities within Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business, including ownership of services within the Windows Azure cloud platform; Microsoft’s middleware portfolio (including BizTalk Server and Windows Server application server product lines); and the .NET Framework and developer technologies. Burley spent eight years at Accenture in its Communication & High Tech industry practice, with responsibility for leading market offering strategy/execution for middleware offerings. Burley was also CTO and VP of E-business at Equarius, one of the premier Microsoft Gold Certified partners in the Pacific Northwest.
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Powerful Cloud Services with Opstera
It’s winter in Seattle… and for those of you familiar with the weather here, that means it’s extra cloudy. So I think it’s only appropriate to discuss today how Avanade can help our customers manage their clouds. Today, Avanade announced that it has acquired Opstera software that provides monitoring and management of applications running on [...]
Consumerization of IT: Getting Beyond the Myths
We’ve been talking a lot about the consumerization of IT here at Avanade, including the results of our latest global survey that tackles company perspectives on the trend. Our CTO, Tyson Hartman, highlights some of the myths that our survey dispelled in Forbes this week. Here’s a quick excerpt of the story: “The tale [...]
Software vs. Aliens
In my first Avanade blog post, I quoted a Forbes article that predicted software was moving us into a “post-hardware” world. Well, apparently software wasn’t content to just take over hardware… now it’s taking over all business itself! In a later Forbes piece headlined “Now Every Company Is A Software Company”, the thesis is made that [...]
Convergence at 36,000 Feet
Hi, I’m Burley Kawasaki from Avanade! I’m typing up this blog post flying at 36,000 feet on my way back from a busy trip to Europe. I spent the week visiting some of our European offices, with one of the main goals being listening to the technology trends and innovations that our regional teams are [...]
