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I’ve had a bit of a graphic spurt (as it were) and so here’s another blog post based around a diagram. I was talking to a journalist a couple of weeks back about the kinds of functionality that customers need to look for when looking for tooling for SOA initiatives, and which vendors provide which [...]
Posted on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 by adminAt the beginning of March I attended Microsoft’s Architect Insight event in Newport, Wales. The event is run by Microsoft but the idea is to try and stimulate a community of interest around IT architecture. The flavour is therefore not so much “listen to what Microsoft is doing” and more “let’s talk about what architecture [...]
Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 by adminUncategorized
Over here is the first of what we hope will be a series of podcasts with CIOs who’ve instigated work to improve IT-business alignment in their organisations. The interview is with New Zealand-resident Peter Burggraaff, until recently the CIO of NZ retail chain Farmers Trading Company. It follows on from the work we did last [...]
Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 by adminUncategorized
The Liberty Alliance today announced its Advanced Client specifications which are designed to allow enterprise users and consumers to manage identity information on devices such as cameras, handhelds, laptops, printers and televisions For those of you that are so inclined, you can read the specifications here but, in a nutshell, the Advanced Client relies on [...]
Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 by adminUncategorized
BEA today announced a stategic partnership with CA, which will see the latter’s access and identity management solutions (SiteMinder and Identity Manager) integrated with the former’s WebLogic and AquaLogic application and service infrastructure platforms. I agree completely with Wai Wong’s (BEA’s executive vice president of products) statement in the press release that Identity and Access [...]
Posted on Tuesday, March 6, 2007 by adminExcuse the use of the blog to highlight our own research but I wanted to let any of you out there who are interested in identity management know that the first of our identity management infrastructure assessments – Novell – has just been published. Here’s the summary to whet your appetites: Novell has exploited its [...]
Posted on Friday, March 2, 2007 by adminSo I got blog-tagged by Ashesh. Hmmm! Thanks, I think…this has been going around for at least two months now, so I was kind of expecting to have escaped. Perhaps it says about where I stand in the blogerarchy… At this point, it’s customary for the taggee to tell 5 things that people don’t necessarily [...]
Posted on Friday, March 2, 2007 by adminIn October Microsoft finally got SOA (kind of)… now has it got BPM? I’ve not had a briefing on Microsoft’s BPM initiative, but I did see the announcement of the Business Process Alliance partner initiative. And I also read Sandy on Microsoft’s BPM presentation at the Gartner BPM event – and I for one pretty [...]
Posted on Thursday, March 1, 2007 by admin
