Back at the beginning of March I asked “has Microsoft got BPM?“. At that time I hadn’t had the opportunity to get a briefing from Microsoft on its recent BPM moves, but now I have. So – has Microsoft got BPM? Yes and no. Microsoft is not about to become a fully-fledged BPM solution provider. [...]
Posted on Thursday, April 26, 2007 by adminUncategorized
During our “off air” preamble with Miko Matsumura prior to recording our podcast earlier this week, he mentioned that he likes MWD’s focus on “Big SOA”. I’d never thought of what we tell customers about SOA in this way before, but it’s true that we try and get people thinking about how SOA can help [...]
Posted on Thursday, April 26, 2007 by adminHere’s another in our series of interviews with vendors offering SOA “solutions”. This time we spoke to Miko Matsumura, head of product marketing for SOA at webMethods. In this conversation we ask the usual four questions – and also chat about the importance of webMethods’ SOA Link program, the role of the Infravio Governance Rules [...]
Posted on Thursday, April 26, 2007 by adminHere’s the fourth in our series of interviews with vendors offering SOA related products and services. This time it’s the turn of Kris Horrocks, who’s a Technical Product Manager in the Connected Systems Division of Microsoft. (The Connected Systems Division was formed in 2005 as part of the Server and Tools business, and it brings [...]
Posted on Thursday, April 19, 2007 by adminUncategorized
Just thought it would be worth linking to this post I just made over at the Technology Garden blog, the companion site for our new book on IT-business alignment. See you over there!
Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 by adminHere’s the third in our series of interviews with SOA vendors. This week it’s the turn of Roman Stanek – one of the founders of Systinet, which was bought by Mercury (which was then in turn bought by HP a few months back). The 31’17″ interview has some great stuff in it. As we ask [...]
Posted on Saturday, April 7, 2007 by adminUncategorized
Apologies for the poor pun, it’s the evening before the Easter break (public holidays on Friday and Monday here in the UK) and I’m feeling festive. So, it’s finally happened. For those of us with the dubious title of “industry watcher” it’s not a particular surprise to see webMethods acquired. We’d heard rumours for some [...]
Posted on Thursday, April 5, 2007 by adminOur second SOA vendor interview was with BEA’s Martin Percival yesterday. Again we followed our standard format – and in the resulting 34’30″ podcast we get into discussing: BEA’s experience of delivering “information as a service” projects within SOA initiatives How SOA is about more than just WS-* technology BEA’s transition from a pure Java [...]
Posted on Wednesday, April 4, 2007 by adminSubscribers to our website will know that we publish a monthly newsletter: signposts. We thought it might be of interest to our blog readers too, so here it is. You’ll find: details of the first of our CIO interview podcasts – plus news of other upcoming research and exciting initiatives a “food for thought” piece [...]
Posted on Wednesday, April 4, 2007 by adminUncategorized
I spent the beginning of last week in San Diego at the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS), the company’s annual conference focused on all things systems management. With time to kill on the 15-hour return journey, I began to draft my thoughts only for this post from Coté over at RedMonk to pop into my feed [...]
Posted on Monday, April 2, 2007 by admin
