I’m pleased to announce that MWD’s new report, Ideals and reality: understanding the context for your enterprise collaboration strategy, is now available for free download from our website. The report offers our perspective on the role of technology in enterprise collaboration, and highlights the key issues facing organisations looking to implement collaborative working practices. One [...]
Posted on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 by adminAmazon EC2 offers a shortcut to SaaS | Software as Services | ZDNet.com A summary of the evolution of Amazon’s "infrastructure-as-a-service" offerings aka EC2, S3 and SQS RightScale makes EC2 a better fit for SaaS | Software as Services | ZDNet.com RightScale offers a service to manage Amazon’s EC2. The article includes some debate around [...]
Posted on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 by adminTodd Biske: Outside the Box; Blog Archive; Driving SOA Great comments from Todd on the latest Zapthink "flash", which posits the needs for a "VP of SOA". Presumably this is aimed at US organisations, where you can become a VP simply by having someone report to you? Platformonomics – Blue Haze Charles Fitzgerald of Microsoft [...]
Posted on Saturday, November 17, 2007 by adminUncategorized
Back in September Oracle announced that it had acquired privately-held Enterprise Role Management (ERM) player Bridgestream continuing its “identity management-through-acquisition” strategy. With many eyes focused on the company’s Oracle Open World shindig this week, Sun also entered the fray with its plans to acquire another leader ERM independent: Vaau. Role-based access control (RBAC) is hardly [...]
Posted on Friday, November 16, 2007 by adminEnterprise Architecture: From Incite comes Insight…: Call for Papers: Enterprise Architecture ConferenceThanks for the interest in having us present, James! Unfortunately IRM has a habit of turning down our applications to present at EAC… innovation playground Idris Mootee: How Will Enterprise 2.0 Transform The WorkplaceIdris Mootee discusses the practicalities and potential of Enterprise 2.0. Sun [...]
Posted on Thursday, November 15, 2007 by adminArch BPM blogger-cum-analyst Sandy Kemsley references an interesting conversation she had with some webMethods customers at Software AG’s Integration World event where the customers “pooh pooh the BPM vendors who don’t provide the whole integration stack”. To me, this is interesting because (as Sandy calls out) “these customers are coming from the traditional EAI-type usage [...]
Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 by adminUncategorized
There’s lots of pseudo-intellectual waffle about social graphs out there at the moment, largely in relation to Facebook (and its implementation of an advertisement-supported business model based on the information it holds about people, their connections, and their interests). Can we just call it a database, and move on?
Posted on Friday, November 9, 2007 by adminDavid Recordon’s Blog – Web 2.0 Expo Berlin: Open Platforms and the Social Graph Presenation from David Recordon summarising the requirements for an open social graph and some of the key enablers Defragging identity, disclosures and vendor relationship management | Between the Lines | ZDNet.comIdenity-related discussions from the Defrag conference: Dick Hardt on trust and [...]
Posted on Wednesday, November 7, 2007 by adminUncategorized
…at least when it comes to discussion on the web. Google announced its OpenSocial social networking API project just 5 days ago – and now the company’s own search engine reports over 7,700,000 hits for “OpenSocial”. And it’s still alpha code! A day earlier, Microsoft announced Project Oslo. And despite the announcement being what Gavin [...]
Posted on Tuesday, November 6, 2007 by adminArchitecture : Gartner says EA will be stopped Well they would say that Michael, wouldn’t they? They want people to go to their conference to find out more
Posted on Monday, November 5, 2007 by admin
