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HP yesterday announced long-awaited (at least as far as we are concerned) enhancements to its SOA software and services, which see the company beginning to realise the potential of its acquisition of Systinet (via Mercury) when it comes to SOA governance. Back in March, the other Neil highlighted that lifecycle management is one of the [...]
Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 by adminEarlier in January, BPM consultant-cum-analyst Sandy Kemsley made some interesting points about how the big analyst firms “parcel up” their analyses of technology areas and vendors. Her catalyst was an observation on the way that Gartner and Forrester each segment the BPM technology space. BPM isn’t unique, but it is challenging as a segment for [...]
Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 by adminIs Oracle really the next Microsoft? | The Register The full write-up of Freeform Dynamics’ Register poll on BEA and Oracle – worth a read
Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 by adminUncategorized
As someone who wrote a little on the potential acquisition of BEA by Oracle, I’ve been in a quandary since the news of the acquisition broke: frankly, I felt that I needed to write something – but there was already so much other commentary out there (much of it saying the same thing), I didn’t [...]
Posted on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 by adminIdentity Woman » On Openness and the Open Social Network Kaliya, aka Identity Woman, on identity and the social web. Interesting discussion of multiple personas and how Higgins fits in Identity Woman » The “We” of Identity for “Our Web” (the Social Graph) Identity Woman, once again, on the role of identity in Web 2.0
Posted on Saturday, January 19, 2008 by adminWhy Six Sigma Is on the Downslope – Harvard Business Online’s Tom Davenport Something I was beginning to realise as I dug into this for our BPM research: Six Sigma is only one (limited) tool among many.
Posted on Friday, January 11, 2008 by adminExcuse the blatant promotion but I just wanted to highlight a new On The Radar report I published today covering “operational business intelligence” vendor Altosoft. While I’m at it I may as well call out a couple of other OTRs from Angela looking at enterprise social networking provider blueKiwi and enterprise wiki provider Socialtext. Oh [...]
Posted on Thursday, January 10, 2008 by adminThe FASTForward Blog ยป Enterprise Social Computing: What will happen in 2008?: Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and CommentaryPredictions for enterprise social computing in 2008 courtesey of Charles Armstrong, CEO of Trampoline Systems. On “Consent Management” | CSO BlogsEric Norlin suggests that the active consent of users when their information is collected will be an [...]
Posted on Wednesday, January 9, 2008 by adminUncategorized
In recent discussions with one customer, I ended up drawing a series of little pictures to try and summarise the five potential benefits that can come from pursuing SOA. It seemed to work for them, so I thought I’d reproduce it here and see what our readers think. In order to test the old adage [...]
Posted on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 by adminUncategorized
Microsoft today announced that it has offered to acquire Norwegian search vendor Fast Search and Transfer (FAST) for approximately $1.2 billion, or 19 Norwegian kroner per share. There are two interesting aspects to this. Firstly – assuming the acquisition goes ahead – the removal of FAST as an independent company will leave Autonomy to truly [...]
Posted on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 by admin
