Service Oriented Enterprise: SOA and WOA ComparisonMore fuel for the SOA vs WOA fire. "This is excellent nonsensical dribble". Woo! Enterprise Architecture in ANZ: What we sought in a tool for business/technology transformation and EAAnother great post about requirements for tooling to support EA initiatives Enterprise Architecture in ANZ: What we learned about EA implementationsGreat [...]
Posted on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 by admin
stackoverflow.com – Joel on Software A new (free) programming Q&A community site. It’ll be really interesting to see how this one pans out – what kind of structure will they put in place to enable open contributions, but also ensure the best quality answers? They’re open to suggestions…
Posted on Sunday, April 20, 2008 by admin
Over the years I’ve been helping to run MWD I’ve been to quite a few events, talked to many enterprise IT folks and talked to many tech vendors, too – and one of the topics that comes up most often is the relationship between BPM and SOA. There’s been a bit of a run on [...]
Posted on Friday, April 18, 2008 by admin
Comparing Amazon’s and Google’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Offerings | TalkBack on ZDNet Isn’t this like trying to compare Solaris (or your favourite server OS) with J2EE?
Posted on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 by admin
The Virtual Quill: A herring of a different color Dave Kearns, who has been debating meta versus virtual directory with Kim Cameron, responds to Kim’s point that metadirectories do not need to store all identity data Independent Identity: Standards and Implementations Oracle’s Phil Hunt explains the potential role of the Identity Governance Framework (initiated by [...]
Posted on Monday, April 14, 2008 by admin
More on the second generation of metadirectory A review of the evolution of metadirectories and how virtual directories are no better a solution to support today’s distributed, service-oriented applications
Posted on Friday, April 11, 2008 by admin
As part of my research into all things collaboration, not least through my development of our forthcoming continuous advisory service, I have regular briefings with software vendors to find out what they are doing. Usually vendors are more than pleased to brief us analysts – anything to build the profile of their company or products [...]
Posted on Thursday, April 10, 2008 by admin
Today we published another On The Radar report. This one looks at The Dot Net Factory which has taken its purpose-built workflow management platform (based on Microsoft’s Windows Workflow Foundation) to create EmpowerID, a role-based identity and entitlement suite. As the name of the company and the technology foundation of its offerings suggest, The Dot [...]
Posted on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 by admin
A few days ago Matt Asay wrote a piece on Linux’s use on Wall Street in his “Open Road” blog. He recounted how one of the MDs from Bank of New York Mellon saw “open source as the foundation of choice for their innovation”. He goes on to say that this runs counter to prevailing [...]
Posted on Tuesday, April 8, 2008 by admin
Those of you interested in application development and agile methodologies might want to take a look at our latest On The Radar report, which looks at Portugal’s OutSystems. As well as offering a comprehensive set of application development and management capabilities, the company provides customers with a choice of on-premise or hosted deployment (with plans [...]
Posted on Tuesday, April 8, 2008 by admin