Enterprise Initiatives: Mashups and SOA wars "At the end of the day, the business doesn’t care what technologies you use. They just want their tools delivered faster, easier to use, and at their finger tips wherever they are." Service Oriented Enterprise: Why Enterprise Architecture is a Joke Interesting stuff from Jeff, particularly the comment on [...]
Posted on Friday, May 30, 2008 by admin
Courtesy of InternetNews on Tuesday I learned that IBM has added support for OpenID, Windows CardSpace and Eclipse’s Higgins Identity Framework to its Tivoli Federated Identity Manager (FIM) offering. As one of the enterprise identity management heavyweights, IBM’s announcement is an important endorsement of user-centric identity approaches. Such approaches are still in the formative phase [...]
Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 by admin
Here’s a little snipped screenshot from the MWD website homepage, as it appears from today. That little green box above our main menu doesn’t look like much, but it’s a big deal for us – as of today, we’re launching a completely new line of business that we expect to drive significant growth for us [...]
Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 by admin
Lombardi has just turned the heat up a notch in a battle that’s been waged quietly, behind closed doors, for a year or two now: the battle between specialist BPM vendors (like Lombardi and Appian) and “platform” vendors (like IBM, SAP, Oracle). Lombardi has just released a tool that it claims shows how Lombardi’s offering [...]
Posted on Monday, May 19, 2008 by admin
Compuware 2.0: We Make IT RockCompuware 2.0 – accompanied by a chugging "rawk" soundtrack and with a new COO. Part of the goal is to recruit bright young talent – but is this just like your Dad trying to look cool in a nightclub?
Posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 by admin
Over on the MWD “general” blog I recently provided an analysis of Oracle’s “enterprise 2.0″ play, following a meeting with Charles Phillips. One of the most interesting things about what Oracle’s doing from a BPM perspective is how it’s integrating its new Beehive collaboration technology platform with the service/process orchestration technology in BPEL Process Manager. [...]
Posted on Friday, May 16, 2008 by admin
One of the chief issues that we saw in TIBCO’s iProcess Suite when doing our assessment was the gaps and overlaps that existed between the two modelling and development environments that were part of the suite. We mentioned in the report that with the planned launch of Business Studio 3.0, TIBCO was pledging that reliance [...]
Posted on Friday, May 16, 2008 by admin
We quietly launched our BPM continuous advisory service, to a handful of existing customers who’d signed up beforehand, on April 14th. So far things seem to be going well, and the “all you can eat” licensing model seems to be allowing individuals from all over those companies to get access to the research easily – [...]
Posted on Friday, May 16, 2008 by admin
Ning Chairman Marc Andreessen dings Google’s Friend Connect | Outside the Lines – CNET News.com Interesting – is online community something you should create with a product or mash-in as a feature? Something to ponder…
Posted on Thursday, May 15, 2008 by admin
United States Patent Application: 0080082465A patent (which includes Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie amongs its inventors!) for an intelligent agent that monitors the environment, user characteristics and preferences to advise a user in “decision-making processes for efficiency or safety concerns” itickr.com » Blog Archive » SignOn.com / Google Apps IntegrationPing adds support for SAML to [...]
Posted on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 by admin
