David Recordon: Facebook Connect Helps Make the Case for OpenID David Recordon of SixApart responds to Dick Hardt's concerns about the implications of Facebook Connect for OpenID Kaliya Hamlin – Identity Woman: Evolution of the open web – big step today. OWF – an "open" approach to the development of web standards (as an alternative [...]
Posted on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 by adminAs part of our BPM Continuous Advisory Service, we’re carrying out twice-yearly research studies which capture information about the state of maturity and practice of BPM in European businesses. We’ve finally finished analysing the results of our first study, and published the report. For me, the most interesting insight was that given the state of [...]
Posted on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 by adminAs part of our BPM Continuous Advisory Service, we’re carrying out twice-yearly research studies which capture information about the state of maturity and practice of BPM in European businesses. We’ve finally finished analysing the results of our first study, and published the report. One of the most interesting things for me in processing all the [...]
Posted on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 by adminToday IBM announced that has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ILOG that states IBM’s intention to acquire the French business rules and software development componentry provider. It’s subject to all the relevant legal and shareholder approvals of course, but ILOG’s board of directors has approved the sale. IBM has been an ILOG partner for [...]
Posted on Monday, July 28, 2008 by adminUncategorized
Via Service Oriented Enterprise, I recently picked up an Infoworld blog post by SOA journeyman David Linthicum, where he makes a couple of very strange points about SOA and ESBs. It may be, of course, that the post is pure link bait: certainly, David appears to have said some relatively sane things in the past, [...]
Posted on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 by adminWith small tech companies these days, it’s easy to assume they’re VC funded to some degree. Appian, on the other hand, has managed for its first 9 years completely self funded. Today it announced that it’s taken on a $10m investment from VC firm Novak Biddle. You can check out a lot of the detail [...]
Posted on Monday, July 21, 2008 by adminRead this new report. I know we’re not the quickest off the mark, but we wanted to get the whole team working together to author something comprehensive, and with travel and so on, that took a few days. We’ll admit to being pessimistic about BEA’s prognosis going into the Oracle acquisition, but Oracle’s early communications [...]
Posted on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 by adminI just listened (a little belatedly) to an informative Oracle podcast featuring David Shaffer (Senior Director of Product Management, SOA), who talks about where Oracle’s planning to go with its newly-enlarged BPM technology portfolio. He’s refreshingly honest about Oracle’s strengths and weaknesses, and pretty clear about what he expects to happen as the Oracle and [...]
Posted on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 by adminAfter months of preparation, we are delighted to announce the launch of our new Collaboration Continuous Advisory Service (CAS)! With the launch comes the publication of two new reports into the Collaboration service. Our first Strategic Insight report is entitled Blurred boundaries and co-dependence: collaboration meets knowledge management, and takes a look at the relationship [...]
Posted on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 by Angela AshendenWe are delighted to announce the launch of our second Continuous Advisory Service (CAS), which focuses on collaboration. Following the same format as our BPM Continuous Advisory Service (introduced in May), the Collaboration service offers a combination of in-depth reports, an interactive online vendor comparison tool, and optional analyst access relating to topics covered within [...]
Posted on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 by admin
