Over on the main MWD blog, I just posted a piece providing my perspective on what IBM’s doing in event processing (or what it currently calls Business Event Processing, or BEP). Much of what IBM’s doing has ramifications for its BPM and SOA initiatives. The BEP story is a little confusing today, but there’s no [...]
Posted on Friday, September 12, 2008 by adminUncategorized
Earlier this week I attended an IBM press and analyst summit on the topic of “Business Event Processing”. To coincide with this, the company made some announcements on its “BEP leadership”, with over 3700 “BEP customers”. This is fairly early days in IBM’s attempts to tell a coherent story about what it’s doing in event [...]
Posted on Friday, September 12, 2008 by adminWilliam Vambenepe’s blog » Blog Archive » All I know about RDF/OWL I learned in preschool Lovely pomposity-pricking explanation of semantic models in RDF / OWL
Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2008 by adminUncategorized
Yesterday EMC, IBM, and Microsoft jointly announced Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) – a new specification designed to enable interoperability between content management repositories. The proposed standard, which was also being submitted to the open standards consortium OASIS yesterday, will create a common interface for accessing content stored in compliant repositories, simplifying the process of [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 by adminInfoQ: Does My Bus Look Big in This? Feel bad I didn't spot this earlier. Widely touted as funny/insightful, but is in reality a confused mixture of "witty" jokes, weak assumptions and logical sleight of hand. Not great. Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) – Save with Sun’s SOA Platform Switching campaign recently [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 by adminUncategorized
As part of yesterday’s release of the latest iteration of its webMethods Insight product Software AG announced an OEM partnership with Progress Software. This announcement adds the Actional runtime SOA management and monitoring technology (which Progress acquired back in January 2006) to Software AG’s existing Centrasite design-time governance capabilities (which were bolstered by the acquisition [...]
Posted on Tuesday, September 9, 2008 by adminSun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) – Save with Sun’s SOA Platform Switching campaign recently launched by Sun to tempt ex BEA customers away from Oracle and onto Java CAPS. The figures might (or might not) stack up – the problem is Sun's lack of reputation as a SOA/composite app platform provider InfoQ: [...]
Posted on Tuesday, September 9, 2008 by adminNew Microsoft virtualization license lets hosters deliver third-party software as a service | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com As part of App-V (aka Softricity) 4.5 Microsoft adds a service provider licensing option, allowing third parties to use App-V to stream applications – but NOT Microsoft software!
Posted on Saturday, September 6, 2008 by adminUncategorized
After an extended hiatus, we’re relaunching our podcasting efforts with a planned series of discussions focusing on the challenges and issues associated with software delivery processes and competence in enterprises. We’ve called this podcast series "Software Delivery InFocus", and it’s hosted by Bola Rotibi, MWD’s Principal Analyst for Software Delivery. Each podcast in the series [...]
Posted on Friday, September 5, 2008 by adminToday Appian announced that it’s formalised a partnership with Enterprise Architecture and Process Analyst tools vendor MEGA where the two companies will jointly sell and market each others’ technologies, and also work to integrate the MEGA tools and Appian Enterprise and Appian Anywhere. This is a sensible move from Appian and also not entirely unpredictable [...]
Posted on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 by admin
