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Links for 2008-11-28 [del.icio.us]

BPM is not Software Engineering « Go Flow Provocative post by Keith Swenson of Fujitsu. Pretty sure Ismael Ghalimi of Intalio won't like it…

Posted on Saturday, November 29, 2008 by

What role should SaaS play in your BPM strategy?

Today we published a new Strategic Insights report in our BPM advisory service, which examines the emerging trend for BPM technology providers to explore software-as-a-service (SaaS) models for delivering their offerings.If you’re a subscriber to our BPM advisory service, you can read the report here. When we looked into this topic, we found that in [...]

Posted on Friday, November 28, 2008 by

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On SOA governance: for SOA, read CPOA?

A couple of weeks ago I was the happy recipient of a review copy of the excellent Todd Biske’s SOA Governance book. Todd’s “Outside the Box” blog is one of those rarities where every post is worth reading twice – so I was very interested to see whether his writing ability might stretch to something [...]

Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 by

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Are you capable of watching your technical debt?

Bob McIlree wrote an interesting blog at the start of October about watching the amount of ‘technical debt’. The term is one that I had not previously encountered. Ward Cunningham first defined it back in 1992 and Martin Fowler provided an additional and perhaps slightly clearer perspective in 2003. “…You have a piece of functionality [...]

Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 by

Links for 2008-11-07 [del.icio.us]

Johannes Ernst – NetMesh: Let’s Draw the “Open Stack” as a Proper Stack A useful diagram representing the open identity specifcations and initiatives: Yadis, XRDS, OAuth, OpenID; OpenSocial etc Kim Cameron – Microsoft: Project Geneva – Part 5The final post from Kim on the PDC announcements. This once highlights how LiveIDs can be used as [...]

Posted on Saturday, November 8, 2008 by

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The death of middleware

I’ve been spending a fair bit of time this week talking to a journalist I’ve known for years, Danny Bradbury, for a series of features he’s writing on the middleware strategies of some of the big enterprise software vendors. After our first chat, something suddenly struck me (probably very belatedly): when middleware is talked about [...]

Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2008 by

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Notes on PDC: Windows Azure

There were always going to be high expectations for Microsoft’s 2008 Professional Developer Conference (PDC). This was the first PDC without Bill Gates at the helm, and let’s also not forget that the PDC event scheduled for 2007 was unceremoniously cancelled at the last minute – fuelling speculation that Microsoft’s product roadmap was in the [...]

Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2008 by

Links for 2008-11-04 [del.icio.us]

IdentityBlog – Digital Identity, Privacy, and the Internet’s Missing Identity Layer The 2nd of Kim Cameron's PDC replays: this discusses the Geneva Framework aka Zermatt; the Geneva Server and the next iteration of CardSpace and explains how they address interoperable federated identity scenarios IdentityBlog – Digital Identity, Privacy, and the Internet’s Missing Identity Layer Number [...]

Posted on Wednesday, November 5, 2008 by

Links for 2008-11-03 [del.icio.us]

IdentityBlog – Digital Identity, Privacy, and the Internet’s Missing Identity Layer The first of 3 great posts from Kim Cameron based on his presentation at PDC. This explains claims-based access and security token services

Posted on Tuesday, November 4, 2008 by

BPM-SaaS vendors – a growing list

I’m currently finalising my draft upcoming report on BPM and SaaS, which aims to help companies work out to what extent SaaS-based tools and offerings should have a place in their BPM strategies. As part of the research for the report I’ve been looking around for new companies focusing on the place where BPM and [...]

Posted on Monday, November 3, 2008 by