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links for 2009-05-29

Acrobat.com release "PowerPoint for the web" | iGeneration | ZDNet.com (tags: adobe acrobat.com collaboration)

Posted on Friday, May 29, 2009 by

Links for 2009-05-27 [del.icio.us]

Application Platform Strategies Blog: SOA: It’s Dead, Jim! Oh no it isn't… oh yes it is… sheesh Service Architecture – SOA: Hypocrites are alive Jim I was waiting for this contribution from Steve! Go Steve. Really interesting comment from Peter Evans-Greenwood also – many practitioners push Big Projects because they look good on resumes. What [...]

Posted on Friday, May 29, 2009 by

Links for 2009-05-20 [del.icio.us]

Webinar: Beyond Model-Driven Development: Delivering on the Promise of BPM « BPM service news From our BPM blog: details of Neil WD on IT Toolbox BPM webinar. What do you need to scale BPM efforts beyond the first couple of projects? Collaboration service news » Blog Archive » Unravelling the social software hype From our [...]

Posted on Friday, May 22, 2009 by

Unravelling the social software hype

As I trailed last month, we have just published two new reports in the MWD Collaboration Continuous Advisory service. Social Software for the Enterprise examines the value of this much-hyped new area of technology in the context of enterprise collaboration, looking at the business benefits that it offers both inside and outside the organisation, and [...]

Posted on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 by

Webinar: Beyond Model-Driven Development: Delivering on the Promise of BPM

Later today over at IT Toolbox, I’ll be one of the presenters of Beyond Model-Driven Development: Delivering on the Promise of BPM. This is a Lombardi event, timed to coincide with the launch of Teamworks 7. I’ll be doing the up-front presentation, and I’ll be talking about the business value and promise of BPM – [...]

Posted on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 by

Pegasystems leads the charge in BPM market growth

We all know that times are tough – but despite that, I’ve not seen any drop-off in interest in BPM initiatives or technologies over the past year. Anecdotally, many of the vendors I talk to have said the same thing – BPM business remains strong. Logically, BPM technology is a strange beast – it’s both [...]

Posted on Friday, May 8, 2009 by

Micro Focus gobbles Borland, Compuware assets

Earlier this week, UK-based application modernisation technology vendor Micro Focus announced that it’s purchasing Borland, as well as the testing and quality management software assets of Compuware. Bola Rotibi, our Software Delivery Principal Analyst, has a great piece on this over on our new Software Delivery blog. Please check it out – Borland acquisition: it [...]

Posted on Friday, May 8, 2009 by

Links for 2009-05-05 [del.icio.us]

Corporate Tweets and the SEC: Sometimes It’s Better To Keep Your Mouth Shut TechCrunch article on the potential risks of the use of social media by corporates.

Posted on Thursday, May 7, 2009 by

Software Delivery InFocus podcast – the challenge of software quality

This is the fourth in our Software Delivery InFocus series of podcast episodes, starring Bola Rotibi – the Principal Analyst of MWD’s Software Delivery competency area. In this episode, she discusses the thorny issue of software quality. This is something the IT industry has talked about for decades – so why is it still so [...]

Posted on Wednesday, May 6, 2009 by

New collaboration reports – Adobe and Huddle

While my blogging about this is somewhat delayed, I am pleased to advise you that we have added two new reports to the collection of collaboration vendors covered in our Guest Pass research: a vendor capability assessment of Adobe’s collaboration software portfolio, and an On The Radar on UK-based team collaboration vendor Huddle. Both vendors [...]

Posted on Wednesday, May 6, 2009 by