I’ve been closely focused on exploring the discipline of BPM and associated tools, technologies and practices for quite a few years now. For ages, though, I’ll be honest – I struggled to crisply explain what BPM is. I can see that this might be a dangerous admission to make, but bear with me.
It’s easy to [...]
Posted by Neil Ward-Dutton on November 27, 2009
Enterprise Architecture in Higher Education » Building an EA Practice – what is your process?
Great post (and commentary from others) looking at how to build an EA practice.
(tags: ea process governance alignment)
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Last week at its annual user and developer conference, the Dreamforce Global Gathering, Saleforce.com announced the newest addition to its cloud-based portfolio, Chatter. As a bold first move into the enterprise collaboration software market, Chatter is a microblogging environment, similar to Twitter, which is built into the Force.com platform to “socialise” the applications and content [...]
Posted by Angela Ashenden on November 26, 2009
Last week I took part in a web seminar hosted by the UK’s Computing magazine on the topic of “IT for the agile organisation”. I kicked the event off by talking for a few minutes about the challenges facing IT in industry, and outlining the multiple ways that a couple of business-IT change tools – [...]
Posted by Neil Ward-Dutton on November 23, 2009
Sinofsky's Windows plan: More data, less testosterone | Beyond Binary – CNET News
Has Steve Sinofsky saved Microsoft? It's amazing to see the shift in how Win7 was delivered vs. Vista.
(tags: microsoft windows_7 process_improvement)
Posted by admin on November 22, 2009
When MWD started in 2005, the first topic we sunk our teeth into was SOA (it was 2005’s Cloud Computing, pretty much).We researched the technology and the practice pretty thoroughly, I think (along the way tackling “SOA 2.0” among other things), but in mid-2007 we drifted away from the topic a little. At the time [...]
Posted by Neil Ward-Dutton on November 19, 2009
At its Collaboration Summit last week, Cisco reinforced the message that it sees big business in the collaboration market with a flurry of new product and services announcements. Perhaps the most significant from a collaboration perspective is its entry into the SaaS-based email market, with the launch of Cisco WebEx Mail. The service, which is [...]
Posted by Angela Ashenden on November 17, 2009
SOA Today: SOA Manifesto Value Statement Critique
More good constructive criticism of the SOA manifesto
(tags: soa manifesto)
Comments on the SOA Manifesto – Stefan Tilkov's Random Stuff
Good insider commentary on the manifesto, point-by-point
(tags: soa manifesto)
Posted by admin on November 13, 2009
Our whip-smart Principal Collaboration Analyst, Angela Ashenden, has published some great blog entries recently. Over on her Collaboration blog, she hammers out why Adobe is in danger of missing a significant opportunity. Here’s a great quote:
Adobe seems to struggle with how to address the collaboration market opportunity. Little real progress has been made since it [...]
Posted by admin on November 12, 2009
Huddle gets itself put onto 25m HP business PCs
A great opportunity for UK-based Huddle, which is rapidly raising its profile in a market dominated by US-based start-ups and giants alike.
(tags: HP Huddle collaboration)
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