With much of the early development in the Business Process Management (BPM) market being driven by technology vendors selling products for one-off departmental projects to line-of-business heads, and with IT stakeholders often being brought in only after the deal is done, lately we’ve been wondering – now that there’s no doubt that BPM is becoming [...]
Posted on Thursday, April 9, 2009 by adminUncategorized
Yesterday I spent the evening at a dinner in London as a stand-in for my colleague Bola Rotibi, talking about Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and governing software delivery to a group of around 20 senior IT leaders. Due to my own disorganisation I’d not realised that this was a stand-up talk with no visuals or [...]
Posted on Friday, March 20, 2009 by adminUncategorized
Something that’s been sloshing gently around in my head for a little while came into focus the other day on reading a post by Brenda Michelson: Unintentional Cloud Watching >> Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architects. Namely, that the link between cloud computing and SOA has multiple angles. It’s becoming clearer that, true to Tim O’Reilly’s [...]
Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 by adminUncategorized
I’ve spent a couple of days wavering over whether to jump into an ongoing blogosphere debate over the “Death of SOA”. For those who haven’t yet read any of the debate online, here’s the catalyst: SOA is Dead; Long Live Services – a fictional obituary of SOA by Anne Thomas Manes of the Burton Group. [...]
Posted on Thursday, January 8, 2009 by adminUncategorized
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 adminI was on the way back to the office from a briefing with BPM vendor Pegasystems yesterday, where we’d had an interesting discussion about the relative roles that BPM and SOA can play in business transformation for customers. We agreed that BPM, done right, is as much of a discipline that organisations can use to [...]
Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2007 by adminUncategorized
I know in the blogosphere, waiting a few days to provide comment on an announcement like this one hardly puts me at the leading edge – but hey. Although I can’t claim to be breaking any news, there are a couple of other points about IBM’s purchase of Telelogic that I think are worth making. [...]
Posted on Friday, June 15, 2007 by adminUncategorized
During our “off air” preamble with Miko Matsumura prior to recording our podcast earlier this week, he mentioned that he likes MWD’s focus on “Big SOA”. I’d never thought of what we tell customers about SOA in this way before, but it’s true that we try and get people thinking about how SOA can help [...]
Posted on Thursday, April 26, 2007 by admin
