Element8 Software is a technology startup that offers a software platform called xpoint which helps customers deliver business change projects and programmes. This On the Radar briefing note follows a simple “ten questions” format, which we designed to provide a concise but thorough overview of a company and its products and services. We use this [...]
Posted on Monday, January 23, 2012 by adminOver the past couple of years we’ve all heard more and more talk about the potential for IT to transform business and drive innovation and profitability – and hand-in-hand with this, the potential for CIOs to be seen as in charge of IT groups that are true ‘strategic business enablers’ rather than simple cost centres. [...]
Posted on Friday, September 9, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonYesterday at IBM’s IMPACT conference in Vegas, the company announced the release of Business Process Manager 7.5. At first glance, Business Process Manager might look like a simple updating and blending of two overlapping toolsets (the former WebSphere Process Server/Integration Developer combo, and the former WebSphere Lombardi Edition platform). Indeed other commentators have pointed to [...]
Posted on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonIn the past couple of days I’ve read a couple of articles (“IT can’t be a service provider and a partner too” and “Run IT as a business – why that’s a train wreck waiting to happen“) that riff on the same theme: that the exhortation to “run IT as a business” leads you down [...]
Posted on Thursday, January 21, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonUncategorized
The other day I got a business update from Sonoa Systems, sparked by the arrival at the company by Sam Ramji – former Senior Director of Platform Strategy at Microsoft. Sam is now the VP of Strategy at Sonoa. As you can see in our report on Sonoa, the company is making significant inroads in [...]
Posted on Saturday, October 31, 2009 by adminUncategorized
The “G” word is one of those words that’s bandied about with increasing abandon these days – but for many, “governance” is just a more sexy way of saying “management” (in the same way that “architecture” is quite often used as a sexy way of saying “design”). So how much are organisations really walking the [...]
Posted on Friday, March 20, 2009 by adminA few days ago the results of our second CIO UK poll were published in this piece – CIO Debate: Collaboration is building momentum in 2009. The poll corroborated earlier research that we carried out for our Collaboration advisory service in the summer of last year, in conjunction with the guys at Freeform Dynamics. The [...]
Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2009 by adminUncategorized
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 adminUncategorized
Joe McKendrick (once again!) has another post which caught my blogreader today. This time he is pondering the relationship between SOA and data governance: If data governance is inadequate — information is outdated, out of sync, duplicated, or plain inaccurate — SOA-enabled services and applications will be delivering garbarge. That’s a formula for SOA disaster. [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 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 admin
