In 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 by Neil Ward-Dutton on January 21, 2010
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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 a [...]
Posted by admin on October 31, 2009
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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 walk [...]
Posted by admin on March 20, 2009
A 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 headline [...]
Posted by admin on February 19, 2009
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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 by admin on November 14, 2008
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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If data governance is inadequate — information is outdated, out of sync, duplicated, or plain inaccurate — SOA-enabled services and applications will be delivering garbarge.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.
He goes [...]
Posted by admin on September 24, 2008
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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 by admin on September 9, 2008
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I was chatting to a friend who’s a top-notch Java developer over the weekend: we were shooting the breeze about Groovy, Rails, Spring, Hibernate and various other Things That Get People Excited (let’s call them TTGPEs), and discussing how far they were likely to penetrate into your average IT shop. “Why do so many people [...]
Posted by admin on February 19, 2008
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HP yesterday announced long-awaited (at least as far as we are concerned) enhancements to its SOA software and services, which see the company beginning to realise the potential of its acquisition of Systinet (via Mercury) when it comes to SOA governance. Back in March, the other Neil highlighted that lifecycle management is one of the [...]
Posted by admin on January 29, 2008
I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen throwaway comments exhorting companies to “create a centre of excellence (CoE” (mostly, for initiatives like SOA or BPM). Vendor / pundit / analyst / journalist: “Having trouble? Establish a centre of excellence!” Customer: “Oh, that’s OK then, I’ll do that.”
But let’s take a deeper look. [...]
Posted by admin on November 21, 2007
