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In last week’s post on the seven elements of Cloud computing’s value, I said that the simple model I put forward looked like being a nice way to compare different Cloud approaches and offerings and see what’s really being offered. There’s a lot of people jumping on this particular bandwagon, and a lot of the [...]
Posted on Friday, July 3, 2009 by adminUncategorized
Last week I was invited to speak as part of the London leg of TIBCO’s NOW roadshow, which focused primarily on Cloud computing and TIBCO’s new Silver offering (you can see what we think about that specifically in this report). My job was to talk about “articulating the value of Cloud computing”. This was a [...]
Posted on Thursday, June 25, 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
This is the third 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 opportunities and challenges associated with using cloud-based software development services. Bola’s guest is Debbie Ashton, Product Director for CODA – a provider of [...]
Posted on Friday, January 30, 2009 by adminOne year on from the launch of IBM Lotus’s first home-grown effort in the world of software-as-a-service, codenamed project “Bluehouse”, SaaS is again top of the news agenda at Lotusphere 2009, and shows up as an underlying theme across the event’s big stories. The main headline was the launch of LotusLive, a new brand for [...]
Posted on Friday, January 23, 2009 by adminUncategorized
Hot on the heels of last week’s acquisition of Credentica by Microsoft, Ping Identity (who I covered here in an On The Radar report) announced yesterday that it has acquired the Sxip Access business unit from Sxip Identity. Sxip was early to spot the potential opportunity in providing organisations with a simple, easy-to-deploy single sign-on [...]
Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 by adminUncategorized
I thought that those of you who aren’t recipients of our monthly newsletter might be interested in this commentary (penned by the other Neil) dissecting some of the problems with the definition (or lack thereof) of software-as-a-service. Over the past few days we’ve been having an interesting debate here at MWD, in conjunction with the [...]
Posted on Wednesday, October 3, 2007 by adminIn my previous post I explained how in order to get real value out of Enterprise Architecture (EA) work, it’s critical to focus not only on the outputs of EA work, but also on the process/practice of EA – and moreover that the process/practice has to focus on *conversations*. What does this mean for tools, [...]
Posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2007 by adminBack at the beginning of March I asked “has Microsoft got BPM?“. At that time I hadn’t had the opportunity to get a briefing from Microsoft on its recent BPM moves, but now I have. So – has Microsoft got BPM? Yes and no. Microsoft is not about to become a fully-fledged BPM solution provider. [...]
Posted on Thursday, April 26, 2007 by admin
