Earlier this week I attended an IBM press and analyst summit on the topic of “Business Event Processing”. To coincide with this, the company made some announcements on its “BEP leadership”, with over 3700 “BEP customers”. This is fairly early days in IBM’s attempts to tell a coherent story about what it’s doing in event [...]
Posted on Friday, September 12, 2008 by admin
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
As part of our BPM Continuous Advisory Service, we’re carrying out twice-yearly research studies which capture information about the state of maturity and practice of BPM in European businesses. We’ve finally finished analysing the results of our first study, and published the report. One of the most interesting things for me in processing all the [...]
Posted on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 by admin
Via Service Oriented Enterprise, I recently picked up an Infoworld blog post by SOA journeyman David Linthicum, where he makes a couple of very strange points about SOA and ESBs. It may be, of course, that the post is pure link bait: certainly, David appears to have said some relatively sane things in the past, [...]
Posted on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 by admin
The question of how to combine BPM and SOA came up a lot here at TIBCO’s TUCON user event – and, a little disappointingly, the standard response seems to typically revolve around reinventing the three-tier architecture of the 1990s, just with more scope and scale. I pointed out in the previous part of this post [...]
Posted on Friday, May 2, 2008 by admin
Over the years I’ve been helping to run MWD I’ve been to quite a few events, talked to many enterprise IT folks and talked to many tech vendors, too – and one of the topics that comes up most often is the relationship between BPM and SOA. There’s been a bit of a run on [...]
Posted on Friday, April 18, 2008 by admin
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 on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 by admin
In recent discussions with one customer, I ended up drawing a series of little pictures to try and summarise the five potential benefits that can come from pursuing SOA. It seemed to work for them, so I thought I’d reproduce it here and see what our readers think. In order to test the old adage [...]
Posted on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 by admin
This might sound like an odd title for a post, but I was prompted by this ZapThink ZapFlash, via the ever-watchful Todd Biske. The ZapThink note starts off talking about the challenges in SOA adoption that come from organisational issues – specifically, challenges that arise from situations where tactical decisions continue to trump strategic decisions. [...]
Posted on Wednesday, December 5, 2007 by admin
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 [...]
Posted on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 by admin
