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 adminOracle today confirmed that it delivered a letter to the Board of Directors of BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) on October 9 in which Oracle proposes to acquire BEA for $17.00 per share in cash. The $17.00 per share offer is a 25% premium over yesterday’s closing price of $13.62. This acquisition has been long-discussed [...]
Posted on Friday, October 12, 2007 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 adminJust saw this great comment from Enterprise Architect blogger James McGovern. This site is incredibly useful. It was developed by MWD so you know it is of high quality. Thanks so much James – what an endorsement! If you want to get to grips with your competency levels in the context of SOA, and learn [...]
Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 by adminToday we’re delighted to announce that our SOA strategy planning tool, hosted at www.itstrategyplans.com/soa, is now live. This is a new thing for us and if you’re interested in SOA, we think you’ll find it useful.What we’ve launched is a comprehensive, interactive, and vendor-independent online tool that goes much further than IT vendors’ own online [...]
Posted on Thursday, July 12, 2007 by adminUncategorized
I have just returned from a couple of days in Orlando, where I attended a Microsoft Server and Tools Business analyst summit which coincided with the company’s TechEd conference. The RedMonkers James and Coté did a great job of live blogging the event (here, here, here, here, here and here) – and there was even [...]
Posted on Thursday, June 7, 2007 by adminThe ever-vigilant Redmond watcher Mary Jo Foley over at ZDNet reports that Microsoft’s Server and Tools unit (but not the P&L – Microsoft will still report server and tools financials), which is responsible for Microsoft Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center management products and Forefront security products, is now part of the Business [...]
Posted on Friday, May 18, 2007 by adminOver the past six months we’ve been busy working behind the scenes with a partner, JEMM Research, on a pretty nifty online SOA strategy planning tool. We’re getting near to the point of launch, and we’d really like to find some people out there who would be interested in participating in a two-week beta test [...]
Posted on Thursday, May 3, 2007 by adminUncategorized
At the end of last week a webMethods’ press release popped into my inbox highlighting a recent demonstration of interoperability between the company’s UDDI-based registry (acquired with Infravio), HP’s Systinet registry and one of Layer 7 Technologies’ SecureSpan XML appliances. In a nutshell, the three companies showed how policies attached to services in a UDDI [...]
Posted on Thursday, May 3, 2007 by adminWe’re nearing the end (for now – we have more planned, but not for a little while) of a series of SOA vendor interview podcasts with this one, which we conducted recently with Rob Myer of TIBCO. Rob works in Product Management at TIBCO with responsibility for SOA. We ask the usual four questions, and [...]
Posted on Wednesday, May 2, 2007 by admin
