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Signposts

August-September 2008

Signposts

Where did the summer go? Autumn is the season when you begin to reap what you sow and it's going to be the same here at MWD. We have recently published the results of the first of our primary research studies looking at BPM perceptions and practice in Europe as part of our Continuous Advisory Service (which you can learn more about here) and we have another to come soon in our Collaboration service (see here for more details).

We also have a new podcast series in production featuring discussions on software development and delivery. If you have some insights you would like to share with a broader audience then do let Bola Rotibi, our lead software delivery analyst, know.

All in all, we're expecting the next few months to be pretty exciting so watch this space!

Best regards

Neil Ward-Dutton	Neil Macehiter
Research Director	Research Director

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Exposure
Food for thought

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Published reports

We did not publish any new reports this month.

From the MWD blog

Here's a selection of our blog posts from August:

Cisco strengthens collaboration portfolio – Analysis of Cisco's acquisition of email/calendaring provider PostPath
The dilemma of "good enough" in software quality – Thoughts on software quality and what makes it "good enough"

Exposure

Below is an overview of the stories that our commentary has appeared in over the past month. We don’t yet have full coverage of the places where our stories appear in the print media, but this should give you an idea of the kinds of topics we’re actively involved in researching.

Microsoft alters virtualization license terms – Bola provided her thoughts on recent virtualisation-friendly changes to Microsoft's licensing and support terms for this SDTimes story
ALM Rules of Engagement – Bola's insights on what makes for effective application lifecycle management featured in this Redmond Developer News article
Popularity of IT integration and service oriented architecture waning – Bola commented on the business value of integration and SOA for this Computer Weekly feature
Microsoft steps up virtualisation campaign – More on Microsoft's licensing changes, this time from Neil (M) for Computer Weekly
Business analyst role key in SOA software development projects – Neil (W-D) discussed the role of the business analyst in SOA initiatives for this SearchSOA feature
Business-side often drives BPM initiatives today – Neil (W-D) provided his thoughts on the reality of BPM initiatives for this SearchSOA article
Curl completes embrace of Eclipse IDE – Bola comments on rich internet applications and Eclipse for this Network World story

Food for thought

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