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Which comes first: process or service? Part 2
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...
View ArticleIBM's identity management becomes user-centric: HP's identity management exit...
Courtesy of InternetNews on Tuesday I learned that IBM has added support for OpenID, Windows CardSpace and Eclipse's Higgins Identity Framework to its Tivoli Federated Identity Manager (FIM) offering....
View ArticleBusinesses Aren't Machines, and Enterprise Architecture Can't Make Them So
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,...
View ArticleCollaborative Mind Mapping
I don't usually blog about individual briefings from vendors, but I've just had a fascinating briefing from Mindjet, a company which has developed an interactive, collaborative mind mapping solution...
View ArticleCisco strengthens collaboration portfolio
Cisco today announced its acquisition (which is expected to close by the end of October) of email and calendaring startup, PostPath, for the princely sum of approximately $215 million. The PostPath...
View ArticleSoftware AG goes in an interesting direction for SOA governance
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...
View ArticleECM vendors collaborate on interoperability standard
Yesterday EMC, IBM, and Microsoft jointly announced Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) - a new specification designed to enable interoperability between content management...
View ArticleHmm indeed Mr McKendrick - that should be "an over-simplistic definition of...
Joe McKendrick over at ZDNet has been pondering CIO "SOA Advisor" Nicholas Petreley's definition of SOA: a networked subroutine No wonder Joe's not sure about it! Nicholas' definition is closer to that...
View ArticleSOA governance and data governance - separate or one in the same?
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 -...
View ArticleNotes from a BPM conference
A few weeks ago I spent a couple of days in London, at IRM's 2008 Business Process Management Conference Europe, where I took in most of the sessions and also ran a session myself. I've been meaning to...
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Cloud computing, SaaS and SOA - the universal service network
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...
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Why we need ALM: industry's dangerous flirtation with software quality
Yesterday I spent the evening at a dinner in London as a stand-in for my colleague Bola Rotibi, talking about Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and governing software delivery to a group of around...
View ArticleProgress Software - getting past "Who"?
A couple of months back I had a brief Twitter exchange with David Bressler of Progress Software (@djbressler), following a comment I'd seen from Judith Hurwitz (@jhurwitz) at Progress' analyst day...
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The seven elements of Cloud Computing's value
Back in June 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...
View ArticleThe need for MDM and the role of architecture
The other day I read a post from David Norfolk ("The MDM tarpit") which generated some lively comment. You can read the post yourself, but to briefly summarise, David highlighted a view that Master...
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