:: Mergers and Integrations ::

My editor brought an article to my attention yesterday that contained some startling news. “Popularity of IT integration and service oriented architecture waning,” warned the headline.
Now, I expected that SOA would be taking a popularity hit – that’s hardly news, although I think the slump is just a backlash against the hype. SOA will survive.
But […]

If you’ve got a few minutes, why not help out a group of MBS (master of business systems) students? I was recently contacted by an MBS group at the University College Cork in Ireland about their online survey about SOA. The group wants to know how SOA is affecting IT capabilities and business functions. Since […]

For years, my cousin, Scottie, would visit from Albuquerque, New Mexico, every summer. She announced, one summer, that she now went by “Margaret,” her first name. Margaret turned into Maggie, then Mags, then Maggie again, who offered dispensation to us at the ripe age of 25. We were allowed to use Scottie again, which was a relief, […]

Over the past year, IBM, SAP, Oracle and, to some extent, Microsoft made quite a few headlines with their data-integration and BI acquisitions and the resulting new offerings.
In the midst of this, some questioned whether old-school ETL data-integration player, Informatica, could stand up to the competition.
Meanwhile, Informatica kept plugging away, making a few acquisitions, offering […]

IBM had two major announcements this week, but it’s a bit tricky to tell exactly what’s new, since the release is two parts product updates and one part rename.
Personally, I hate it when vendors do this, because it feels a bit like a shell game: Is there really anything new under the shell of the […]