Scott Kirkland, Vice President of Product Management at Global 360, explained the company’s new role-based view of business process management (BPM) to me back in April, but adding real code to the c... More >
BusinessWeek continues its string of misleading articles when it comes to IT and enterprise software. I posted about a wildly inaccurate user-generated post about SAP’s Software as a Service (SaaS) ... More >
Each week, I make a prioritized list of new enterprise-software issues I want to blog about. But almost every day during the week another news item intervenes, the push/pop stack goes to work, and it... More >
Why is Progress Software telling me that Progress is not Neon Enterprise Software ? Why is Progress Software telling me that I should read an IBM memo about Neon Enterprise Software ? It’s been 20 ... More >
As I do once a year, I caught up with Dave Rowe, SVP of Global Marketing and Alliances at Rimini Street . Dave and I meet periodically to reminisce about the time we played golf with Johnny Miller, ... More >
In a July 6 blog post, I said I was going to level set my research agenda to answer five questions. Those questions were (short version): What is middleware? What is an IT stack? What is t... More >
It took 20 years — which is typical in technology evolution — but the object-orientation program development approach can be said to have finally overtaken the one-off remote-procedure-call dominated... More >
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tech, the student newspaper, reported July 8 that “Microsoft Exchange Is MIT’s New Email System.” Obviously the techie writing that headline has a future w... More >
IT staffers and managers like to check annual lists of their enterprise software suppliers to see if their preferred vendors made it. And to see how the vendor ranks against the guy you didn’t recomm... More >
In a July 6 blog post, I said that it was time for me to put aside personal pet peeves and biases in my research and get back to first principles. Go figure. On July 6, a subject pops up that combine... More >
The summer solstice/Fourth of July timeframe is my New Years. I mean it’s the time when I buy into the concepts traditionally hyped around Jan. 1 in cultures influenced by the Roman Empire. But it's ... More >
Forrester gets credit, by my superficial reading of the news wires, for being first out of the blocks with revised 2009 information technology spending projections. Such revisions are typically rel... More >
I recently finished up some research on “Business Process Management (BPM) in the Cloud,” a synopsis of which appears on ebizQ at the adjacent link. As a result, my little Google alert keeps rainin... More >

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