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July 30, 2009

Role-based Business Process Management: A Good Way to Think of BPM

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 >

July 28, 2009

Is BusinessWeek out to Get the Enterprise Software Business?

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 >

July 25, 2009

Enterprise Software News on the Cutting Room Floor

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 >

July 22, 2009

Marketing 101: Why Progress Software Pointed Me to Neon Enterprise Software

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 >

July 20, 2009

Enterprise Software Maintenance Provider Rimini Street Takes High-Speed Lane

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 >

July 17, 2009

Enterprise Software First Principles: What Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP Will Do Next Decade?

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 >

July 15, 2009

The All New Oracle Fusion SOA Suite: To the RPC, Oracle Says RIP

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 >

July 11, 2009

Microsoft Exchange Knocks Out Gmail, Open Source at 'Birthplace' of Open Source

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 >

July 10, 2009

AMR's 2009 'Top 50' List Misses Many Leading Enterprise Software Companies

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 >

July 8, 2009

Enterprise Software Standards Are Open As Long As the Market Is

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 >

July 6, 2009

How Many Software Developers Does It Take to Screw in a Light Bulb?

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 >

July 2, 2009

2009 IT, Enterprise Software Spending to Trend Down More Outside U.S. Than In

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 >

July 1, 2009

Cloud Computing Blogosphere Takes Enterprise Software out of Context

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 >