http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron * Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:38:35 GMT Clearspace 2.5.5 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2009-11-05T20:38:35Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/ingres-ceos-advice-about-enterprise-software-makes-no-sense/?cs=37285 I've been waiting with bated breath for a week for the second installment of Ingres CEO Roger Burkhardt's advice on how to keep from getting duped by the leading enterprise software suppliers. I hope Fortune gets some of Ingres’ ad money after it let enterprise_software saas open_source enterprise_software_vendors business_technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:56:25 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/ingres-ceos-advice-about-enterprise-software-makes-no-sense/?cs=37285 2009-11-06T10:56:25Z 2 days, 3 minutes ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/comment/ingres-ceos-advice-about-enterprise-software-makes-no-sense http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/feeds/comments?blogPost=37285 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/why-cloud-vs-premise-is-premise-the-wrong-word/?cs=37077 Here is an interesting blog post by Webex/Cisco's director of product strategy, David Knight, asking the question " Why Cloud vs Premise ?" that might be helpful as you plan your 2010 IT budget and projects. I agree with his conclusion that the ondemand enterprise_software business_technology saas cloud_computing Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:58:20 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/why-cloud-vs-premise-is-premise-the-wrong-word/?cs=37077 2009-11-04T12:58:20Z 1 week, 2 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/comment/why-cloud-vs-premise-is-premise-the-wrong-word http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/feeds/comments?blogPost=37077 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/googled-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/?cs=37148 OK, kids and grandkids, the name of the book I want for Christmas is in the headline above. The book sounds like it might be this decade's "The Soul of a New Machine," the Pulitzer prize-winning 1981 book that was a must read for every IT person and google microsoft it_market_analysts business_technology Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:42:28 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/googled-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/?cs=37148 2009-11-02T12:42:28Z 5 days, 8 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/comment/googled-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/feeds/comments?blogPost=37148 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/update-for-drupal-enterprise-software-in-white-house-it-s-one-step-forward-one-step-back/?cs=37070 As I promised in an Oct. 26 blog post , I am trying to get more background on the Associated Press (AP) story dated Oct. 24 that whitehouse.gov has changed its underlying content management software (CMS) to a product called Drupal. The story has enterprise_content_management drupal whitehouse.gov content_management_system open_source cms ecm microsoft enterprise_software sharepoint business_technology Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:54:37 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/update-for-drupal-enterprise-software-in-white-house-it-s-one-step-forward-one-step-back/?cs=37070 2009-10-29T16:54:37Z 1 week, 3 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/comment/update-for-drupal-enterprise-software-in-white-house-it-s-one-step-forward-one-step-back http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/feeds/comments?blogPost=37070 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/who-will-be-the-worlds-largest-enterprise-software-company-now/?cs=36936 I know you all know enough to ignore the PR boilerplate claim that comes at the end of every press release and often gets picked up by rookie journalists or lazy bloggers that don’t know any better. The one I’ve always found most extraordinary just got business_technology microsoft it_market_analysts oracle enterprise_software enterprise_software_vendors ibm Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:25:47 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/who-will-be-the-worlds-largest-enterprise-software-company-now/?cs=36936 2009-10-29T14:25:47Z 2 weeks, 1 day ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/comment/who-will-be-the-worlds-largest-enterprise-software-company-now http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/feeds/comments?blogPost=36936 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/getting-excited-again-about-enterprise-portals/?cs=37055 It has been 10 years since IDC analysts Ed Acly, Steve Garone, Brian McDonough, Henry Morris, Jacque Sweeney and I reviewed then-current enterprise software market dynamics holistically [from the perspectives of middleware infrastructure, integration enterprise_software knowledge_management silobreaker news_aggregation content_management_system business_technology search_engine portals integration_servers Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:40:37 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/getting-excited-again-about-enterprise-portals/?cs=37055 2009-10-28T15:40:37Z 1 week, 3 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/comment/getting-excited-again-about-enterprise-portals http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/feeds/comments?blogPost=37055 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/did-ap-mangle-story-of-whitehousegov-overhaul/?cs=36969 There’s a strange Associated Press story floating as of Saturday, Oct. 24 about the White House Web site, and how it has been redeveloped from an information technology point of view. The story says something like ( depending on how it is picked up in drupal content_management_system cms government_agencies open_source_enterprise_software business_technology Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:39:04 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/did-ap-mangle-story-of-whitehousegov-overhaul/?cs=36969 2009-10-26T15:39:04Z 1 week, 6 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/comment/did-ap-mangle-story-of-whitehousegov-overhaul http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/feeds/comments?blogPost=36969 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/talking-with-pierre-fricke-of-red-hat-about-bpm-and-the-stack/?cs=36694 Pierre Fricke is Red Hat’s director of product line management for SOA products, and therefore—by extension—the guy leading the infrastructure enterprise software company into business process management (BPM). Red Hat, with its JBoss middleware group, business_process_management red_hat bpel enterprise_software jboss business_technology open_source_software Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:41:14 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/talking-with-pierre-fricke-of-red-hat-about-bpm-and-the-stack/?cs=36694 2009-10-23T11:41:14Z 3 weeks, 2 days ago 2 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/comment/talking-with-pierre-fricke-of-red-hat-about-bpm-and-the-stack http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/feeds/comments?blogPost=36694 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/zl-technologies-fails-to-get-enterprise-software-seal-of-approval/?cs=36856 I bought my wife a subscription to Good Housekeeping for Christmas last year. This was not a comment on her housekeeping skills, which are massive. She asked me to give her the magazine for Christmas.   I am telling you this because into my inbox enterprise_software_vendors it_market_analysts gartner zl_technologies business_technology Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:38:22 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/zl-technologies-fails-to-get-enterprise-software-seal-of-approval/?cs=36856 2009-10-20T19:38:22Z 2 weeks, 4 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/comment/zl-technologies-fails-to-get-enterprise-software-seal-of-approval http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/feeds/comments?blogPost=36856 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/cant-wait-for-google-wave-consider-lotus-notes/?cs=36693 Back on June 3, I protested the fact that so many bloggers were putting Google Wave on some pedestal of previously unheard-of innovation unlike that provided in enterprise software (see Is an Enterprise Software Wave about to Wash Over You? ). Of google ibm outlook collaboration_software lotus_notes enterprise_software microsoft business_technology google_wave Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:26:14 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/cant-wait-for-google-wave-consider-lotus-notes/?cs=36693 2009-10-19T20:26:14Z 3 weeks, 2 days ago 2 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/comment/cant-wait-for-google-wave-consider-lotus-notes http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/feeds/comments?blogPost=36693 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/how-cordys-bpm-2009-stacks-up-against-its-2008-bpm-plans/?cs=36629 I last interviewed Jan Baan, founder and CEO of the business process management (BPM) software provider, and an early ERP-era hall of famer , in June 2008. In early October 2009, I caught up with Jan again to see how he was doing against the key plans business_process_management baan jan_baan mdm master_data_management bpm mashups cordys saas erp_systems business_technology cloud_computing paas Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:05:13 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/how-cordys-bpm-2009-stacks-up-against-its-2008-bpm-plans/?cs=36629 2009-10-16T19:05:13Z 3 weeks, 4 days ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/comment/how-cordys-bpm-2009-stacks-up-against-its-2008-bpm-plans http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/feeds/comments?blogPost=36629 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/wheres-the-business-in-enterprise-software-apis/?cs=36528 The next time you hear the voiceover on an Apple iPhone ad say, “There’s an app for that,” remember that there are also two, three, or more application programming interfaces (APIs) for each of those highly advertised 70,000-plus individual iPhone apps. sam_ramji sonoa application_programming_interface application_development cloud_computing business_technology web_applications apis saas Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:59:05 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/wheres-the-business-in-enterprise-software-apis/?cs=36528 2009-10-15T12:59:05Z 4 weeks, 1 day ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/comment/wheres-the-business-in-enterprise-software-apis http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/feeds/comments?blogPost=36528 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/update-youre-not-wasting-6-trillion-a-year-on-it-just-500-billion/?cs=36361 Roger Sessions began a useful process Sept. 28 at his blog on the subject of IT project failures . On Oct. 2, I commented on his post (see Taking the Trillion-Dollar Figures out of the Costs of IT Failure ) and Roger in turn commented as follows: cost_containment project_management business_technology roi enterprise_software executive_suite Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:54:16 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/update-youre-not-wasting-6-trillion-a-year-on-it-just-500-billion/?cs=36361 2009-10-13T12:54:16Z 1 month, 3 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/comment/update-youre-not-wasting-6-trillion-a-year-on-it-just-500-billion http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/feeds/comments?blogPost=36361 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/from-the-erp-hall-of-fame-where-are-they-now/?cs=36567 I had a great conversation last week with Jan Baan over the phone from my base on Cape Cod. It was about the then-just concluded annual user group meeting of Baan’s latest venture, Cordys. The Cordys meeting, called Cloudburst , was held Oct. 6-8 in microsoft oracle sap baan erp_systems erp cordys bpm business_technology enterprise_software_vendors y2k business_process_management Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:30:09 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/from-the-erp-hall-of-fame-where-are-they-now/?cs=36567 2009-10-12T12:30:09Z 4 weeks, 5 hours ago 2 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/comment/from-the-erp-hall-of-fame-where-are-they-now http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/feeds/comments?blogPost=36567 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/whats-not-in-the-microsoft-eu-deal-on-enterprise-software-interoperability/?cs=36489 In the latest chapter of the decade-old bureaucratic battle between the European Union (EU) and Microsoft, the October 7 Microsoft “browser ballot proposal,” is getting all the IT- and mainstream-media buzz . Apparently it has been agreed to by the microsoft office application_integration business_technology european_union europe eu interoperability legislation_and_regulation kroes productivity_software Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:13:52 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/whats-not-in-the-microsoft-eu-deal-on-enterprise-software-interoperability/?cs=36489 2009-10-08T12:13:52Z 1 month, 8 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/comment/whats-not-in-the-microsoft-eu-deal-on-enterprise-software-interoperability http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/byron/feeds/comments?blogPost=36489