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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 Enterp... More >
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... More >
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... More >
Software Forum: Information On Demand Virtual ExperienceThis interactive virtual forum presents leading IT experts providing the insights you need to turn your information into a strategic driver for innovation, business optimization and competitive differentiation.
Performance Under Pressure: The State of Enterprise Web Application Quality and AvailabilityThis research study finds that Web application issues are an all-too-common problem and examines these Web-based enterprise application issues from two perspectives: that of an online customer and that of a site manager.
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 ... More >
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 Cordy... More >
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-me... More >
I recently caught up with Alex Neihaus, VP of marketing at Active Endpoints, and Active Endpoints' CTO Michael Rowley to hear about the recently announced ActiveVOS 7.0 business process management (... More >
On the traditional opening day of the U.S. Supreme Court, the first Monday in October, a legal-related IT posting seems appropriate. But take this opinion for what it's worth: The sum total of... More >
There were two highly visible blog posts during the week of September 28 on the cost of IT failures to the geo-economy. But just as all politics is local, even in geopolitics (see President Obama's w... More >
With the 2007-2009 buzz about cloud computing, desktop and other types of virtualization, and appliances, it was only a matter of time before the market would go full circle. A press release crossed... More >
It’s fitting that the acrimony ends with a whimper rather than a bang. The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) released POI 3.5 on September 29. According to the POI team’s e-mail (ASF rarely puts out p... More >
Chirag Mehta is a "Technology, Design, and Innovation strategist" in the Office of the CEO at SAP, “focusing on technology and architecture strategy and strategic operational, product, and management... More >
Continuing to catch up on summertime news, I talked this week with Matt Calkins, CEO of business process management (BPM) software and services supplier Appian. Appian had announced a great first ha... More >
To keep up with the changing tides of the open source software movement, there is no better read than the Open Source Initiative (OSI) license-discuss and license-review lists . You’ll find commenta... More >
Just coincidentally I'm sure, the morning after the U.S. TV show awards event known as the Emmys, the BusinessWire lit up with a couple of dozen companies claiming awards of their own. If you follow ... More >
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