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What if an integration project could lead to a 24 percent increase in the bids your company wins? Or if your company could reap a nice 27 percent increase on its marketing investments due to a techno... More >
At the beginning of this year, I shared 10 SOA tips from 2007 for success in 2008 . For those of you who missed it, tip number eight was, "Revamp your testing process." If you're not sure why, here'... More >
It seems a bit late for new year's resolutions. Given the economy, I'm guessing there's a good number of you who have already updated your 2008 resolution to read, "Grab your hat and hang on." ... More >
Service-oriented architecture - the architecture approach you adopt to simplify integration and get everyone on the same page of standards -- that very same architecture is now causing integration pr... More >
I've never used SAP, but the interface must be a major pain, because I've heard of at least two cases of vendors building a tool to let you interact with SAP data without actually launching SAP. &nbs... More >
Frank Kenney, a Gartner research director, and I were discussing Microsoft's recent ranking as a challenger in Gartner's Integrated SOA Governance Magic Quadrant . He explained that this was becau... More >
The big news this week -- so far -- is Microsoft's recent virtualization announcement . According to this article , Microsoft's vision is to provide for a virtual environment from the data center... More >
A recent study by IBM user group SHARE shows at least 50 percent of companies still use hand-coded scripts to move data from mainframes to other databases or platforms. The problem with this type o... More >
I don't give stock advice because, duh, I'm not Warren Buffett . In fact, my key financial qualifications are an ability to use Quicken and a monthly contribution to two savings funds. But if... More >
Nick Carr's at it again . In his most recent book, he predicts the disappearance of IT divisions and pronounces journalists extinct. If this annoys you, think about how I feel: Effectively, in... More >
There's been a USB 3.0 port sighting, according to Register Hardware , where a reporter noticed the ports when Asus demonstrated a new 15-inch laptop, the M50. The USB 3.0 standard will add f... More >
There are a number of technological factors driving data-integration projects within organizations right now. Service-oriented architecture, modernizing or replacing legacy systems , Master Data Man... More >
If you read about technology on a regular basis -- and if you're on this site, I'm guessing you do -- then you would probably say Web 3.0 will be all about semantic technology . Essentially, we're t... More >
Gartner's latest assessment of the SOA Governance market is out, because I noticed several press releases from vendors touting their position in the mythical Magic Quadrant. I'm not sure why i... More >
So, I guess the big news today is that BEA sold out, literally, and Oracle now has itself a big slice of SOA pie for a sweet $8.5 billion. As you know, BEA sells a BPM solution (BEA AquaLogic ... More >
Researchers have found a way to extend laptop battery time to 40 hours -- literally, a full, legal work week -- by using silicon nanowires for battery anodes, according to an article in Sci-Tech Tod... More >
If your company uses SaaS at all, you should probably know about Boomi On-Demand . You might be familiar with Boomi because of its Visual Integration Platform, a traditional integration platf... More >
There's an online debate right now over whether the economic climate might adversely affect SOA implementations. Brenda Michelson first raised the question last week at SOA Consortium Insight,... More >
A recent study by the Input Executive Forum, a trade organization representing federal contractors and agencies, contains warnings both for those building a service-oriented architecture and those cu... More >
One topic that has caught my eye is how service-oriented architecture is providing the foundation for some innovative experiments in the energy and utilities industries. The U.S. Department of... More >
Rick Sherman has a warning for those of you who think SOA will solve all your data integration problems alone: It won't. Sherman founded Athena IT Solutions, a data warehouse and business inte... More >
Here's a nifty news development: A North Carolina company says it has developed a way to use nanotechnology to cool computer chips. According to this AP article from Forbes , the company appl... More >
No doubt, you've read how Facebook was used to distribute spyware on as many as 1.7 million machines. Tell me you didn't see that one coming. Security experts in a recent CIO.com article ab... More >
Now here's a gutsy business plan for you: We dig a very big hole in the ground, spend three billion dollars to build a factory in it, which takes three years, to produce technology we haven't invente... More >
I see so much about how much SOA can do for organizations, I've become a bit obsessed with the question of when organizations should not use SOA. As I've written before , someone will occasionally t... More >
Gartner is considering dropping its Business Process Management Suite Magic Quadrant. No more "Who's who in BPMS." And possibly, in its place, the research firm is investigating whether it should shi... More >
Eclipse is developing an open source SOA framework, InfoWorld reports. Called Swordfish , it will be an SOA runtime platform that uses Service Component Architecture (SCA), Java Business Integrati... More >
Earlier this week, I posted about the Meraki Mini, a $49 device that the Sydney Morning Herald predicts will be one of 10 technologies to "change your life" in 2008. The Meraki Mini is bas... More >
When was the last time someone -- who wasn't a vendor -- told you a technology project would deliver a return on investment that exceeds your wildest expectations? I've seen promises that you ... More >
I should probably be telling you today about Wikipedia's plans to unveil Wikia Search -- a sort of collaborative search engine -- next week. Or maybe I should mention Intelligent Enterprise's too-inc... More >
As we move into the new year, I thought it'd be helpful to look back at some of the "SOA lessons learned" from 2007. So, I've sifted through past posts to find the top 10 SOA success tips from last y... More >
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