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Anne Thomas Manes received a lot of attention last week after sharing that many of her Burton Group client companies are abandoning their SOA efforts . This week, Burton Group issued a press ... More >
We're now nearly six months out from Microsoft's "unveiling" of Oslo -- the company's code name for its SOA strategy - and still, nobody really knows what it is. It's not as if we haven't tr... More >
It'd be lovely to think that master data management is a technology problem. But when you get down to it, the real challenge isn't the technology; it's resolving petty control issues, both within IT ... More >
This week, Stoneware announced it plans to integrate Google Apps into release 5.3 of its webOS. Organizations would be able to give remote and mobile users "seamless access to their Google applicat... More >
When you write about integration every weekday, it's easy to focus on what's new and different and forget the basics. But as Fernando Labastida pointed out on his blog , there are a lot of integra... More >
InfoWorld ran an interesting product profile this week on ZoHo. Apparently, the company plans to move beyond your mere "best of breed" SaaS offering. Instead, it'll offer a desktop productivity su... More >
I would feel sorry for IT's favorite punching bag, Nicholas Carr , if he weren't so pompous and occasionally clueless. Let's face it: Those are great qualifications for a punching bag. Of c... More >
Call me a cynic, but I've just about had it up to here with SOA. At first, I thought it made perfect sense. The definition seemed simple : You write the code for a process once, package it, l... More >
I just happened to receive notice today in my inbox of a Webinar on master data management (MDM) and SOA. Normally, I save these announcements for Friday's integration news round-up, but the event is... More >
Last week, I wrote about Anne Thomas Manes' claim that SOA is failing at many of the companies with which she's engaged as a Burton Group consultant. You may have missed this, since I put it at t... More >
If you think of Business Objects primarily as a BI and data warehousing company, it might be time to take a second look, according to Philip Howard, a research director with Bloor Research. Howard tr... More >
Recently, a colleague asked me about service-oriented architecture for an IT Business Edge special report, " SOA: What Is it? " I don't claim to be an expert, but I've been writing about SOA for near... More >
Who's in charge of SOA? You might think it would be the enterprise architect, but, according to David Linthicum, well-known SOA authority and managing partner at ZapThink, that's not what's happening... More >
How would you like to shave $250,000 of unnecessary cost off your IT budget this year? That's how much Gartner estimates companies could save by consolidating or replacing data integration too... More >
Microsoft is always fun to watch. It's a huge force, often to the point of being ungraceful. But wherever it stomps, it's generally a matter of time before it's dominant or darn near it. Excep... More >
Analysts are always saying you need to choose the right technology for the business needs. They say this as if the right technology becomes as plain as the nose on your face, if only you'd first cons... More >
I feel sorry for developers today. They've got a tough job ahead of them, what with service-oriented architecture, Web 2.0 technology, the demands for various types of integration and, very soon, mu... More >
In the abstract, SOA is fairly simple to understand. In fact, I recently stumbled across an easy-to-follow definition on a blog written by Luciano Resende , a senior software engineer at IBM -- thou... More >
If you've been following service-oriented architecture for any amount of time, you know that data integration is a problem . How do you apply SOA to data technologies? Finally -- we have an a... More >
Are you comfortable with your understanding of SOA and its role in integration? You are. Great! Ronald Schmelzer of ZapThink says you're wrong. OK -- that's not completely fair. He didn't say you, pe... More >
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