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Integration and speedy deployment are the key factors companies consider when selecting a SaaS provider, according to a study released this week by McKinsey & Company . McKinsey, in colla... More >
Sometimes, I think technologists get caught up in defining terms that, really, are just synonyms for other terms. Of course, this is just a guess on my part, since half the time, no one really knows ... More >
Remember a while back when it seemed the experts couldn't agree on a definition of a service -- that basic building block for Service-Oriented Architecture? David Linthicum, SOA guru and now... More >
In March, I interviewed Alex Krapf , president of CodeMesh, about his company's unique solution to the problem of porting applications from Java into the .NET world. Basically, it translates code f... More >
How much of your internal IT would you be willing to outsource to cloud computing? How about half? Would half be too much? Douglas Menefee, the CIO of a Louisiana-based, privately held emergency medi... More >
I won't be surprised if all the vendor marketing materials touting "SOA-enabled" technologies is soon be replaced with pamphlets and whitepapers touting "WOA" capabilities. WOA stands for web-... More >
Web 2.0 is here, and how. According to this eWEEK article , a just-released Forrester report predicts Web 2.0 spending will grow to a hot global $4.6 billion within five years. The art... More >
John Schmidt, the vice president of Global Integration Services at Informatica Corp., thinks he knows the silver bullet for fixing IT . According to Schmidt, something is wrong with IT -- ver... More >
Looking for integration products? You might try checking two recently released lists for recommendations. SearchSOA.com just announced the winners of its 2007 SOA Products of the Year , whic... More >
Did you notice Monday's news about the partnership between Salesforce.com and Google ? It was pretty hard to miss, since the tech trade press -- as well as some mainstream organizations -- jumped a... More >
One of the promises of master data management and other data integration projects is that you can obtain a "single view" of whatever it is you're looking at, whether it's a customer, a product or sal... More >
Integration competency centers are not new. According to this blog post by analyst firm OnStrategies, ICCs trace back to at least 2002, originating with Gartner. Then, in 2005, Integration Consorti... More >
Two recent articles indicate there could be some changes when it comes to integrating mobile devices in the enterprise. Let's start with the Microsoft rumors. No doubt you've heard Microsoft p... More >
Earlier this week, I shared a survey showing an Integration Competency Center could save you time and money . In that post, I quoted Rick Sherman, the founder of Athena IT Solutions, who contends de... More >
Two announcements Tuesday indicate vendors are prepping mashups for enterprise adoption. JackBe, an enterprise mashup software company, unveiled its new Presto Mashup Ready program -- essentia... More >
Boy, is SOA ever in the trough of disillusionment. Criticisms of SOA are popping up left and right. Of course, regular readers may remember my own freak-out a few weeks ago when I'd just had... More >
"Integration Competency Center" seems a bit bureaucratic, doesn't it? It's like something you'd find at a university, maybe buried in the basement floor of the Poli Sci building -- or perhaps as a ti... More >
The problem with standards is, everybody has one. Microsoft's Office Open XML -- OOXML -- won ISO recognition last week, though not without the type of behind-the-scenes shenanigans and crie... More >
David Chappell, vice president and chief technologist for SOA at Oracle, shared a SOA success story this week. It's a mini-case study on how MOVE, Inc., an online real estate company with se... More >
Business process management technology is going mainstream, according to this Baseline Magazine article . But while companies may be accepting and buying BPM, they don't seem to know what the heck t... More >
AIIM MarketIQ recently surveyed 441 end users about their companies' use of Enterprise 2.0 technology - wikis, mashups, social networks; you know, the usual Web 2.0 stuff, but scaled for the enterpri... More >
One of my favorite features of IT-Analysis -- and its sister site, IT-Director.com -- is Philip Howard 's product reviews. Howard is a Director of Research Technology with Bloor Research, and hi... More >
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