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You're more likely to hear complaints about connecting to back-end transaction systems if you're using .NET, according to a recent survey by Evans Data. .NET developers are also more likely to blame ... More >
Recently, IT Business Edge's Susan Hall interviewed SOA expert and Gartner analyst Roy Schulte about managing expectations around SOA. His off-the-cuff advice: The key to happiness is low expectati... More >
Has anyone else noticed that SOA vendors seem to be doing a lot of partnering and integrating these days? I had stopped doing integration news round-ups, because the news was kinda slow, but l... More >
My husband recently finished reading, " Leading Geeks ," by Paul Glen. One of the book's theme is that technology people tend to have a problem-solution mindset. In other words, they view events and ... More >
Gartner released its 2008 Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tool on Monday. Normally, this 32-page document would run you $1,995.00, but already it's available for free online , thanks to SAS, w... More >
Last month, I shared big and small use cases for service-oriented architecture and referenced an article by Mike Kavis about start-ups and SOA. The article was theoretical, meaning Kavis didn't o... More >
Lately, the big buzz has been about SOA governance, which I think is a good endurance indicator for any technology trend. It usually means people are getting serious about doing things right. ... More >
VMware CEO Paul Maritz grabbed a lot of headlines this week by declaring the traditional operating system obsolete . It's pretty hard to move beyond that. But, let's do, because, as it turns ... More >
I hate to write a blog post pointing to a blog post that, in turn, points you somewhere else. But I'm going to. And here's why: I missed the original article , and it's a good one. It's about the ne... More >
One of the more confusing debates about service-oriented architecture is when an implementation is enterprise application integration or actually a SOA . I was reminded of this old debate while read... More >
Sometimes, when my 5-year-old daughter wants attention, she'll start asking me questions. The why questions are actually the easiest because I can always look it up. "Why is the sky blue?" she'll ask... More >
I'm all about the free stuff, so I was pretty excited to see that Bloor Research is giving away copies of its recent report, " Comparative Costs and Uses of Data Integration Platforms ." Bloor survey... More >
Economic uncertainty tends to lead to buy-outs and mergers and acquisitions, so CIO Insight is probably hitting a timely theme with its recent piece, " How CIOs Can Make Mergers Work ." The article's... More >
I was a bit confounded recently when Tony Fisher, president of DataFlux, told me that MDM could just become yet another data silo . His point was that you shouldn't just buy an MDM solution and expe... More >
IT Business Edge is running a series of interviews on SOA this month, trying to, once again, pin down SOA's definition, cut through the philosophical debating, and boil it down to something you can... More >
Enterprise architect and blogger Todd Biske tackled an issue this week that affects many, but often gets left out of integration discussions: How do vendor consolidations and partnerships affect in... More >
Sometimes, I feel a little bit sorry for myself, writing about integration. I mean, integration is a kick in the pants, as we all know, but it's not exactly all new and shiny. So, I figured I ... More >
Tony Fisher had some surprising things to say about master data management during my recent interview with him. Fisher is the president and CEO of DataFlux, which sells an MDM solution. He was... More >
It's hard to get a handle on SaaS and whether it's a smart move. On the one hand, you've got people like Harry Debes, CEO of the ERP provider, Lawson Software, claiming that SaaS is doomed to ... More >
I still believe in social networking and the potential of Web 2.0 -- despite everything Facebook and MySpace have done to quell my initial enthusiasm. So, in the spirit of Web 2.0 optimism, I'... More >
Apparently, I frustrated SOA Enterprise Architect Jean-Jacques Dubray with a recent post, " Integration, SOA, Whatever. It's Always About the Business ." And boy, am I glad I did. Dubray's blog notes... More >
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