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I've shared five ways companies used integration and integration-related strategies to build business and solve business problems in 2008 . Here, I continue the list with five more business-building... More >
Given the recession, it's a safe bet that the focus will be on cost cutting in 2009. But the smart money will also be on creating more business value with what remains. To do that, you're goin... More >
Yesterday, I shared lessons we learned in 2008 about finding success with SOA . My thesis being that, while it was a rough year for SOA, you could learn from the mistakes of the past year and hopefu... More >
No doubt about it, 2008 was a rough year for service-oriented architecture and the SOA faithful. SOA consultants found themselves in court trying to define SOA during cases involving failed impleme... More >
By now, most people are pretty familiar with the pros and cons of using open source solutions in the enterprise. I know I am – or at least, I thought I was until I saw this recent TechNewsWorld arti... More >
In what can only be described as a holiday miracle, IBM intends to solve your integration problems in 2009. (Pause.) Yeah, I was a bit skeptical, too. And rightly so, because it turns o... More >
It's Christmas, and even if you don't celebrate it, there's a good chance you've got a day off. Since you're reading this particular blog, that can only mean one thing: The same question is plaguing ... More >
We're nearing the year end and the 2009 predictions are starting to pop up. Since no one in the IT industry is trying to be Sylvia Browne, Jeanne Dixon or the like, many tech industry "predictions" r... More >
Last week, after spying on Yahoo's SOA Group , I wrote a piece questioning why so many SOA experts hate the SOA/integration connection . Basically, I couldn't grasp why it was such a big deal – why... More >
Mashups hog the spotlight these days when it comes to integration at the presentation, or user, layer. But they aren't the only tool in the tool shed, as David Linthicum pointed out in an eb... More >
"SOA is integration,” Gartner analyst Yefim Natis said at the Gartner AADI Summit – words quoted in this SearchSOA.com article . It wasn't well-received on the SOA Yahoo Group , where SO... More >
A lot of people, including technology experts, have struggled to define SOA and explain it, even to other IT folks. It looks like they'll get help in the New Year – an OMG official recently ... More >
Looking for that perfect Hanukkah/Christmas/Kwanzaa gift for your favorite IT friend? Why not consider the updated version of SOA for Dummies , which will be released Dec. 19 – just in time for the ... More >
Reading a recent post by Gartner analyst Andrew White, I wasn't surprise to learn that SOA is being deployed primarily as a means of simplifying integration. I also wasn't surprised to see t... More >
On Thanksgiving, I wrote about a survey demonstrating the business impact of bad online customer service and poor Web site/contact center integration . The survey was conducted in the UK by Harris I... More >
Recently, one of my favorite online productivity tools, I Want Sandy , e-mailed me to announce it's shutting down. Sandy was a virtual assistant. I would forward the site appointments with a little ... More >
If some of your users are on Lotus Notes, and you've got SharePoint, you might want to check out a SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes. It's the creation of Mainsoft Corp., an advanced IBM business... More >
They say the path to hell is paved with good intentions. If I were a member of a standards group, I'd put that at the head of our stationery. This week, a group of vendors announced the format... More >
When it comes to SOA and BPM, data integration is the elephant in the room: Everybody knows it's an issue, but people seldom address it directly. Occasionally, sure, it comes up , at least among SOA... More >
Lately, there's a lot of talk about whether IT staffs have the skills necessary to modernize and maintain IT systems, particularly when it comes to service-oriented architecture. Forbes colum... More >
This one's for the Microsoft devotees. I know you're out there – you work in a small or maybe even mid-sized company, and you really don't give two figs about anything unless Microsoft's got a soluti... More >
I just read a really good, short Fast Company article that mythbusts five popularly held ideas about mashups. It's so short, I wasn't even going to blog about it, but then I kept going, “Tha... More >
Despite recent news that master data management has gone mainstream and ranks among the fastest-growing software markets , MDM is not for the faint of heart or the weak of wallet. It's a time-inte... More >
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