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Market-Leading Data-Modeling Tools: Research Report from the Burton Group

The Burton Group provides an in-depth research report on Market-Leading Data-Modeling Tools. According to their research, basic data modeling tools have become commoditized - basic features are yesterday's news! Today's emphasis is less on data modeling features and more on Architecture. According to this research; Sybase PowerDesigner is...

Tags: Burton Group, Sybase PowerDesigner, Sybase Inc., Modeling, Research & Development, Databases, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2009-11-01

802.11n: The End of Ethernet?

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE 802.11n standard represents the beginning of the end for wired Ethernet as the dominant Local Area Network LAN access technology in the enterprise. Over the next few years, refinements in system silicon, radio design, network control, wireless security, and power management will...

Tags: Burton Group, IEEE 802.11n, IEEE, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Network Technology, Networking, Wireless And Mobility

White papers 2009-09-14

Burton Group study reveals enterprise social networking priorities

Burton Group principal analyst Mike Gotta recently published the first of six parts of his Enterprise Social Networks Field Research Study. The study aims to determine whether or not social networking has reached critical mass within the enterprise or if the concept is merely buzz. The first...

Tags: Burton Group, Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-03-24

Burton Group plans to lay SOA to rest (no pun intended)

Burton Group plans to lay SOA to rest no pun intendedCorporate TrollingMaybe the trend that should die is to take something, anything, and call it a "bubble" or predict it's death or tell us that it's JTS.SOA is just getting started...RE: Burton Group plans to lay SOA to rest (no...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Burton Group, SOA, pun

Discussion threads 2009-01-30

Burton Group plans to lay SOA to rest (no pun intended)

As we all know by now, Anne Thomas Manes tearfully announced that SOA met its untimely or very timely demise on New Year's Day, the victim of an errant meteor, or some kind of weird piece of junk falling from outer space. (Or perhaps a stray shot from the grassy...

Tags: Burton Group, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-01-30

Study: Only one out of five SOA efforts bearing fruit

Study: Only one out of five SOA efforts bearing fruitSO at AA level is still SOAI fully appreciate Burton Group's view that SO is best applied to business/enterprise architecture. That's where the biggest payoff is ostensibly to be found."The service is only built for one application and it's never going...

Tags: application architecture, Burton Group, emperor, mentality, silo, SOA, SOA Efforts, Web service

Discussion threads 2008-07-09

Web Filtering: Completing the Evolution From Acceptable-Use to Serious Malware Defense

Web-filtering solutions provide acceptable-use policy enforcement and malware protection. Given the rapidly increasing number of attacks originating from the Web, such solutions are ever more important. The landscape of web filtering is evolving as vendors mature their solutions, acquire competitors, and start to blend products with other protection functions, such...

Tags: Web, Burton Group, Malware, Channel Management, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Marketing

White papers 2008-01-23

Independent study advises IT planners to go OOXML

Market researchers with the Burton Group have issued a 37-page study-- not commissioned by Microsoft or any other tech vendor -- that finds Microsoft's OOXML document format to be more useful than the rival ODF format backed by Microsoft's competitors. The new study, freely downloadble (in exchange...

Tags: Burton Group, Information Technology, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-01-14

A hasty move to Google Apps a 'career-limiting move'

The Burton Group has released a new research report, entitled "Google Apps in the Enterprise: A Promotion-Enhancing or Career-Limiting Move for Enterprise Architects?"(Warning: Spoiler ahead. And it's especially "spoiling" for those who are counting on Google to finally give Microsoft Office, with its 90-plus percent market share, some serious competition.)Burton's...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Burton Group, Microsoft Office, Career, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-08-23

IT Analysts in Price War?

The Burton Group, an IT analyst firm, is trying to steal court customers away from competing firms, such as Gartner Group and Forrester Research, with a low-price offer. From the Burton "Drop a Seat" website:For a limited time, Burton Group is offering new, first-time clients unlimited, enterprise-wide access to one...

Tags: Burton Group, Information Technology, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-08-07

Identity on the mind

Last week the Burton Group Catalyst conference focused on an identity management, from enterprise single sign-on to user-centric identity. This week the "identorati" are gathered together for the Identity Mashup Conference hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Mark Dixon has a good summary...

Tags: Identity, Identity Mashup, mashup

Blog posts 2006-06-19

Search for top Gartner alternative comes up empty handed

Tekrati is addressing the debate over which industry analyst firm is the best alternative to Gartner, now that Gartner’s acquisition of Meta Group is history. Tekrati hand-picked what they consider are seven top choices in North America--Forrester Research, IDC and AMR Research, Burton Group, Info-Tech Research Group, The 451...

Tags: META Group Inc., clientS, Burton Group

Blog posts 2005-08-15

Burton Group to prove multi-protocol federated identity can work

Burton Group to prove multi-protocol federated identity can workMessage has been deleted.

Tags: identity federation, Burton Group

Discussion threads 2005-06-12

Burton Group to prove multi-protocol federated identity can work

Burton Group is going to demonstrate the first multi-protocol federal identity system to prove that multiple federated identity protocols and standards can coexist at its Catalyst Conference North America 2005 on July 13, in San Diego. "Enterprises deploying federated identity are faced with a mix of standards and protocols, including...

Tags: Burton Group, identity federation

Blog posts 2005-06-09

Are rivals stealing AOL buddies?

AOL may have millions of instant messaging users, but it is in danger of squandering its lead to rivals Microsoft and Yahoo in the race to sell IM to corporations. Which IM will rule the business world? AOL Time Warner runs two of the...

Tags: Burton Group, AOL Instant Messenger, Instant Messenger, America Online Inc., IM, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, Paul Festa

News items 2002-06-04

Additional Resources

Manes: no bones about it, 'SOA' (as we knew it) is still dead

"I never intended to say that organizations shouldn't do SOA (they MUST!), but SOA teams are hard pressed to get funding for their efforts unless they focus on delivering services that generate measurable business value." - Anne Thomas Manes Anne Thomas Manes...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-05-26

Oracle under fire with x86 hypervisor licensing

Burton Group's Chris Wolf has fired a salvo in Oracle's direction concerning its x86 hypervisor licensing policy. This is a long extract from a much more in depth piece but it is necessary to see what Chris is saying in order to understand the context (my emphasis added and apologies...

Tags: Hypervisor, Oracle Corp., Intel X86, Customer, CPU, VM, Virtualization, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-05-19

IBM cements cloud, appliance, BPM, CEP and SOA into an IMPACT 2009 solution brick

IBM cements cloud, appliance, BPM, CEP and SOA into an IMPACT 2009 solution brickNot too cloudyI don't share your excitement about IBM's announcement. In my post "Comfort Food and Cloud Computing" I discuss that cloud computing is a new paradigm that requires new ways of thinking.Cloud must support a...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Business process automation, Virtualization, Operational planning, Enterprise software, cloud computing, solution brick, IMPACT 2009, IBM Corp., BPM, SOA

Discussion threads 2009-05-04

Is Oracle serious about hardware?

Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems brings a sizeable hardware business to Larry Ellison's gang. The larger question is how serious is Oracle about Sun's hardware? On a conference call with analysts Techmeme, Oracle executives just happened to mention that Sun's manufacturing was outsourced. That mention was notable because...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-20

The CIA's Collaboration Growth Curve & IBM's Lotusphere ecosystem

One of the highlights of last June's Enterprise 2.0 conference was Don Burke and Sean Dennehy of the US Central Intelligence Agency CIA describing how their 'Intellipedia' wikis were transforming the agency into a more collaborative organization: that presentation is embedded above. Ten...

Tags: Fax Machine, CIA, Network, IBM Corp., Intellipedia, Fax, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-16