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- Let market forces drive SOA adoption
- A report out of ComputerWeekly notes that in its latest survey of 100 top IT executives, 77% now "believe it is getting easier to demonstrate the business value of IT" -- up from 66% in February.Statistical margin of error (10%) aside, what happened over the last five months to make...
- Blog posts 2007-07-24
- Other views: IT resists SOA because it's jaded
- Who's the 'decider' when it comes to SOA? A couple of days back, I posted thoughts around Ron Schmelzer's observation that it is IT departments that are the worst obstacles to SOA, and got quite a few interesting reactions from readers. The general consensus, at least among this group,...
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- Who takes credit for SOA 'success'? Should IT?
- Lately, Ron Schemlzer kicked off quite a kerfuffle across the blogosphere joined in by yours truly as well on who's really putting up the greatest resistance to service oriented architecture. Ron says the IT department itself is the one that is gumming up the works.Success has a thousand fathers, while...
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- Analyst: IT departments are sabotaging SOA
- Conventional wisdom dictates that tech-challenged business executives that also happen to hold the purse strings stand in the way of SOA proliferation across enterprises. However, ZapThinks Ron Schmelzer lays the blame for SOA inertia right at the doorstep of the folks that are supposed to be its prime advocates --...
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Surprise: new Harvard-MIT study finds IT does 'matter' -- a lot
- Andrew McAfee of Harvard Business School and Erik Brynjolfsson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently wrapped up a study that sought to answer the question that has been nagging at the industry for the past couple of years: does information technology matter? Or is it becoming commoditized to the...
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- Another view: clear IT 'clutter' before thinking about SOA
- Some call it IT "sprawl," and theres plenty of agreement that theres too much "clutter" in our enterprises. Is it wise to potentially add new infrastructure via SOA on top of what may already be a tangled mess of applications and systems?As reported by Brian Sommer in a new post...
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- BEA exec: Get business users involved in app development
- Okay, lets review our checklist of who needs to be educated or enlightened about SOA. Unfortunately, it looks like everyone up and down the value chain, including IT:The financial community doesnt get SOA. Some CTOs are not enamored, as of yet, by SOA. Many IT professionals/architects arent ready with the...
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- Let's bring Steve Jobs in to make SOA a hit
- Is SOA suffering from a failure of imagination? Perhaps the industry needs someone who can really capture the imagination of business decision makers to really make service-oriented architecture all that it can and should be.For all the vendor brouhaha around SOA, theres one voice that has been notably absent --...
- Blog posts 2006-12-08
- Can SOA undo years of overspending?
- I helped prepare collateral material for the recent InfoWorld SOA Executive Forum, which included a series of podcast interviews I conducted with major SOA players.All seven podcasts are available for listening or download at the SOA in Action site, sponsored by ebizQ. Ill provide some nuggets of the podcasts as...
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
Additional Resources
- Efficiency, sustainability, and digital natives accelerate paper's path to digital
- As people spend more time consuming information digitally at home and at work, reliance on paper continues to decrease. But how far are we across the Digital Divide? In 1975, George E. Pake, then head of Xerox Corp.’s Palo Alto Research Center, predicted that in 1995 his office would be...
- Blog posts 2009-12-04
- No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of them
- And, as servers move to the cloud, fewer and fewer will be Windows servers.When you deploy thousands, you can pay millions in licensing for Windows, and, then Windows is less stable and less secure.RE: No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of themI wonder how well those outsourced...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- Data Compression Benchmark and ROI Analysis
- Data compression offers a technology solution for increasing the efficiencies and decreasing the costs of storing and transferring critical business information. With average compression rates of 50 percent per file, it makes sense to integrate compression technology into business processes and applications. PKZIP compression solutions offer trusted technologies to help...
- White papers 2009-10-07
- 10 reasons why e-readers make sense in the enterprise
- TechRepublic guest post: In case you haven’t heard, e-readers are making an impact. They’ve been around for some time, but only now (thanks, in part, to Amazon’s Kindle) are they being taken seriously. The e-readers’ biggest fan is the avid reader, but this doesn’t have to (and most likely won’t)...
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- Jive & Telligent Get More Analytical
- Jive, creator of 'Social Business Software 3.0', are announcing today an OEM agreement with business intelligence vendor SAP AG, through which it will deliver community analytics that combine the best in Social Business Software together with SAP® BusinessObjects™ BI OnDemand offerings. This partnership makes available complete cloud-based analytics...
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- Cisco Releasing Sophisticated Collaboration Framework to Accelerate Your Business Value
- Cisco are releasing a 58 page report which details their 900 percent return on investment in collaboration and social networking and which details how they have successfully increased productivity, innovation and growth. The Report, 'Creating a Collaborative Enterprise: a Guide to Accelerating Business...
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- AMD uses Radian6 as a preferred 'listening' engine
- One of the biggest challenges social media enthusiasts face while trying to sell their executives on a progressive marketing program is proving the value of listening. The concept of purely outbound marketing is old, yet safe, and many companies are afraid to invite the scary conversations in and take action...
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- ROI and ImageNow: Generating Measurable Cost Savings and Efficiencies Across the Enterprise
- In today's business environment, ROI derived from Information Technology IT is defined as the percentage measurement of an IT project's expected return, which is calculated by dividing net benefits by costs. This white paper helps in learning how the following categories determine the long-term, financial impact of an ECM system...
- White papers 2009-05-21
- Gauging the return on R&D: Do tech giants spend too much?
- Gauging the return on R&D: Do tech giants spend too much?Microsoft spend too much on R&D for the return, IBM spend right amountIBM has always been a set of collective businesses with a management that is without technology bias. This is a powerful formula for long term success.Microsoft by comparison...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-14
- The disruptive tectonic forces at the intersection of technology and media
- The disruptive tectonic forces at the intersection of technology and mediaRE: The disruptive tectonic forces at the intersection of technology and meI wish what you are saying were true. But the country is just dying, and nothing needs to come out of the present troubles.The media is just like...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-03
- Enterprise 2.0 promise is years off...if it materializes
- Enterprise 2.0 promise is years off...if it materializesLooking at the chartHey, aren't those types of value accruded the same as what they said about SOA? I mean what they said about Net 2.0? Oh I meant to say Web 2.0? I mean cloud computing? Now it's enterprise 2.0? Gee,...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-13
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