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SOA-Web 2.0: a lot in common, but two centers of gravity

"We’re continuing to see more clearly that Web 2.0 and SOA really are largely (but not 100%) the same concepts that merely lay on different â€" if fairly different â€" parts of the software continuum." -Dion HinchliffeZDNet colleague Dion Hinchliffe has been watching the mashup developing between SOA and Web...

Tags: Web Services, Standards Watch, General, Business ROI

Blog posts 2007-05-21

Web 2.0 gets equal billing with SOA in new IBM book

IBMs SOA guru, Sandy Carter, has just published a great advocacy book on why and how and where businesses need SOA, covering a lot of the bases of business thinking.Interestingly, she also devotes a chapter to Web 2.0 (wikis, mashups, collaboration). In fact, the title of the book, The New...

Tags: General, Business ROI, Vendor Watch

Blog posts 2007-02-27

SOA: business first. Web 2.0: business later

Service oriented architecture and Web 2.0 share a lot of common ground. Both invoke reusable code, both enable the rapid development of mashed-upped (read: composite) applications, and both rely on industry wide standards. But theres an important difference between the two, according to at least one analyst. The mantra you...

Tags: General, Business ROI, Standards Watch, Web Services

Blog posts 2006-11-07

Additional Resources

Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 public betas now available for download

Microsoft still firmly planted in the LAST century.NTLinux Kernel speaks?Hmmm, I'd fear for the future of Linux if this is what comes out of it. You'd think the "many eyes" would have caught such silly logic in the kernel years ago...and looking ready to dominate this oneas well.Google is...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, public beta, Microsoft SharePoint, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux, Office suites, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Enterprise 2.0: What do we know today about moving our organizations into the 21st century?

Enterprise 2.0 ROIDion - An extremely interesting article. As a vendor of social software, we're often exposed to an intriguing mix of the trends that you've outlined above. In particular, we've noticed that those common internal advocates you mentioned (e.g. corporate communications, knowledge management) are already sold on the benefits...

Tags: Sales force management, Enterprise 2.0, E 2.0

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform

In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-08

Five reasons to deliver a virtual service, not a virtual server

What began as an interesting technological experiment has now become an opportunity for IT to shape its future, says Fortisphere's Lilac Berniker Commentary - As virtualization becomes an increasingly commonplace technology in the datacenter, the breadth of stakeholders in the virtual environment is growing. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Workload, Virtual Server, Server, Strategy, Management, virtualization, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-10-29

Conference alert: let's make SOA work for a living

Welcome to Service Oriented Architecture, Phase 2. It's bigger, It's badder, it's all business.  None of this namby-pamby JBOWs stuff. None of these SOAPY-REST tantrums. SOA is all grown up now, and it's time it starts earning the bacon. I am serving as conference chair and...

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

Blog posts 2009-10-15

Adobe to acquire Omniture; CEO calls move a 'game-changer'

Adobe Systems said Tuesday that it will acquire Omniture, which offers Web analytics, measurement and optimization technologies, in a cash deal that's valued at about $1.8 billion, or $21.50 per share of Omniture. That adds up to a premium of about 45 percent over Omniture's average closing price over the...

Tags: Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-15

Will Microsoft always be seen as open source Astroturf?

Long ago......people gave up any semblance of being able to separate the message from the messenger. We saw it with the anti-Bush tirades, we see it now with the anti-Obama (and the anti-anti-Obama) tirades, as we see it in the anti-Microsoft tirades. Microsoft could announce that the sun was going...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., publically-traded company, open source

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

Strategies for Developing a Highly Collaborative Support Environment

Web collaboration has emerged from the economic ashes of 2009 as a bright new support tool with a compelling ROI. It's no wonder: Web collaboration benefits for technical support include improved service levels, reduced operational costs and an impressive competitive advantage. View this TechRepublic Webcast to hear...

Tags: Strategy, Web, Web-based Collaboration, Environment, Collaboration, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Webcasts 2009-08-26

Using social software to reinvent the customer relationship

What IS Enterprise Web 2.0?[of course there IS no such thing, and if there is it is the crumpled Frankenstein that it suggests it is]"While Enterprise 2.0 tools, primarily aimed at collaboration, are certainly part of this story, they often don?t help companies enjoy the full range of possibilities when...

Tags: Web 2.0, Collaboration, Customer relationship management (CRM), Product marketing, social software, Social CRM

Discussion threads 2009-08-18

Open-Xchange and Social Networking

they may not want their organizational data out there ...... but it already is anyhow.Organizations' social graph - much more than just their org chart ... - is neatly reflected in all the job titles, departmental information etc. you already find in abundance on social network servers all over the...

Tags: social networking, network, Open-Xchange

Discussion threads 2009-08-17

Fortune 500 Series: How EMC used social media to recruit, re-brand, rebuild

EMC can best be described as an entity. Not only in the Fortune 500, the infrastructure information provider was recognized by Fortune as one of the 10 most admired companies for product and service quality. This success didn't come easy to the giant, which needed to significantly rebuild its business...

Tags: Social Networking, Brand, Social Media, EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Conversation with Virtuoso, a Liquid Computing Customer

I recently had the opportunity to communicate with Joel Chaplin, CIO at Virtuoso, a Liquid Computing customer, and thought you'd like to read a bit about that conversation. By the way, I posted Liquid Computing and the dynamic datacenter back in March 2009. Please introduce...

Tags: Virtuoso, LiquidIQ, Disaster Recovery, Servers, Data Management, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-08-05

What's Microsoft's next billion-dollar business? (Hint: it's not search)

What's Microsoft's next billion-dollar business? (Hint: it's not search)Typo"Business Productivity Online Services, Windows Azure, desktop virtualization, storage Data Protection Manager and identity ser[b]v[/b]ices."Me: I would really work much harder on mobileI think Microsoft is doing the right thing in the Enterprise space. I even think it is a...

Tags: Research & Development, Collaboration, Groupware, Content management, Enterprise software, NOW IT, Microsoft Corp., billion-dollar business, R&D, Microsoft SharePoint

Discussion threads 2009-08-03

Ten top issues in adopting enterprise social computing

Ten top issues in adopting enterprise social computingVapor lock between Business Process and Social ComputingSimilar to the vapor lock between IT and Business, there's also a big gap in understanding and focus on how Social Computing accelerates process performance. The obsession around new metrics for adoption and new ROI standards...

Tags: Social networking, social computing, enterprise social computing

Discussion threads 2009-07-27

News to know: Amazon; Yahoo-Microsoft; Wireless carrier exclusivity; YouTube; Oracle; HP-IBRIX

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Amazon gets bullied, pulls purchased e-books from Kindles Dana Blankenhorn: Amazon uses 1984 to free e-books...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Andrew Nusca, Mary Jo Foley, YouTube Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Wireless, Brammo, GlassHouse Service, Microsoft Windows 7, FireWire, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Smart Phones, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-07-20

Social media: Pondering the corporate ROI

Social networking can deliver returns to enterprises as long as companies devote some time to them. Joe McKendrick at Smart Planet details some of the ROI discussions going on. Citing Natalie L. Petouhoff, Ph.D., an analyst at Forrester, and her study titled The ROI Of Online Customer...

Tags: Network, Social Media, ROI, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-17

News to know: Social media spam; Sprint; Windows Mobile; Google

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Jennifer Leggio: Snake oil at its slickest: A social media spam story Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Silverlight 3 available...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Social Media, Spam, Microsoft Corp., Sprint Communications, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-07-10