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- 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...
- Tags: Case Studies, Business ROI, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- Citigroup consolidation will be a real test for SOA governance
- I just posted some observations on how the best SOA governance may resemble the way the US Constitution is set up, with separation of powers and jurisdictions. I held up Citigroup as a shining example of this thinking, as they have an SOA governance structure set up with a "national"...
- Tags: Business ROI, General, Case Studies
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- Eight more companies that made SOA happen in 2006
- Last week, I cited examples of SOA work that took place over the past year at ten leading companies. Here are eight more companies that led the way with SOA, originally posted over at my SOA in Action site: Integrate back-end legacy systems: International Truck developed an SOA-based "Common Vehicle...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA
- Blog posts 2006-12-26
- Ten companies where SOA made a difference in 2006
- The year 2006 was a busy one for SOA proponents; many service-oriented architectures moved from the pilot stages to live deployments. Many companies have been able to demonstrate value from their SOA efforts; here are some outstanding examples I reported on in this blogsite throughout the year. Abstracting enterprise information...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA
- Blog posts 2006-12-17
- Defense doesn't rest with SOA
- A new report indicates the Defense Information Systems Agency -- a huge systems buyer -- may be skeptical about all the SOA hoopla. The article in FCW quotes David Bryan, vice president of the Northrop Grumman Defense Group, as saying that the industry is struggling to determine a sound...
- Tags: General, Business ROI, Case Studies, DISA, SOA
- Blog posts 2006-11-10
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- Zoho Share(point?)
- If there's one thing I really like it is what I term 'self evident' applications. These are apps that have a clear purpose and which are blindingly simple to use. Zoho Share falls squarely in that category. The company prefers to think of...
- Tags: People Area, Bookmarks, RSS, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Internet, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Suit over baby vid with Prince song goes forward
- Everybody agrees. Stephanie Lenz' video of her young son with Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" playing in the background was a fair use of a copyrighted work. But Universal submitted a DMCA takedown notice on the video and YouTube took it down for a month until Lenz was able to get...
- Tags: Use, DMCA, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Words from the Woz
- Steve Wozniak is many things: electronics enthusiast, author of iWoz, former fifth-grade teacher, plane-crash survivor, ex-reality-TV-boyfriend of D-list comedian Kathy Griffin, and, oh yeah, co-founder of a company called Apple. You might have heard of it. Today, he put on the hat of former engineer as he...
- Tags: Microsoft Word, Electronics, Apple Inc., Computer, Intel Developer Forum, Productivity, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Typosquatting the U.S presidential election - a security risk?
- Cybercriminals know how to take advantage of anticipated traffic by abusing the momentum of a particular event, like the U.S presidential election in this case. Everyone, from scammers coming up with legitimately looking donation sites that they will later on spam, to the a bit more complex blackhat search engine...
- Tags: Campaign, Domain, Internet, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Websense reports China Netcom DNS cache poisoning
- The DNS server of one of China's largest ISPs has been poisoned to redirect typos to a malicious site rigged with drive-by exploits. According to a warning from Websense Security Labs, the DNS poisoning attacks are affecting customers of China Netcom CNC and are using a malicious...
- Tags: China Netcom, DNS, DNS Server, Internet Service Provider, Websense Inc., Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Domain Names, Servers, Internet, Hardware, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Top five issues your IT staff wants to address but is afraid to tell you
- If you’re an IT manager or CIO, you may want to gather the troops before you begin the Web 2.0 modernization process as even the best laid plans can go awry says Nexaweb Technologies Jeremy Chone. Commentary--The proliferation of enterprise Web 2.0 has created new...
- Tags: Web, Information Technology, Web 2.0, Strategy, Internet, Management, CIO, IT management, code, Jeremy Chone, Nexaweb Technologies
- News items 2008-08-21
- IKEA's mixed bag of IT investments
- Last evening I read an interesting Gartner case study (registration wall warning.) It tells how IKEA Components, a company that is part of the iconic retailer of flat pack furniture used Lawson Software products to make significant across the board process savings and improvements. The business intelligence/process project makes great...
- Tags: IKEA, Information Technology, IT Investment, David Meerman Scott, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- SAP All-in-One implementations in less than 3 months?
- At the risk of sounding like an infomercial for SAP or turning Irregular Enterprise into 'SAPWatch,' I recently learned about a consulting shop that guarantees implementing SAP All-in-One in three months at a fixed price. I was skeptical given that the on-demand Business ByDesign implementations I'm hearing about are taking...
- Tags: SAP AG, Training, Workforce Management, Change Management, Training And Certification, Human Resources, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Dell bets on Salesforce.com's platform as a service
- Amid a quarter that Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff called "spectacular," but spooked analysts worried about future growth was an interesting nugget: Dell has jumped on the platform as a service bandwagon. On Salesforce.com's second quarter conference call (earnings recap, InStranet acquisition) Benioff revealed that Dell signed a...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Marc Benioff, Billing, PaaS, Summer Sales Cycle, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- The Waltham Pact: Where are the tangibles?
- Â This week, Microsoft renewed their union with Novell, to the tune of an additional 100 million dollars in commitment to buy more SUSE Linux support certificates that it can sell to its customers. Dang, Ballmer, for that kind of cash, you can get your vows renewed...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux, Open Source, OpenOffice, UNIX, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Office Suites, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- FCC issues 'radical' order re: Comcast
- The FCC has released its formal decision PDF against Comcast, ordering it to stop throttling BitTorrent traffic. As Wired's David Kravets views it, it's an open invitation for ISPs to censor content – so long as they're protocol-agnostic about it. Calling the decision "vitriolic," Kravets says:...
- Tags: FCC, Commission, Network, Comcast Corp., Internet Service Provider, Network Management, Federal Government, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Sales Force Management, Networking, Government, Internet, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Open source and innovation as maintenance models
- Following my piece on a proposed model for enterprise applications maintenance, two fresh posts, one from Matt Aslett at 451.com and another from Leigh Cauldwell offer alternative ideas around how the present conundrum might be solved. Matt offers the open source position arguing that: Â This would appear to be...
- Tags: Innovation, Leigh Cauldwell, Matt, Savio Rodrigues, Open Source, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Yahoo and Intel's Web TV widget could be the winner
- I have seen the future of television. And I can't wait to "watch." For years, companies large and small have been trying to merge the experiences of watching TV and surfing the Web. But none have really taken off, largely because the attempts have tried to force...
- Tags: Web TV, Web, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Intel Corp., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- What SaaS can teach us about customer service
- In the SaaS model, the power is with the customer and vendors need to take a very different approach to both sales and service, here's how to do it says Archie Black, President and CEO of SPS Commerce. Commentary--Software-as-a-Service SaaS is one of the fastest growing segments of...
- Tags: Customer Service, Software-as-a-service, Customer, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, SaaS, software. customer service, sales, Archie Black, SPS Commerce, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2008-08-20
- Novell-Microsoft interop pact may look sweeter to IT shops these days
- Novell took a lot of heat from open source backers for executing an interoperability pact with Microsoft in late 2006 but the partnership -- strengthened with a new $100 million investment from Microsoft today -- is probably looking sweeter to mixed IT shops these days. Why? Because of recent...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Interoperability, Information Technology, Microsoft Office, ISO, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, Virtualization, OpenOffice, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Office Suites, Software, Storage, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
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