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- Brickbats over bricks
- Some more input from CalStar on their pending entry into the building materials market. I had asked about who set the standards for what is a "brick." The answer from CalStar: "ASTM is not the gatekeeper for new products - national and local building codes are....
- Tags: Brick, Standards, CalStar, ASTM, Ash Brick, Quality, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- SOA's squishy paybacks revisited
- A couple of years back, I posted some observations on the issues around SOA payback. Some analysts still say there has been little to no payback from these efforts. Since SOA payback is still such a raw and confusing issue, here is an updated reprise of that post: ...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Payback, SOA, Service, Business Agility, David Linthicum, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-07-17
- Justifying SOA: 12 key metrics to keep tabs on
- I've had a great discussion going on over at the ebizQ site concerning the importance of measurement to SOA success. (Additional discussion is also taking place in an open forum at ebizQ.) Loraine Lawson joined the discussion, and did a stellar job of summarizing some of the...
- Tags: ROI, SOA, Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Roi/Tco, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-04-25
- Serna Enterprise 4.1 (Mac)
- Serna Enterprise is a powerful and easy-to-use WYSIWYG XML editor for collaborative authoring of structured content. Serna brings all the benefits of XML a business can get: quality content, highest authoring productivity, and automated multi-channel publishing in a seamlessly integrated environment. A variety of supported XML standards (such as DITA...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Syntext, Serna Enterprise, XML, Xhtml, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Scripting Languages
- Software downloads 2009-03-12
- Serna Enterprise for Windows 4.1 (Windows)
- Serna Enterprise is a powerful and easy-to-use WYSIWYG XML editor for collaborative authoring of structured content. Serna brings all the benefits of XML a business can get: quality content, highest authoring productivity, and automated multi-channel publishing in a seamlessly integrated environment. A variety of supported XML standards (such as DITA...
- Tags: Environment, Benefit, Syntext, Serna Enterprise, Microsoft Windows, XML, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Apple Mac OS
- Software downloads 2009-03-12
- Mainframe Rehosting With Oracle Tuxedo: Accelerating Cost Reduction and Application Modernization
- Find out how mainframe rehosting lets IT professionals spend more time and money on development rather than on maintaining aging systems. This free whitepaper explains how you can unlock the value of key business logic for integration and reuse and therefore create a more innovative IT environment.
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Cost Reduction, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2009-03-01
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- A There's more to data and SOACertainly a process-driven data integration approach that is exposed as a reusable service makes sense when the data involved requires some human intervention in order to perform the desired integration (e.g., rationalizing some naming mismatch between two siloed systems). But the vast majority of...
- Tags: data integration
- Discussion threads 2009-02-04
- Making Web 2.0 Work for Your Enterprise: IT Deployments
- By integrating new blog and wiki capabilities with an existing company intranet, a pharmaceutical company maximized the reuse of existing applications, security, and content, leading to an increase in cross-team collaboration, a reduction in e-mail traffic, and growth in new innovations.
- Tags: Web, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Wiki, E-mail, Web 2.0, Online Communications, Internet
- White papers 2009-01-01
- What's the damage? Consumer Electronics Association quantifies eco-impact of electronics
- Ever wonder JUST how much collateral damage all the electronics gadgets in your house and car and office are causing? Or thought about the internal environmental credentials for all the high-tech companies that are pushing the mantra of energy efficiency and reuse on their customers? The Consumer...
- Tags: Electronics, Consumer Electronics Association, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-24
- OpenOffice 3 launch timed perfectly but will Sun, IBM exploit opportunity?
- OpenOffice 3 launch timed perfectly but will Sun, IBM exploit opportunity?I don't think that Microsoft products cost anything to companies marginallyI believe my company has agreement with Microsoft where we pay them a fixed fee, and we get to use Microsoft software all we want. This would include Office. Therefore...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, OpenOffice, OpenOffice 3, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., software
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- Grumpy old man gets happy--how can this be? Isn't the U.S. economy hopelessly doomed?
- I'm a grumpy old man. It's very easy to get really angry or completely depressed blogging about cleantech, or the need for it. From the global warming arguments to whole nations--like my own and China--stubbornly refusing to move to new technologies, this seems to be an era of...
- Tags: U.S., McKinsey & Co., Clean Technology, Energy, Conservation, Deron Lovaas, Greenness, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- ByDesign, the younger person's ERP
- Many of the small and mid-sized businesses to whom SAP would like to sell its Business ByDesign SaaS offering are family-owned, especially in sectors like manufacturing, distribution and retail. SAP seems to feel that ByDesign will appeal to the forward-looking younger generation of those families â€" the future heirs of...
- Tags: Peter Zencke, Product, SAP AG, ERP, WIMA, Roi/Tco, Sales Strategy, Outsourcing, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Sales, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Disaster averted: But (sob) my next notebook might not be an Apple one
- I'm thinking I owe GreenTech Pastures readers an update on the state of my Apple PowerBook G4, which now is resting comfortably on the desk behind me, although it's in a bit of rehab with some applications that have disappeared. (Yes, I have two computers, so shoot me.) One of...
- Tags: Toshiba Tecra, Apple Inc., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-17
- In a down economy, expect subprime SOAs to suffer
- If the economy languishes as media pundits say it will, we may see a story of two SOAs. Those that are making a difference to the business and will continue to do so, and those that I'll classify as 'subprime SOAs' that will quickly have their oxygen cut off if...
- Tags: Enterprise Software, Joe McKendrick, Middleware, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), SOA, Software, Web Services
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- What the statistics are telling us about SOA
- There were plenty of surveys and studies around SOA adoption and issues this past year. Overall, the surveys point to widespread interest in SOA, and results among those companies with SOA already in progress. Here are a few highlights from this year's studies of SOA adoption: ...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- Top Technologies for 2008
- Gartner has just published its list of top 10 strategic technologies for 2008. I guess I'm a sucker for stuff like this having just spoken with a bunch of CIOs and reported on the results here. The biggest finding that I found in my research was...
- Tags: Web, Software-as-a-service, Analyst, Gartner Inc., Technology, Mashup, Metadata Management, Computing Fabric, Channel Management, Virtualization, Roi/Tco, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Utility Computing, Marketing, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2007-10-10
- Microsoft's 'service-enabled' approach is really only sorta-SOA
- A new article on Redmondmag.com examines the fascinating topic of Microsoft and SOA. Microsoft's strategy -- pivoting on the strengths of Windows Communications Foundation WCF as well as (huh?) applications virtualization -- is different from earlier "embrace and extend" market assault campaigns.Microsoft's SOA strategy amounts to embrace and contract. They...
- Tags: Information Technology, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Service, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-08-03
- Microsoft absent from open standards movement around SOA
- Back when Web services standards were being devised and made part of an open standards approach to XML-based loosely coupled services interoperability, Microsoft was head of the pack. It was one of the main supporters of the WS-* family of specifications that found a home at the Organization for the...
- Tags: Windows, Web Technology, Web Services, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA architect, SOA, Microsoft, Intellectual Property, datacenters, .NET
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- SOA is not above ROI scrutiny, but...
- My latest post on SOA and ROI stirred up some interesting discussion. Should SOA -- which is not a specific technology or project, but an enterprise infrastructure -- be subject to the rigors of ROI? ZDNet colleague Dana Gardner says yes, ROI must be applied to SOA activities, and is...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), ROI/TCO, Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, ROI
- Blog posts 2007-03-21
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