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- Lemons into Lemonade â€" Business Suite 7
- (mid-press conference post - subject to update) SAP today announced its Business Suite 7 today. Here’s a set of capabilities that extend the core ERP solution set. Specifically, what BS7 does apparently, is to take some the lessons SAP learned from the expensive development of its Business...
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
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- Does virtualization equal cloud computing?
- I would say yesThere is no need to buy 'stand alone' servers any longer in functionality when you can put it in a Blade 'name your flavor' chassis.Virtualization with VMware/RHEL or some vendor is the best way to get it off bare-metal...Doing baremetal rebuilds is time consuming and it takes...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-25
- What we may/may not hear @ Oracle Open World this week
- Fusion is the Mirror and Unveiling of Oracle Customer ContemptOracle has punted on delivering integration as a product:IF you consider the definition of integration to be 'supplied as a buyable product and supported by the vendor.' Oracle's definition seems to be integration the same way that Facebook and YouTube are...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-14
- Oracle OpenWorld: Getting down to business
- Unfaithful Application VisionOracle has punted on delivering integration as a product:IF you consider the definition of integration to be 'supplied as a buyable product and supported by the vendor.' Oracle's definition seems to be integration the same way that Facebook and YouTube are integrated-at the surface only and then 'pushing'...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-14
- Join Us for the Informatica 9 LaunchTransform your business. Transform your world.
- Join Us for the Informatica 9 Launch Transform your business. Transform your world. Business and IT will finally be on the same page. Data quality issues will be a thing of the past. The promise of SOA will finally be realized. Join...
- Webcasts 2009-10-01
- Pragmatic new models for enterprise architecture take shape
- This is really greatVery articulate and overall wonderful!EA, Emergent Architecture and Optimized Engagement ModelsMr Hinchcliffe,Great post. Id like to point out that our research shows the best way to move to a more responsive, agile and deliberate architect organization is through an active engagement model which employs all 'types' of...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-12
- Layer 7 Technologies Security in the Cloud
- Paul Rochester, CEO, and Scott Morrison, VP Engineering and Chief Architect, of Layer 7 Technologies, dropped by virtually to introduce me to their company's technology and the philosophy behind their products. After a while, I was able to understand the approach they were taking and how extensible and flexible it...
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- 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: ...
- Blog posts 2009-07-17
- More music to the ears of SOA enthusiasts
- A few weeks back, I pointed to an analogy of SOA functioning as an "iTunes" store for enterprise apps. Kudos to Fundtech's George Ravich for making such a great analogy. He noted at the time that “the SOA service catalog promises to have the same impact on enterprise computing...
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- What should SAP do with its $5bn war chest?
- A number of recent conversations with the financial analyst community about the ongoing tussle between Oracle and SAP have proved extremely interesting. There is speculation whether SAP will hit the numbers it has internally set itself for Q2 although nothing I hear or see suggests the company has been blown...
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- SOA services still too constrained by applications they represent
- It almost seemed as if the whole bottom-up versus top-down argument for SOA had been settled, once and for all. The best approach from now on would be bottom-up, with some middle-out, or something like that. None of this "big bang" stuff. Business units will build focused, ROI-generating projects which...
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- Six ways to run SOA as an internal cloud business
- We probably could argue for another 10 years about the ROI of SOA. Is there ROI? If so, why isn't there more of it? How do we measure it? How should SOA be sold to the business? Why won't the business provide more funding? Or, we could...
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Enterprise 2.0 2009 Conference: Aggregate and Organize
- I finally made it to Boston for the Enterprise 2.0 conference with my record intact. That record would be that I have NEVER in 15 years of flying to Boston a hundred times, NEVER, repeat again, NEVER been on time both ways. This one was resolved quickly because my flight...
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- SOA, IT and cloud governance converge into 'total services governance'
- Is it time to govern the cloud? Should it be the same governance we're working so hard to apply to service oriented architecture? These are the questions tackled at Dana Gardner's latest BriefingsDirect analyst podcast, in which I had the opportunity to chime in. (Full transcript available here.) ...
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- Why SOA really, really matters in a cloud computing world
- Why SOA really, really matters in a cloud computing worldcloud compositionI've long held that control over Enterprise destiny is going to be the extent to which organizations can recombine, consume, and digest what is happening in the broader environment.With the cloud coming on so quickly, it's becoming clear that a...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-10
- TIBCO takes PaaS plus integration capabilities to global enterprises via their choice of clouds
- Combining platform as a service PaaS with a built-in ability to integrate and manage hybrid cloud deployments, TIBCO Software today threw its hat in the cloud computing ring by taking its middleware and Java development and deployment platforms to new heights. Coinciding with the JavaOne conference and...
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- Some welcome competition in mid-market ERP
- Sage's X3 - Does it need big systems integrators as part of its market success? A few days ago, several members of the analyst and press community were given a briefing on Sage’s high-end ERP product, X3. X3 was acquired by Sage three years ago and...
- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- Study: two out of five SOA adopters don't measure value
- Study: two out of five SOA adopters don't measure valueHow does this compare to other adoptions?Are the numbers from this survey similar to other surveys that measured the adoption of other approaches? Is 2 out of 5 bad? Or par for the course? And what conclusions are to be drawn...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-18
- Seven stages of SOA maturity: from silos to services
- Many of you who have visited this site over the years may have noticed somewhat of a bias toward small-scale SOA as the best way to get things rolling within the enterprise -- particularly if there is resistance or benign neglect on the part of management to new ways of...
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- 'Private cloud' = just another buzzword for on-premise datacenter?
- 'Private cloud' = just another buzzword for on-premise datacenter?Sooo.. wrong.Private clouds are exactly the same as the public cloud with the exception of its location. While a datacenter is part of the private cloud, the cloud itself is way more. It provides remote apps, services such as e-mail, web sires,...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-28
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