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Deliver Immediate Value Through Service-Oriented Architecture: Service-Oriented Architecture Is as Much a Business Innovation as It Is a Technological Innovation

Service-Oriented Architecture is as much a business innovation as it is a technological innovation. It has the potential to erase the barriers that separate the business and technology sides of any organization, dramatically improving productivity, and increasing shareholder value. This can be accomplished with a relatively modest, incremental investment in...

Tags: Innovation, Technological Innovation, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2006-09-01

Separating "consumer rights" from copyright

My condolences to those affected by yesterday's terrorist attacks in London. Funny that words escape a guy who regularly runs well past editorial limits, but my thoughts go out to those affected by this tragedy. I've been a busy bee this week, spending Microsoft dollars on a business trip to...

Tags: technological innovation, content company

Blog posts 2005-07-07

Additional Resources

10 technological changes in 10 technological years

retitle it15 Technological Changes in 15 Years... and even with that you'd be off. Pluto was reclassified... this is not a technological innovation, even its classification name already existed.15 years ago Forest Gump came out, and even it was talking about Apple being big then, when it was set......

Tags: DVD, floppy disk, hard drive

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

10 ways to evaluate your IT management software

Does your helpdesk work for you or do you work for your helpdesk? Saar Bitner of SysAid Technologies tells how to manage you IT management software. Commentary - Choosing the right IT management software solution is a strategic decision that requires the careful planning and consideration of every IT...

Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, Software Solution, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, IT management, software, Saar Bitner SysAid Technologies, Special to ZDNet, Saar Bitner SysAid Technologies, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-05

Will OpenSolaris survive Oracle?

We can only hope so! It would make a much better back end than what linux has to offer. Solaris has always been a solid performer and is a real UNIX, not some hacked up clone like linux. The best option for Oracle would be to ditch linux...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Sun Solaris, Oracle Corp., OpenSolaris, Open Solaris

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Bright Shadow 1.2.3 (Windows)

Game Story For over a century, the civilization of Luciena has known the mysterious properties of Soul Power. Soul power exists within every facet of the universe, in all sentient beings, and can be manipulated for power, benevolence, or evil. Lucienans used this power to create a peaceful society. However,...

Tags: Society, Microsoft Windows, Gamepot USA, Soul Power, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-26

If open source were a monopoly

As always thoughtful, Dana. But there's a related problem..Open Source projects are notoriously bad a promoting the unpopular decisions. As such you can see open source as a form of populism.If someone wants to do a clean break - the sort of break which move technology forward - you will...

Tags: Open Source Project, open source, fork, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

Move over Enterprise 2.0, it's now Social Business Design

Given the relatively friendly pounding I took over my Enterprise 2.0 - what a crock post, it's gratifying to see that it has stirred some interesting interpretations and thoughts on the topic. That's always good and especially pleasing when one considers that most blog posts are the equivalent of digital...

Tags: BPR, Enterprise 2.0, Re-engineering, Cohen, Oliver Marks, Business Process Engineering, Organizational Structure, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Human Resources, It Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Hey, Amazon! Are you stupid?

Edtech, or Googletech?Chris, is it possible for you to write an article where you are not excessively gushing about Google? We get the point already. For you, the sun rises and sets with Google. Google is master of the universe. Google can do no harm.As a...

Tags: Strategy, Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-13

McKinsey's 'Business and Web 2.0' Report and the new Consulting Landscape

McKinsey, the venerable management consulting company, has produced their second piece of 'Web 2.0 in business' research this year. This is arguably a sign of the rapid maturation of the 2.0 technology and associated (and I'd argue more important) change management sector: the pricey consulting company...

Tags: Web, McKinsey & Co., Consulting, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-02

Social Media Revolution?

Here's another YouTube video - 'Social Media Revolution' - conflating a lot of stats in order to make a case for 'Social Media' being the 'biggest shift since the industrial revolution'. Web 2.0...The Machine is Us/ing Us started this style of delivery and...

Tags: Social Media, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-08-16

Churchill Club podcast: An Evening with Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officer of the United States

In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, Aneesh Chopra, CTO of the U.S., talks technology. He was appointed by President Barack Obama as the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer in April 2009, with the mandate to promote technological innovation to help the country meet its most urgent priorities...

Tags: Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-05

A look at On2 Technologies and why Google wants it

It's not very often that Google makes an acquisition and the target inspires a collective "who?" But that's what happened when the search giant bought On2 Technologies, a penny stock trading in obscurity on the American Stock Exchange, for 60 cents a share. And unless you've followed the wonderful world...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., On2 Technologies, Video, H.264, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-05

Hey, kids! The days of free music are over.

Hey, kids! The days of free music are over.See this? Tiniest violin in the world. Playing just for the RIAA.Record labels and their industry kicking-dog the RIAA can go and do an unmentionable to themselves. They have been a parasite between musicians and fans for far too...

Tags: Free Music, music, MP3

Discussion threads 2009-08-01

Bolden confirmed as NASA chief

While the Senate Judiciary Committee grills Judge Sonia Sotomayor over her speeches if not her decisions, the full Senate confirmed President Obama's choice to head NASA, former astronaut Frank Bolden, The Register reports. In accepting, he called for a renewed commitment to "technological leadership": Today, we...

Tags: NASA, U.S. Senate, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Professional Development, Management, Career, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-16

Oracle's Fusion middleware master plan starts coming together

Oracle on Wednesday launched its Fusion 11g middleware family and the effort is aimed at linking the technological underpinnings of all of the company's acquired applications, owning the market, creating one fundamental software stack for the enterprise, laying the foundation for a cloud strategy as well as a few other...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Chances, Miko Matsumura, Middleware, Programming Languages, Java, Enterprise Software, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-01

Firefox 3.5: Well positioned as mid-sized browser gorilla

Firefox 3.5: Well positioned as mid-sized browser gorillaFirefox 3.5: Well positioned as mid-sized browser gorillaFinally! It has been released. Now to download and install it. I'll be the first one at work with FF 3.5.Thank god I do not have the same attitudeRegarding your comment "I see no need...

Tags: Adrian, browser gorilla, Firefox 3.5, mid-sized browser gorilla, Mozilla Firefox, Opera Software ASA, Web browser, Well-Positioned

Discussion threads 2009-06-30

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...

Tags: Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Futurist pinpoints world's top ten long-term challenges

With the growth of unpredictability comes forecasts that are harder to believe. But good leaders plan for a wide range of scenarios that are based on trends we see today. In his recent commencement address to the 2009 graduating class at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Tory, NY,...

Tags: Schwartz, Leadership, Transportation, Manufacturing, Management, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-06-21

Private sector necessary to achieve infrastructure growth, U.S. CTO says

Private sector necessary to achieve infrastructure growth, U.S. CTO saysCap & TradeYes, and the Cap & Trade errr. Tax & Trade will destroy the economy as well.Good luck...Private investors just got slaughtered over ChryslerAnd you think anyone of them would be dumb enough to get involved w/ government any more?RE:...

Tags: Vertical industries, infrastructure growth, government

Discussion threads 2009-06-11