CASCON Workshop: Accelerate Service Integration In Your BPM and SOA Applications
I’m attending a workshop at the first morning of CASCON, the conference on software research hosted by IBM Canada. There’s quite a bit of good work done at the IBM Toronto software lab, and this annual conference gives them a chance to engage the academic and corporate community to present this research. The focus of […]
Connecting the Dots Between the Cloud and Enterprise 2.0
Yesterday in Portland at OSCON’s Cloud Summit I spoke about major emerging trends in business, IT, and the Web. Specifically, I explored how Enterprise 2.0, Cloud Computing, and something known as Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) have converged on top of the same “problem space” to become the essential fabric for how we solve the business problems […]
Enterprise Software Strategy
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TIBCO BPM Now and Future: iProcess, Meet ActiveMatrix BPM
The session that I’ve been waiting all day for is with Roger King, who runs BPM product management and strategy for TIBCO, where he discussed the new ActiveMatrix BPM and TIBCOSilver BPM offerings for on-premise and cloud deployments. They’ve been working on this for a couple of years, and obviously keen to get it out […]
TIBCO Products Update
Tom Laffey, EVP of Products and Technology, gave us an update at the analyst session yesterday on their new product releases (embargoed until today), but started with an interesting timeline of the their acquisitions. Unlike some companies, who make acquisitions just to remove a competitor from the market, TIBCO appears to have made some thoughtful […]
TIBCO’s Enterprise 3.0 Vision
Murray Rode, TIBCO’s COO, started the TIBCO analyst day with their vision and strategy. The vision: Enterprise 3.0. Srsly. They seem to have co-opted the Enterprise 1.0/2.0 terms to mean what they want it to mean rather than the more accepted views: they define Enterprise 2.0, for example, as everything from the 80’s to 2009, […]
The Enterprise Data Cloud: Why Information Power Is The Future of Business
As organizations take a close hard look at cloud computing and how it can help them with their businesses, some are coming away unimpressed by the maturity or with concerns about risk, control, and privacy. Yet others are beginning to…
The Enterprise App Store And Self-Service IT: How SOA, Saas, And Mashups Will Thrive
There’s been some useful discussion recently about using the app store model for distributing enterprise software and services within organizations. Up until now, most IT needs in the majority of businesses have been met largely through one-size-fits-all delivery of solutions…
A New Vision for SOA Governance: A Focus on the Social Aspect
It almost a truism that cultural and organizational factors — these include politics, information silos, “tribal” interests, and effective change management — generally determine the success or failure of a major IT initiative in most organizations today. While “big bang” strategic projects and infrastructure upgrades are notoriously fraught with peril, particularly when it comes to […]
Fixing IT in the cloud computing era
The reality of cloud computing as it exists today already offers significant potential to IT departments that want to cut costs, lighten their infrastructure footprint, and adopt agile new technologies. Whether it’s private clouds or public ones, all signs point towards it being one of the top new approaches for enterprise IT for 2010. It’s […]
