Posted on October 30, 2007 by Judith
I dragged myself to Redmond last night to attend Microsoft’s Fifth annual SOA and Business Process Management (BMP) conference. There are about 1,000 participants. Having watched Microsoft’s strategy evolve over many years, it is important to take a step back and see how the company is positioning its SOA and BMP strategies.
I will write [...]
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Posted on October 25, 2007 by Judith
Apple has always been a company that prided itself on innovation. In reality, Apple has been really good at taking a technology and creating products that are usable and accessible. Take the example of the Macintosh. Apple took the innovation of a graphical user interface pioneered by Xerox and turned it into [...]
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Posted on October 18, 2007 by Judith
Ok, so you never thought that Master Data Management (MDM) was cool. Well I just returned from IBM’s Information On Demand conference and found that IBM has gotten MDM fever in a big way. In fact, they were handling out cool MDM buttons. Now, MDM has been around for a long time. Customers are [...]
Filed under: IBM, Master Data Management, information management | Tagged: EII, IBM, Master Data Management, single view of the customer | No Comments »
Posted on October 12, 2007 by Judith
It has been quite a week. First, SAP sets its sights on Business Objects and now for about the same amount of money, Oracle is ready to swallow BEA. Indeed, it looks like the world of enterprise software is continuing to consolidate. So, what do I think? I actually think that Oracle’s decision [...]
Filed under: BEA, IBM, Oracle, Tibco, service oriented architecture, software industry | Tagged: BEA, business process management, IBM, middleware, Oracle, SOA, Tibco | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 10, 2007 by Judith
The first time I made contact with Business Objects was in 1992 when I was hired by a venture capitalist to conduct due diligence on Business Objects. At that time the company was still emerging. At that time Business Objects was a tiny Paris-based that offered a windows based reporting product designed for use [...]
Filed under: business intelligence | Tagged: business intelligence, Business Objects, Information Builders, Oracle, SAP, SAS Institute | 2 Comments »
Posted on October 4, 2007 by Judith
I was invited to a dinner with some of the management team last night. This was the third year in a row that the company had held a little get together for key customers, IT analysts, and members of the press. In previous years, CEO, Marc Benioff himself to lead the festivities. [...]
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Posted on October 3, 2007 by Judith
I was invited to speak at a government SOA conference. I was asked to speak because of our team’s best selling book on the topic called Service Oriented Architecture for Dummies (published by Wiley last November). I wasn’t sure what to expect. Does the government love Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)? So, here is [...]
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