Inside the BriefcaseLoraine Lawson just posted a thought-provoking piece, asking if SOAP is “holding back business.” SOAP versus REST was an inside-the-datacenter developers’ debate, but there’s more at stake these days, she points out.
Rumour has it that several well known publishing brands have moved from their traditional print versions into online-only entities in recent times. For these reasons I ended up surfing for open source publishing topics this week.
I just wrote a post about the importance of getting senior executives on board with business intelligence initiatives. Good advice, you may think, but how do you get the execs interested enough in BI that they’ll be willing to champion it?
Tweet Mobility. CRM these days is all about mobility – oh, and social networking. Mobility and social networking. And cloud. Can’t forget cloud. Imagine somebody checking their Facebook from an iPhone or iPad on the subway and you have seen the future of CRM, and it works. More and more businesses are taking their CRM […]
Tweet Ever since 2009 when NIST published its first definition of cloud computing there has been a promise of community clouds, and now we finally have a second one in the financial services market, thanks to NYSE Technologies. The IT arm of NYSE Euronext announced beta of Capital Markets Community Platform, its cloud computing offering this […]
Tweet That was the main question explored at the latest panel discussion on all things SOA just posted by Boris Lublinsky over at the InfoQ site. (It has Jim World Wide Webber participating, so you know it’s going to be interesting.) There was general agreement that while the hype and spotlights on SOA have diminished […]
Enterprise content management (ECM) and business process management (BPM), while separate technologies, often overlap. As a result, some organizations struggle with understanding whether they need an ECM solution, a BPM solution or both. This article takes a look at the options.
It was a huge issue when companies first started investing in SOA. At first, everyone embraced SOAP, but then REST became the “it” architectural style, particularly for the Web. By then, many enterprises were invested in SOAP, thanks in large part to Microsoft’s SharePoint which, by the way, now supports REST Web services.
That’s the word from the Aberdeen Group, which conducted a survey of 149 supply chain professionals in March and April 2011. The report, “Business Intelligence Command and Control Center for the Chief Supply Chain Officer,” looked at the challenges enterprises face in managing their complex, global business operations. The report also identified the top strategic actions that top companies are taking to operate more efficiently through business intelligence.
Tweet Well, that was interesting. Just weeks after Microsoft announced it’s shelling out billions to acquire Skype, the VoIP provider drops support for the open source Asterisk telephony system. Skype insists the parting of ways was underway well before Microsoft made its move, but suspicion still fills the air. Read more…
Tweet Blog Post bu Geoffrey James I don’t write much about CRM in this blog, but I recently had a conversation with Brad Wilson, who is the general manager of Microsoft CRM. Brad knows the CRM business up and down, so I thought it would worthwhile to post some highlights of our conversation. Click here […]
Tweet Just how much market share can the Linux Desktop claim? The debate’s a familiar one, perhaps even a tired one. But recently Pingdom published a list of the 20 countries in which the Linux desktop enjoys the most popularity. Naturally, that list was quickly criticized from multiple angles. So what’s Linux’s true penetration? “In […]
ZDNet colleague Dion Hinchcliffe just posted a piece on the lackluster reception seen so far for enterprise app stores. The enterprise app store — a facility that extends the principles of service orientation and private cloud to a tangible front end for business users — is now being offered as a capability by some vendors. It takes Apple’s runaway best-selling App Store concept and distills it as a highly graphic resources for vetting and approving enterprise services, integrates with or functions as a registry/repository, and makes it simple and easy for business users and developers to locate existing services.
ven though much of the discussion of cloud computing is focused on technology, I believe that the most important innovations on cloud platforms are going to happen at a business level. So here at the SIIA All About the Cloud conference today in San Francisco, one of the sessions I’d been especially looking forward to was a presentation by Bill McNee, CEO of analyst group Saugatuck Technology, about ‘The Rise of Cloud IT and Cloud Business’. As McNee put it as he opened the presentation:
Tweet Cloud computing is made up of a variety of layered elements, starting at the most basic physical layer of storage and server infrastructure and working up through the application and network layers. The cloud can be further divided into different implementation models based on whether it’s created internally, outsourced or a combination of the […]
Tweet Remember as a kid when you opened a present–some new gizmo with flashing lights, cool sounds and maybe a little action–only to find those three little words that extracted every bit of wind from your fully inflated sails? Batteries Not Included. And, remember how frustrating it was to find D-cell batteries on a Sunday? […]
Tweet With so much turbulence going on in the FOSS world these days — let’s not even mention the “U” word this week, shall we? — it’s always nice when a straightforward and unambiguous piece of good news comes along. That, fortunately, was just what happened last week during the Open Source Business Conference in […]
The proposed solution, Federated Identity, is another candidate SOA pattern submitted and being considered by the SOA patterns community process. If approved, it will be added to the established SOA patterns outlined at SOApatterns.org and in the book SOA Design Patterns (coordinated by Thomas Erl).
Tweet So Google’s Chromebooks finally made their long-awaited debut last week, complete with interesting leasing options for the business, government and educational markets. As Samsung and Acer put the finishing touches on their devices, the question on many tongues now is how these new machines will fit into the already-competitive mobile computing market. Read more […]
Just when you think it is safe to put your embarrassing college photos in the cloud, we learn that some cloud providers have the ability to look at your files: “Dropbox now asserts that it can decrypt and pass your data on to a third party if Dropfox feels it needs to do so, in order to protect its property rights.”
Still, process is what runs businesses and Business Process Management (BPM) has arguably gained a fair degree of traction among IT departments that want to gain “visibility into the status of daily tasks”, as the BPM vendors like to put it.
Tweet Blog by Mary Jo Foley On May 18, both Microsoft and its cloud rival Amazon made dueling announcements involving SAP and their respective cloud strategies. The difference? Microsoft’s SAP announcement is full of “future plans,” while Amazon is offering certain SAP wares today via the Amazon Web Services platform. Amazon and SAP announced at […]
Tweet Yammer Tuesday announced three new products to integrate its service more fully with other enterprise applications. The company, which has 2 million verified users, 19% of which are paying customers, launched a feature called Activity Stream API which connects Yammer to third-party enterprise applications in CRM, finance, sales, and the like. With the API, […]
Tweet Blog post by Paul Greenberg I’ve known NetSuite for many, many years. ‘Twas back in 2004, I met Mei Li, their ultra-dynamic SVP of Corporate Marketing, who has become one of my closest friends. She introduced me at that time to Zach Nelson, the very charismatic and always well liked NetSuite CEO and co-founder, […]
Tweet Parallels recently launched a new version of its popular Parallels server virtualization software for Apple hardware, but this latest update is designed to work with Mac Mini servers. With this release, Parallels still claims the title of having the only server virtualization solution optimized for Apple server hardware. Click here to read more of […]
Tweet In the life of every SOA-enabled or cloud service, there are 11 key stages that can help mean the difference between the service getting lost as shelfware in some forgotten directory, versus being the key to greater business agility. In their latest book, SOA Governance: Governing Shared Services On-Premise and in the Cloud, Thomas […]
Cloud pushed SOA from the ‘egghead shadows’ to become the global de facto enterprise architectu
Tweet Google’s big pitch for enterprise adoption of its Chromebook revolves around labor savings, easy implementation and cloud-based processes, but your mileage—and the math to get there—will vary. At Google’s I/O conference Wednesday all the talk was about the Chromebook and the company’s browser-based Chrome OS. I’d argue that the Chromebook will have a rough […]
Tweet Of all the many winning advantages Linux has in its favor, security is surely one of the more widely known examples. Why else, indeed, would we see security experts in mainstream publications recommending it over Windows for online banking purposes? That, indeed, is part of the reason it was so disappointing to see Linux […]
In a perfect world, the sales process for an open source business would be as simple as answering the phone and taking orders. Unfortunately, reality is seldom perfect, and the open source sales process faces a number of challenges.
