I’m probably not connecting all the dots here, bear with me. If you have a mobile strategy, you’re going to be using API’s. It’s the “only way*” to support the breadth of devices to natively access corporate digital assets. If you are already delivering API’s, and delivering them across different teams/businesses to enable a mobile strategy, why not just expose [...]

For those of you who don’t know me personally, or know me well enough, I seem to have a talent for metaphor. In fact, I think one of the things that I do best is explain complex ideas in ways others can understand, and so that they realize how the idea is relevant to them. While technically not a metaphor, [...]

There was a day, a couple of years ago now, where I was let down by a process. I had forgotten the story until yesterday. And, when I shared it with my wife, her first respnonse was “yeah, we were really sad about how that worked out”. Even marking the timing of the story speaks to how we relate the [...]

How does a company leverage the same energy seen in the consumer space to drive innovation inside the enterprise? Why couldn’t there be a “corporate instagram-like success”? Why can’t a corporate enterprise service bus excite imagination the way Twitter has? Often its the people way down in the trenches that have great ideas about improvements to the business. Other times, [...]

  Do you know iKnow? iKnow is: “a process visibility solution featuring real-time performance and cycle-time monitoring with ‘right-time’ alerts when transactions and trends are outside measured norms” In smaller words, it’s a way to know what’s happening in your supply chain with enough information and context to fix problems and then prevent them from recurring. Need even smaller words? [...]

It’s not the devices your employees are bringing that you should be worried about: It’s the expectations they’re bringing that should keep you up at night. (My sincere apologies to our US readers to whom I’ve disturbed just before a holiday.)

In the beginning there were enterprise applications. And, they needed to connect to each other. Integration companies were created, and things were good. Over the last 20 years, integration grew to encompass more than just pure inter-connectivity. It grew to include: data, events, and processes. Integration vendors called the integration piece a “bus” and loaded the bus with MDM (Master [...]

I had the opportunity to attend the CITEworld conference on Consumerization of IT here in NYC a few weeks ago. It was a really well run day, and wanted to share a few things I learned. The conference really impacted how I think about the opportunity in the application integration space. Mobile is bigger than I realized. A lot bigger. Yet, [...]