Double-degreed, techno-savvy, mobile-phone-dependent young professionals now entering the workforce will expect a totally different experience from what your business apps deliver today. At a recent event, Gartner analyst, Val Sribar broke it all down, explaining that next-generation business apps will have to look and act like consumer applications. That’s right. That means your apps will need to meet a whole new set [...]

The nexus of the cloud, social media, mobile and big data will drive business apps to be more like consumer apps. How will you deliver these next-generation business apps? Will you build a brick wall around development or welcome user input? Some IT managers say they spend their jobs today preventing people from creating their own apps. But that’s the [...]

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, [...]