Hola! Happy New Year to all of you!! Have you made any new year resolutions? Not the personal types like doing a set of 100 push-ups or cleaning up your carpet or doing the latter while doing the former! I was thinking more of the corporate variety a la goals / objectives for 2013 for your organization. If you haven’t [...]

Before you ask, let me answer. Yes, cloudwashing is an industry-accepted word now! It is a term that signifies any marketing technique adopted by a vendor to sell you any product by associating the word “cloud” to it. So, as a wary buyer, it is important for you to have a thorough knowledge of the things to ask to make [...]

As I am about to attend the Gartner AADI conference in glitzy Las Vegas, I read through the latest predictions report from Gartner on Application Integration. The report is titled “Predicts 2013: Application Integration” dated 14-November-2012 and is written by a few of my favorite analysts – Benoit Lheureux, Massimo Pezzini, Jess Thompson et al. Now, I am a person [...]

As the IT industry evolves each year, so do the technology buzzwords within the industry. Application Integration has been called many different things over the last few decades. The evolution of middleware and various integration patterns have given a total paradigm shift to what application integration is all about today. Then again, with the advent of a lot of newer [...]

A couple of years ago, I was visiting one of my customers, who was a large semiconductor manufacturer based in the Bay Area. I met with their IT team to give them an update of our product roadmap. As a part of that exchange, I asked them to share their architecture so that I could understand the level of maturity [...]

This is a true incident which happened a few months ago at an upcoming Bay Area-based wireless device manufacturer. I was there to meet with their IT director to discuss their enterprise integration strategy. They had recently acquired a SaaS CRM to replace their on-premise CRM application. They seemed happy and content about their decision. The IT director could not [...]

This is every IT manager’s worst nightmare. You walk into the office. Everyone in your department looks gloomy. The mood in the air is a bit unsettling. As you work through the various worst case scenarios in your head, you open up your email inbox. And right there, at the top, is an email from the CIO titled “Adopt cloud [...]