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, [...]

Two centuries back, the industrial revolution reshaped manufacturing. Today, another transformation is underway. It’s powered by big data, and it touches every aspect of the manufacturing process, from materials sourcing and assembly lines to sales support and maintenance. The potential payoff from harnessing big data insights is enormous, but so are the new challenges that manufacturers are facing around data volume, [...]

My favorite part of my job is working with customers. I admire their vision, strategy and approach to solving complex problems. Each customer challenge is unique and different. I work with some of the largest European companies and government agencies, who’s application landscape contain intricate business processes designed to solve various challenges. With the release of ARIS 9.0 only weeks [...]

Several weeks ago, I wrote a Primer on API management and I have received tons of great feedback and questions from blog readers and colleagues in the field. It’s great to see people are finding API management especially relevant to their mobile and cloud strategy.  My colleague David Bressler (has written several posts on this topic – see Enterprise API Trifecta) and has experience addressing API [...]

Every vendor likes to claim that their product is the most superior in the market. When it comes to ESBs (Enterprise Service Bus), it is no different either. Every ESB vendor claims that their product is indeed the fastest. As a consumer, your question to a statement like that should be “How?”. With the application infrastructure, within an enterprise, changing [...]

Will 2013 be the year of disruptive technologies? Is now the time when the ‘Nexus of Forces’ come together to change the way we work and the way organizations do business? Have you asked yourself, can your organization survive if it’s not digital? According to IDC, for “the past several years, the IT industry’s transition to the 3rd Platform, built [...]

With annual revenues in online gaming approaching $100 billion, competition is heating up and it’s getting harder to hook players into a game. Today’s players demand real-time responsiveness, more immersive graphics, and ever-more-exciting interactions with fellow gamers. That poses a dual challenge for game makers, who must pack larger and larger volumes of data — Big Data — into their games, while  [...]

In the last few months, I have seen many companies run process improvement initiatives completely disconnected from their Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Management projects. They don’t just use different tools but also set up disconnected teams making it difficult to deliver a sustainable GRC project that’s not mapped to processes and business objectives. The Deutsches Forschungszentrum fur Kunstilice Intelligenz [...]