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 [...]

SOA is the secret sauce to building great mobile apps.  Loosely coupled, policy driven SOA services help establish a flexible architecture that address the most critical challenges of implementing enterprise mobile apps. For instance, you can uniformly enforce security policies across all types of mobile apps in a reliable and consistent manner.  Using SOA services helps accelerate time-to-market for new [...]

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 [...]

I have written a  few posts on how in-memory solutions are being adopted in industries such as financial services, travel & logistics, and big pharma to overcome many kinds of Big Data challenges. Here I’d like to share an independent report from a leading analyst, Aberdeen Group, that reinforces the view that in-memory computing infrastructure is essential for successful Big [...]

Big Data has been a hot topic throughout 2012. With 2013 fast approaching,  we sat down with Terracotta CEO Robin Gilthorpe to get his predictions for the top trends that will drive Big Data activity in the coming year. His top five predictions (explained in more detail in this video) are: Big Data has to be fast data. Enterprises will profit from Big [...]

IT Purchasing Goes Social, an insightful study worth a read. (or download the infographic for the quick summary) What I found interesting about this study done by Forrester, Research Now and Linkedin was that it proves IT decision makers are influenced by social media and peer networks when it comes to making real buying decisions. Something we’ve believed in for [...]

The majority of innovative applications are focused on leveraging the new computing models – mobile, cloud, social and information or Big Data. We recently polled over 200 architects and developers and 67% of those polled identified mobile as a priority for their organization, 47% identified Big Data, 40% identified cloud, and 16% identified social applications. In fact, according to Gartner, [...]

I am very excited to announce the ‘Intelligent Guide to Enterprise BPM‘ is now available in ebook format on the Kindle. We published the hard copy book back in June but now you can read how to create a sustainable Enterprise BPM program on your kindle. On the road to Enterprise BPM success, you would ideally: Start by describing your [...]