It’s happened again. Even after redefining the EA tools market in March 2011, leading industry analyst firm, Gartner, positions Software AG in the Leaders Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture tools. “In this Magic Quadrant, the Leaders have a broad range of capabilities to support EA, combined with the ability to deliver these capabilities to a diverse group of stakeholders. Although each [...]

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 [...]

For the past year, leading analysts have said SOA has become a de-facto standard for all new application architectures. Which makes it hard to believe just 5 years ago, most people didn’t understand the value of SOA or how they can use it. A similar shift is unfolding today in the world of APIs. APIs are already driving significant new [...]

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 [...]

We all recognize and appreciate  highly optimized processes from online retailers like Amazon, Overstock and Zappos. These companies make process management seem easy, ensuring a shopping experience you can count on. This got me thinking, there’s a lot we can learn from these seemingly simple daily processes we take for granted. These processes are everywhere from having your car inspected [...]

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, [...]

ProcessWorld 2012 is one of our biggest global events where this year we hosted 1000 registrants from more than 30 countries! Every session was jam-packed. The excitement for the innovation showcase premiering  our 9.0 release for mobile, social, cloud and big data was contagious. And our evening event at Universal Studios Super Hero Island was an exciting time for our customers [...]

  Driving innovation at enterprises has always been a tremendous challenge.  There’s always hard to extend legacy systems, disparate systems to be integrated and monolithic applications to be changed. Doing so is painstaking and time consuming work, but the business side of the house is nevertheless focused on seeing immediate return on investments. Exacerbating this situation is the fact that [...]