Over the years, Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) has been both revered and maligned. It seems SOA is still in search of its rightful and respected place in some organizations. Is SOA dead? Certainly not. Misunderstood, yes. Let’s get the facts from the innovators who are achieving great things with SOA. Over the next few weeks, I’ll elaborate on the surprising [...]

With SOA success stories being shared at analyst conferences, in customer conference rooms and even at your office water cooler, why are organizations still struggling to realize the full innovative power of SOA? With CIOs focused more and more on the business and less on less on technology, could it be that SOA is still considered just web services? Not [...]

When I joined Software AG in June, ProcessWorld was already in full swing. I was so excited about all the new and innovative programs and content we would be announcing at ProcessWorld, I immediately wondered how we could get our customers involved? I wanted our customers to know how much they helped drive our innovations at ProcessWorld. What could we [...]

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 [...]

When you look at the successful technology projects and initiatives you have been involved with, can you identify the common threads?  Innovations, vision, strategy, metrics, have all proven their way onto the map. But what about the people and processes involved on the road to success? So many times, these important elements are overlooked. This is why I found it [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]