Many of you have been waiting for this: ARIS 9 is available as of today. The newest ARIS release combines 20 years of process improvement experience with the latest technology trends of cloud, mobile, social collaboration and big data/information. ARIS 9 takes a quantum leap forward in process design, publishing, analysis and collaborative improvement. Here’s a summary of the highlights: [...]

Why is integration more important today than ever before? The answer lies in the way technology forces are reshaping IT. In fact, today we are witnessing a perfect storm of technology trends. These trends are collectively becoming known as the “four forces” of mobile, social, cloud and big data, and they are creating an opportunity for companies to leverage the proliferation [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 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 [...]