We all deal with data on a day-to-day basis. We handle data as knowledge workers, data crunchers, data creators or consumers in our daily routines. And, I am not even talking about your work yet. You pick up your newspaper in the morning (yes, some of us still do!) and scan through the stocks. You are the consumer of the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]