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 Everyone wants to lower their capital expenditures and increase operational efficiency - it's a sign of the times. The economy of the past 12 - 18 months has forced all organizations to do more with less and become more efficient. While everyone can identify with the request to do more...Sep. 30, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,453 |
 On Thursday, September 10th, 2009, I moderated a panel at the 1105 Group’s Enterprise Architecture Conference in Washington, DC entitled, “SOA Goes Mainstream – An Industry and Government Roadmap.” On the panel we had two Federal government agency representatives and two industry repr...Sep. 18, 2009 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,205 |
 Yesterday a friend of mine was asking me what I've been doing lately in my spare time. When I mentioned that I'd been doing a lot of messing around with Windows Azure, he was naturally curious. After explaining what Azure is, he asked me what the difference was between Windows Azure, a...Sep. 12, 2009 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,357 |
 Cloud computing is becoming a ubiquitous concept. It has mass-market implications for the technology industry, and it is advancing at speeds rarely seen with any major technological evolution.
As a business leader, do you know why cloud computing is important to you? What parts of y...Aug. 28, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,694 |
 Thank you to everyone who came out for Leaving Lotus last week. Your interest and participation at the event is a clear indication to us of the growing demand for alternative solutions in the enterprise. We’d also like to thank Google for hosting us and Binary Tree and Ferris [...Aug. 18, 2009 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 716 |
 At least two big IT names, IBM and Cisco, will be headlining a trial by Dutch utility, Nuon, to put in a smart grid for 500 homes in Amsterdam. As part of the trial, 500 households in Amsterdam will get smart meters and home energy management solutions to optimise their energy usage.
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 Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) presents a challenge to software marketing people like none other in recent history. On the one hand, SOA has been the top enterprise software bandwagon to jump on for the last four years or so, but on the other hand, many vendors have struggled to t...Jul. 23, 2009 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,280 |
 Loose coupling presents architectural challenges that are at the heart of planning and implementing the SOA infrastructure. Building the Service abstraction presents a simplified representation to the business but requires additional efforts under the covers to make that abstraction a ...Jul. 18, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,424 |
 As part of my job, I help customers to select the appropriate software to either fulfill a need or as a component of a larger solution. Fulfilling this role means comparing similar software offerings and selecting the best fit. The challenge in this goal is to map the vendor offering...Jul. 17, 2009 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,648 |
 IBM's experiment with group authorship for Cloud Computing interoperability is starting to pay off. Earlier today, Doug Tidwell posted the first draft of a Cloud Computing Use Cases White Paper produced extensively via a new Google group created to help define the various use case req...Jul. 5, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,286 |
 Systinet’s founding CTO and my friend Anne Thomas Manes pronounced the demise of SOA a few weeks ago. Honestly, SOA lost its meaning for me on the day when good, old Solaris became the “SOA operating system”. But is SOA dead or not? I don’t believe so but I think that Anne and others a...Apr. 25, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 931 |
Time is money in any industry, but for life sciences companies a single day of having a new drug on the market can be worth hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions, of dollars. And that money, in addition to its obvious effect on the balance sheet, funds research into new treatments ... Nov. 26, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 12,844 |
Whether they produce cameras, equipment to make semiconductors, plasma TVs, medical equipment, printers, or cell phones, electronics companies share an all-encompassing requirement; they must continually bring more innovative products to market faster than ever before. Oct. 26, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 13,491 |
Banks are facing increasing pressure to reinvent and expand their businesses. They need to respond to increasing regulatory and security requirements, expectations for new levels of customer service, the broader globalization of markets, and price pressure on their services. May. 5, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 14,678 |
A trend begun on factory floors in an effort to replace low- and medium-skilled blue-collar workers so companies could save money, outsourcing has recently become a heated election-year issue. While it is difficult to hide plant closings and relocate their operations, it takes only a f... May. 5, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 13,197 Replies: 1 |
The IBM WebSphere family of products can be a lot of different things to different people, and – just like any family – each member has its own strengths and weaknesses. Jan. 30, 2004 07:52 AM EST Reads: 14,962 |
As the old saying goes, 'Those who can, do; those who can't, teach.' Well, there's a bit of such crass finger-pointing going on inside each corporate IT operations and development staff every day. Jan. 23, 2004 04:58 PM EST Reads: 11,588 |
The 'P' word surely gets thrown around a lot these days. It's time to determine what's real and what's not - and for the sake of this article, let's keep our focus on enterprise, or corporate, portals. Dec. 24, 2003 12:39 PM EST Reads: 11,061 Replies: 2 |
As a closing thought, let's consider our jobs and how to protect them. There is a lot of instability in today's software industry, and the American sector is losing its competitive edge. Nov. 24, 2003 11:48 AM EST Reads: 26,122 |
Lotus Notes certainly was one of the most successful rapid application development platforms of the '90s. The speed at which you could develop workflow applications to streamline your business processes was simply unparalleled. Oct. 23, 2003 09:56 AM EDT Reads: 11,421 |
At this year's annual gathering of the tribe at JavaOne in San Francisco, Sun announced its intention to increase the number of Java developers from 3 million to 10 million. Sep. 24, 2003 10:10 AM EDT Reads: 12,951 Replies: 1 |
In the past, corporate intranets were built from the ground up with various tools and technologies. Some companies hoped to establish a solution that would not only address a current problem but be flexible enough to handle future expansion. Jul. 23, 2003 11:09 AM EDT Reads: 15,802 |
Information that is readily available to the right people at the right time, and that enables them to act quickly and decisively, is a crucial requirement of enterprises that intend to grow and remain profitable. The intelligent delivery of information must obtain maturity levels consi... Jun. 12, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,914 |
A few months back, in this very spot, I wrote that in 2003 we would see an uptick in IT spending. Then I asked the question, 'Where will the money be spent?' Some read this as welcome news foreshadowing the revitalization of the IT sector; others viewed it as wishful thinking. Clearly ... Apr. 15, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,637 |
Organizations have traditionally viewed the management of digital identities as a necessary expense. But now those same organizations see it as a strategic imperative, something that will help them succeed by adding business value. Strategic security initiatives, like identity and acce... Mar. 21, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 13,724 |
Entity beans have been much maligned lately, largely for their inability to scale and difficulty to develop and maintain. However, there remain some compelling reasons to consider using entity beans to persist data in a J2EE application. For example, survivability of entity beans, wher... Feb. 3, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 11,921 |
Analysts and suppliers are all predicting a big upturn in tech spending during 2003, which is good news for the industry as a whole. It is certainly welcome news for software vendors and developers, who have been hit hard over the past year. It's also good news for the economy as a who... Jan. 8, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 10,972 Replies: 1 |
Choosing a technology vendor today may seem like a game of chance. With many 'dot-coms' turned into 'dot-bombs,' laid-off employees have turned to consulting as a way to earn a living. Now, I do not begrudge anyone earning a living. I consider myself to be a consummate capitalist. But ... Dec. 13, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 10,165 |
Sports cars are typically measured by how fast they go from zero to sixty. But is that really the best measurement? Would a Honda Accord with a 500 hp V8 be a better sports car than a Porsche 911 Turbo? Obviously not. It takes a well-rounded vehicle to achieve this status - handling, b... Nov. 15, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 10,038 |
Companies confront more challenges today than ever before. The business environment of the Internet-driven economy is more volatile, demanding, and complex. Given the events of the past year, businesses uncertain about the financial future have been reluctant to increase their workforc... Sep. 25, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,883 |
Faster deployment. Who would say no? It's the dream of every project manager, business line manager, and CIO to get software out in the shortest time, at the lowest cost. However, it's an ideal that is rarely met. Aug. 21, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,691 |
There are some undeniable truths about the state of IT operations today and their direction for the future. The recent recessionary environment, coupled with IT talent shortages that already existed, has turned the IT operations group into an embattled organization - greater and greate... Jul. 31, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,525 |
The portal product market has matured significantly since its birth in 1998. In the early days, 'pure-play' vendors provided the only options for enterprises evaluating portal products. This situation quickly changed as existing software vendors came to recognize the market desire for ... Jun. 27, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 9,307 |
 Sometimes the mistakes of youth can haunt a person later in life. If you aren't careful, the same could happen to your business with high-tech's latest industry game changer: Web services. It's the next phase in e-business and something every executive should be considering. If the...May. 23, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,229 |
Years ago, retailers grew by opening new stores, thus gaining new customers and sales revenue from each new locale. As many retailers added stores, an over-stored condition resulted. Retailing success then depended more on increasing revenues by maintaining customer loyalty and at... Apr. 24, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,203 |
Time. The most precious commodity on the planet – every year there seems to be less of it available. Less time for hobbies, less time to play with the kids, less time to sleep. Many long for a simpler age, when there were fewer pressures, fewer complexities, and more leisure time. Most... Mar. 12, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 10,062 |
Recently, several companies announced upgrades to their developer sites. Let’s look at IBM’s ongoing efforts in this area. IBM has a development community of 1.6 million registered users. In the two years since its inception, developerWorks has offered multiple online and offline resou... Mar. 12, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 10,577 |
We've all seen the headlines and understand the recent downturn of the economy and of business in general, but what we in the technology community continue to struggle with is hearing the omnipresent mantra of 'faster, better, and cheaper.' Demonstrating increased value within these co... Feb. 22, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 9,172 |
Within the next few years we will all be connected to networks for almost every purpose in our lives. Our TVs, our cars, our refrigerators, and maybe even our pets, are all going to be plugged into some network that will make our lives better. Better? Is that simpler or more complex? E... Feb. 22, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 9,450 |
