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Thoughts and ideas from Neil Macehiter and Neil Ward-Dutton at Macehiter Ward-Dutton, an advisory firm specialising in issues concerning IT-business alignment in the enterprise.
SOA governance and data governance - separate or one in the same?
Joe McKendrick (once again!) has another post which caught my blogreader today. This time he is pondering the relationship between SOA and data governance:
If data governance is inadequate—information is outdated, out of sync,...
Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 24th September '08
Hmm indeed Mr McKendrick - that should be "an over-simplistic definition of 'SOA'"
Joe McKendrick over at ZDNet has been pondering CIO SOA Advisor Nicholas Petreley's definition of SOA:
a networked subroutine
No wonder Joe's not sure about it! Nicholas' definition is closer to that of a web service and even...
Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 24th September '08
Ignore the spin: Microsoft's membership of the OMG is good news for all concerned
Tony Baer's one of the analysts who's picked up on Microsoft's recent announcement that it's joining the OMG and backing UML and BPMN. His post is pretty interesting and outlines some of the relevant history—particularly relating to DSLs and...
Bola Rotibi, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 13th September '08
IBM, Business Event Processing, and CEP: behind the bag of spanners
Earlier this week I attended an IBM press and analyst summit on the topic of Business Event Processing. To coincide with this, the company made some announcements on its BEP leadership, with over 3700 BEP customers. This is fairly early days in...
Neil Ward-Dutton, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 12th September '08
ECM vendors collaborate on interoperability standard
Yesterday EMC, IBM, and Microsoft jointly announced Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) - a new specification designed to enable interoperability between content management repositories. The proposed standard, which was also being...
Angela Ashenden, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 10th September '08
Software AG goes in an interesting direction for SOA governance
As part of yesterday's release of the latest iteration of its webMethods Insight product Software AG announced an OEM partnership with Progress Software. This announcement adds the Actional runtime SOA management and monitoring technology (which...
Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 9th September '08
A new MWD FM podcast series: Software Delivery InFocus
After an extended hiatus, we're relaunching our podcasting efforts with a planned series of discussions focusing on the challenges and issues associated with software delivery processes and competence in enterprises. We've called this podcast...
Neil Ward-Dutton, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 5th September '08
Cisco strengthens collaboration portfolio
Cisco today announced its acquisition (which is expected to close by the end of October) of email and calendaring startup, PostPath, for the princely sum of approximately $215 million. The PostPath offering is Linux-based, and has been designed to...
Angela Ashenden, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 27th August '08
Businesses aren't machines, and enterprise architecture can't make them so
Via Service Oriented Enterprise, I recently picked up an Infoworld blog post by SOA journeyman David Linthicum, where he makes a couple of very strange points about SOA and ESBs. It may be, of course, that the post is pure link bait: certainly,...
Neil Ward-Dutton, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 23rd July '08
Collaborative mind mapping
I don't usually blog about individual briefings from vendors, but I've just had a fascinating briefing from Mindjet, a company which has developed an interactive, collaborative mind mapping solution based on its established personal mind mapping...
Angela Ashenden, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 2nd July '08