Neil Macehiter on IT-Director.com

SOA governance and data governance - separate or one in the same?

Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:23:00 +0100

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 ?... [Read More...]

Hmm indeed Mr McKendrick - that should be "an over-simplistic definition of 'SOA'"

Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:26:00 +0100

Joe McKendrick over at ZDNet has been pondering CIO SOA Advisor Nicholas Petreley's definition of SOA:a networked subroutineNo wonder Joe's not sure about it! Nicholas' definition is closer to that... [Read More...]

Software AG goes in an interesting direction for SOA governance

Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:32:00 +0100

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... [Read More...]

IBM's identity management becomes user-centric: HP's identity management exit strategy

Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton — Thu, 22 May 2008 07:54:00 +0100

Courtesy of InternetNews on Tuesday I learned that IBM has added support for OpenID, Windows CardSpace and Eclipse's Higgins Identity Framework to its Tivoli Federated Identity Manager (FIM)... [Read More...]

Just like buses ...

Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:20:00 +0100

... you're waiting for an identity management acquisition and then along come three at once. This time it's IBM which has acquired 40-person, privately-held Encentuate. If you think that Ecentuate's... [Read More...]

More acquisition activity in the identity space

Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:16:00 +0100

Hot on the heels of last week's acquisition of Credentica by Microsoft, Ping Identity announced yesterday that it has acquired the Sxip Access business... [Read More...]

A privacy-enhancing acquisition for Microsoft

Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:47:00 +0100

Microsoft has acquired Canadian cryptography specialist Credentica. This news sees Microsoft reverting back to its more traditional approach of acquiring small (Credentica is a team of three)... [Read More...]

HP tightens up its SOA governance proposition

Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:38:00 +0100

HP yesterday announced long-awaited (at least as far as we are concerned) enhancements to its SOA software and services, which see the company beginning to realise the potential of its acquisition of... [Read More...]

Experian partners with Microsoft to develop an identity selector proof of concept

Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:47:00 +0100

Perhaps it's because we're in the run up to the holiday season or because the press release came from the UK that accounts for the lack of commentary on the announcement that Experian has developed a... [Read More...]

Nodding about nodding dog alignment

Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:08:00 +0100

I just came across Steve Jones' post, Nodding dog alignment - the perils of aligning to people not business, in which he points out the sad reality that many IT organisations which believe they are... [Read More...]

Not all processes are created equal - at least under the lens of IT

Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 05:15:00 +0100

Andrew McAfee at Harvard Business school poses an interesting question:do 'managers' belong on the list of knowledge workers whose jobs are being transformed by information technology?His question is... [Read More...]

Roles play a prominent role in identity management this week

Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:08:00 +0100

Back in September Oracle announced that it had acquired privately-held Enterprise Role Management (ERM) player Bridgestream continuing its identity management-through-acquisition strategy. With many... [Read More...]

Oracle proposes to buy BEA

Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:57:00 +0100

Oracle today confirmed that it delivered a letter to the Board of Directors of BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) on October 9 in... [Read More...]

Time to be honest about SaaS

Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:08:00 +0100

I thought that those of you who aren't recipients of our monthly newsletter might be interested in this commentary (penned by the other Neil) dissecting some of the problems with the definition (or... [Read More...]

Has CardSpace become Passport?

Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:10:00 +0100

Ben Laurie of The Bunker Secure Hosting has a provocative post about the two emerging (and that's important) leaders in user-centric identity: OpenID and CardSpace. He quite rightly points out that... [Read More...]

The pointless search for SOA ROI

Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:10:00 +0100

I just came across this story at Application Development Trends referring to a report from ... [Read More...]

Microsoft's Dynamic IT: it's a start

Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:00:00 +0100

I have just returned from a couple of days in Orlando, where I attended a Microsoft Server and Tools Business analyst summit which coincided with the ... [Read More...]

Shock, horror: Microsoft and Concordia

Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:00:00 +0100

Microsoft agrees to participate in ID project ... [Read More...]

Realising the identity metasystem

Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton — Tue, 29 May 2007 10:00:00 +0100

It's perhaps unsurprising, given all the brouhaha surrounding Microsoft's claims that open source software ... [Read More...]

Microsoft server and tools is now part of the business division

Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton — Mon, 21 May 2007 06:00:00 +0100

The ever-vigilant Redmond watcher Mary Jo Foley over at ZDNet reports that Microsoft's Server and Tools ... [Read More...]

Does IT matter

Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton — Wed, 16 May 2007 06:00:00 +0100

What's the correct way to think about IT's effects going forward: diminished competitive significance because the technology innovations are being absorbed, or sustained significance because IT... [Read More...]

SAP plugs a significant gap - acquires MaXware

Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton — Tue, 15 May 2007 06:00:00 +0100

Well, better late than never. SAP today announced the acquisition of privately-held ... [Read More...]

Microsoft drops virtualisation features

Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton — Fri, 11 May 2007 15:00:00 +0100

Yesterday, the General Manager of Microsoft's virtualization strategy Mike Neil sed his blog to announce that a number of features would be missing from the initial release of Windows Server Virtualization [Read More...]

Healthy signs for IT-Business alignment

Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton — Wed, 09 May 2007 16:00:00 +0100

McKinsey has just published the results of a survey of 72 senior IT executives in the US (free subscription required for the full article) which investigated IT strategy maturity. The majority of ... [Read More...]

Sun's OpenID programme: definitely something to watch

Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton — Tue, 08 May 2007 08:00:00 +0100

Sun yesterday announced a new initiative around support for OpenID [Read More...]

Policy interoperability - a step in the right direction

Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton — Thu, 03 May 2007 09:00:00 +0100

At the end of last week a webMethods' press release popped into my inbox... [Read More...]

MMS 2007: Microsoft begins to deliver on DSI; provides some IT-business alignment pointers

Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:00:00 +0100

I spent the beginning of last week in San Diego at the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS), the company's annual conference focused on all things systems management. With time to kill on the 15-hour... [Read More...]

Two interesting insights on enterprise architecture

Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:20:00 +0100

Nick Malik (who we interviewed for the book) and Michael Platt, who are both coincidentally from Microsoft, have recently posted some thoughts on enterprise architecture, which align well with our... [Read More...]

Liberty is serious about clients

Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:00:00 +0100

The Liberty Alliance today announced its Advanced Client specifications [Read More...]

The rising importance of the enterprise architecture

Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:00:00 +0100

CIO Magazine has an interesting article on the role of the enterprise architect, which highlights a number of aspects of EA which we call out in the book. [Read More...]