February 25, 2007
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February 23, 2007
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"The Open Solutions Alliance will seek to expand the market for business open source software solutions through cooperative action that increases awareness of member solutions, reduces barriers to customer adoption, facilitates interoperability, and expla
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Alex Fletcher on the OSA "it will serve the open source community well to explore effective methods of advocacy which helps eliminate some of that knowledge gap...awareness, an open source product is free to prove itself what it often is, an equal if not
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JetBlue's new Customer Bill of Rights... appears customers can still get stuck on a grounded plane for 5 hours... which earns you a voucher to do it again... what they really need is partnerships with other airlines...no, I wasn't stuck at JFK *this* t
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"the Massachusetts bill -- a first of its kind -- would make any company, be it retailer, bank or data processor, financially liable if it is operator of the system that is hacked"...applies to any company doing business in MA, regardless of base. Wow!
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"Cisco Systems's acquisition ($135 million) of Reactivity on Wednesday gives the company some key tools it needs to carry out its vision of a services-oriented application architecture centered on the network."
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Can anyone help James bridge the six degrees of separation for the folks on his mentor search list? (see James' post). I think mentorship (being one and having one) is critical to success, and definitely not just for newbies...
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Gartner's Hype Cycle for 2005; SOA had entered the Trough of Disillusionment with a 2-5 year term to Plateau of Productivity (the good place).
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Gartner's Hype Cycle for 2006, no specific mention of SOA. However the research relates SOA to new entries MDA and EDA. Did SOA make it out of the trough onto the slope of enlightenment? Is "the peak of inflated expectations" really the chasm cross?
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text supporting Gartner Hype 2006...
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February 22, 2007
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This one-day conference will bring thought leaders from academe and industry together to explore the future of the software industry...offer a conceptual framework for the future of the software industry and pointers on where the best opportunities are to
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"The idea behind Activity Centric Worksites is to use blogging tools to facilitate focused business communication...To make it easy to frame the conversation, provide structure around simple concepts that make sense for your company..."
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"Looking to spur wiki adoption? Want to grow from 10 users to 100, or 1000? Applying patterns that help coordinate peoples' efforts and guide the growth of content can give your wiki the greatest chance of success...recognizing anti-patterns.."
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"it is the beginning of the movement from the read/write web that has propelled the success of blogs, wikis and every kind of user created content vision Web 2.0 to the executable and recombinatorial web."
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JSR 311: JavaTM API for RESTful Web Services. This JSR will develop an API for providing support for RESTful(Representational State Transfer) Web Services in the Java Platform.
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"A connected world places an enormous premium on people who are fluent in communications: expressing ideas, positioning offers, inferring power relationships, decoding nuances, deflecting the manipulations of others...the rise of the articulate and the ma
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"Digitization of work is profoundly world-flattening...Instrumentation and institutions that create visibility and control over processes...Everything will ultimately resolve to a Service Level Agreement and a series of compliance-assuring mechanisms."
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February 20, 2007
Today's WSJ: CIO Jobs Morph From Tech Support Into Strategy
Nice to see this article (free access) in today's WSJ on the increasing role of the CIO in business strategy. Here's some quick excerpts, emphasis is mine:
"Other CIOs are going through similar transformations. The computing systems they manage have long been seen as an essential resource but also an operating cost to be controlled. Now, technology is increasingly being recognized as a vital tool in corporate strategy -- and CIOs are helping to wield it. Web sites, for example, have evolved at many companies from the equivalent of corporate brochures to huge direct-sales channels that must be skillfully designed and tightly managed.
According to recent CIO polls from research firm Gartner Inc., 50% of CIOs surveyed said they now have duties outside of core technology, such as helping to craft corporate strategy. That is up from about 20% three years ago, says Mark McDonald, a Gartner analyst.
"Companies are requiring CIOs to be more thoughtful about strategy," says Reynold Lewke, a partner in the Palo Alto, Calif., office of recruiting firm Egon Zehnder International who leads the firm's CIO practice. "Many CIOs have become business partners."
In recognition of this job shift, more CIOs are now reporting to top executives such as chief executives, chief financial officers and chief operating officers than to other parts of an organization. Last year, 74% of CIOs surveyed reported to a CEO, chief financial officer or operating chief, up from 69% in 2003, according to Gartner."
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"For Louie Ehrlich, CIO for one of Chevron Corp.'s business units that oversees the energy company's refining, marketing and lubricants business, the shift in his job was mirrored in his changing job title. While the 48-year-old previously spent a lot of time integrating Chevron's far-flung tech operations, he took on a more strategic role when he helped lay out a five-year technology road map for the business in 2004. It went beyond tech, such as improvements in the San Ramon, Calif., company's supply chain and improving the reliability of its refineries.
Last September, to reflect how his job had spilled beyond tech support, Chevron gave Mr. Ehrlich the additional title of vice president of strategy and services. He has now ratcheted back his supervision of tech systems to just 10% of his time, instead delegating those responsibilities to a subordinate.
"The CIO title is misused, frankly," says Mr. Ehrlich. If all a CIO does is oversee tech systems, "they should be named a tech manager. A CIO should be enabling a business to grow.""
So, I'm thinking, if CIOs are indeed business strategists, and enterprise architects are key advisors to CIOs, doesn't that make an even stronger case for business-driven architects? And if so, what are architects doing to (a) up their business IQ, and (b) get key architectural strategies (SOA, EDA, BPM, etc) understood and adopted in a business context?
What is the relationship between business strategy and enterprise architecture in your organization? Is it direct and bi-directional? Or indirect, through a separate IT strategy function? Or non-existent?
Update: 2/20/2007 at 3:21 pm
Just saw a couple of related articles in Computerworld.
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February 18, 2007
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this is really cool... an immersive visualization experience...
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Mule ESB case study by Walmart.com's enterprise architect
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"Shouldn’t governance with SOA ultimately be about delivering on your business and SOA objectives?...This article outlines a framework for governance ..and introduces our Six Steps to Successful SOA Governance model."
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February 16, 2007
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RFID at WalMart is still costly for suppliers and (apparently) hasn't paid of yet for WalMart
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"Following the lead of the MIT and other highly competitive schools, more institutions are posting online everything from lecture notes to sample tests, and even making audio and video files of actual lectures publicly available."
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"Quanta Computer, the world's largest contract laptop PC manufacturer, already has confirmed orders for one million notebook PCs for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, a company representative said Thursday."
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"Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Release 7 is the first major version of the TimesTen database developed internally by Oracle since the company purchased TimesTen, a startup firm that specialized in data management, in 2005."
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"Stevens introduced Senate bill 49...would require that any school or library that gets federal Internet subsidies would have to block access to interactive Web sites""...Stevens ...He's certainly a buffoon, but he's a dangerous one."
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"3C = Content, Commerce, Community | 4th C = Context | P = Personalization | VS = Vertical Search. This, I submit, is the formula for the future: Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)."
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"How companies do business will often be more important in 2010 than what they do." Economist Business 2010 series from 2005, sponsored by SAP
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"In Business 2010, companies will need to embrace IT as a strategic, competitive weapon to enable rapid innovation." "Even as new business models are adopted, the IT system should be adaptable to reflect these changes quickly."
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"Two trends in information technology will become increasingly important to CIOs in 2007: a migration to service-oriented architectures and the introduction of lean-manufacturing principles to data center operations."
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February 15, 2007
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"successful CIOs understand that "business knowledge has to become the highest common denominator across the IT shop." That presents a challenge for some companies where the IT department focus is more on technical expertise."
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IBM touted Sonoma, SaaS offered capacity planning tool. "it will enable customers to size SOA-based workloads to meet future performance and scalability requirements. Sonoma is the latest version of the company's OPERA tool for capacity planning."
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February 13, 2007
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"The SOA Consortium is a new SOA advocacy group comprised of end users, service providers, and technology vendors, committed to helping the Global 1000 successfully adopt SOA by 2010."
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February 10, 2007
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"...complex event correlation and automation of business [processes]...one part of the country a weather-delay event and a road closure and some other event, then I know I have a problem, and I have to establish a different [trucking] route."
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anyone tried E2E? "What we deliver functionally is an ESB… However, the way we do that is we have developed a UML (Unified Modeling Language) virtual machine."
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February 08, 2007
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