http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/ Industry trends and vendor spotlights from Beth Gold-Bernstein, ebizQ's vice president of strategic services. en Copyright 2008 Thu, 01 May 2008 15:35:57 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Event processing and event driven architecture (EDA) provide a way for organizations to implement real time visibility and proactive decision making in the enterprise. Just about every survey we do shows that business agility is the #1 business driver for... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/archives/2008/05/event_processin.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/archives/2008/05/event_processin.php EDA Thu, 01 May 2008 15:35:57 -0500 I recently caught up with John Schmidt, who has recently joined Informatica as the VP, of Global Integration Services. John is also the Chair of the Integration Consortium, and is now helping Informatica define a set of best practices and... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/archives/2008/04/creating_an_icc.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/archives/2008/04/creating_an_icc.php Vendor Briefings Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:09:58 -0500 Yesterday Lombardi announced availability of Blueprint, its on-line process modeling tool designed for business people, and offered on a SaaS basis. Lombardi also announced process definition packages to accelerate the development and deployment of processes. I decided to hold off... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/archives/2008/04/lombardi_releas_1.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/archives/2008/04/lombardi_releas_1.php Industry News Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:16:09 -0500 I'm in Las Vegas from IBM IMPACT - their yearly customer event focused on SOA. Over 6300 attendees are here. The morning started out in the MGM Arena with a marching band, the CIO of Harley Davidson riding in on... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/archives/2008/04/live_from_ibm_i_1.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/archives/2008/04/live_from_ibm_i_1.php SOA Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:35:47 -0500 There is a very big movement in the industry away from after-the-fact reporting and analysis to on-demand information delivered in context, what some are calling operational BI. Last year ebizQ did a virtual conference on BI in Action during which... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/archives/2008/04/bi_meets_event.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/archives/2008/04/bi_meets_event.php BI Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:36:21 -0500 I recently caught up with Nicholas Crown, Product Line Manager of Sun’s Identity Business Unit, to talk about Sun’s new strategy to address the growing IT Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) market. The cornerstones of Sun’s strategy are its... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/archives/2008/03/suns_grc_ecosys_1.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/archives/2008/03/suns_grc_ecosys_1.php Vendor Briefings Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:32:10 -0500 One of the things that swamped me in the past month was setting up a new computer. Never fun. This one was interesting as I was forced to migrate to Vista. There has been a lot of talk about Vista... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/archives/2008/03/ms_vista_and_we.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/archives/2008/03/ms_vista_and_we.php Industry Trends Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:58:25 -0500 BACK TO THE BLOG!!! Please excuse my long absence. Setting up a new computer, a new office, starting a new venture in addition to everything else I am continuing to do has left me with little sleep and little time... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/archives/2008/03/web_20_and_soa.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/archives/2008/03/web_20_and_soa.php Events Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:56:26 -0500 Today TIBCO announced general availability of TIBCO ActiveMatrix™ 2.0 which is designed to simplify SOA development, deployment and management. While SOA is being widely recognized and an architectural best practice for enabling business and IT to respond quickly and more... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/archives/2008/02/tibco_announces_1.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/archives/2008/02/tibco_announces_1.php Industry News Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:21:21 -0500 This week HP made a number of announcements around their SOA governance capabilities including new professional services and software in order to help companies “accelerate SOA adoption, drive increased business value and reduce potential risk to the business.” According to... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/archives/2008/01/hp_announces_ne_1.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/archives/2008/01/hp_announces_ne_1.php Industry News Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:32:57 -0500 Amberpoint released the results of an SOA market survey which contained some expected and some surprising results. Expected - the market is still in the early stages. Surprising - respondents reported a 98.5% success rate saying their implementations met all or a portion of their expectations and requirements. http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/archives/2008/01/new_market_surv.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/archives/2008/01/new_market_surv.php SOA Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:27:07 -0500 At the end of this month on Jan 30th, I'm heading out to San Francisco for a new conference The Open Group is launching - the IT Specialist Conference. It will be held on the last day of the The... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/archives/2008/01/open_groups_new.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/archives/2008/01/open_groups_new.php Podcast Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:50:16 -0500 In this podcast I spoke with Dr. Adam Dr. Adam Kolawa, CEO of Parasoft, and author of "Automated Defect Prevention," published in 2007 by Wiley-Interscience. The basic premise is that when you invest in preventing defects in software through infrastructure,... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/archives/2008/01/automated_defec.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/archives/2008/01/automated_defec.php SOA Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:23:41 -0500 In this podcast I spoike with Hub Vandervoort, CTO at Progress Software about his ebook titled “SOA: Socially Oriented Architecture”. In this book Hub talks about a the people and management side of complex SOA environments that cross organizational boundaries,... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/archives/2007/12/socially_orient_1.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/archives/2007/12/socially_orient_1.php SOA Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:31:59 -0500 Catching up with Miko Matsumura, VP and Deputy CTO, Software AG WebMethods, is always interesting. Miko likes to pontificate on the industry, and his current pontifications are around SOA, entropy, and IT funding. Miko informs us that "the thermodynamic definition... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/archives/2007/12/soa_as_a_cure_f.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/bethgb/archives/2007/12/soa_as_a_cure_f.php SOA Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:39:57 -0500