ebizQ Recent Discussion

Agilization - Why CRM Systems Drive Sales People Crazy

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:05:26 -0500

Great article Ian!

You're right, CRM often misses the mark for sales people.

I find that most often, management fails to identify the key workflows that they hope to improve, automate, etc...

Essentially, management is hoping for all sorts of metrics but, the sales people use the CRM inconsistently for reasons you've identified, which then makes the metrics inconsistent.

No one is happy.

The answer is to get management and sales expectations identified and aligned before selecting a solution.

- Craig Klein

All Things Social - Social Media Strategy - Before you Jump in

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:12:36 -0500

I think your social media strategy has to start with a discussion about what you want it to accomplish, as you noted. Until you understand where you're going, you can't possible identify the best path to get there.

When we work with our clients, we talk about the benefits of using social media and try to help them understand how it can benefit their business specifically. Once they start to see the light, we work on building their strategy.

Too many people see social media or social network and immediately think of Facebook. In reality, I guess what I'm saying is that SM needs to start with an education of what SM really is.

- Jon

Anatomy of Agile Enterprise - From Layers to Slices: Redirecting EA Dimensions

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:40:56 -0500

Have you had a look at the EA3 Cube Framework?

- Kludgemaster

Andre Yee's Security Insider - Web Services Security - Web Application Threats

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 16:39:20 -0500

Can you tell us more about XML based attacks.

- jacob

Anne Stuart’s BPM in Action - BPM in 2007: Business Perfomance Maximizer or Big Political Mess?

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:35:55 -0500

Great initial post, Michael! Am glad to have you aboard....

- Gian Trotta

BI in Action - Analytical Software and the Pre-Crime Division

Tue, 22 May 2007 16:34:32 -0500

There was another, similar article about using analytics to detect crime. This one focused on predicting murderers, about which i blogged Is it scary to allow machines to "make decisions"?. I am a believer in automating decisions and using predictive analytics but companies, and other organizations, have to think about how people will react.
JT
My ebizQ blog

- James Taylor

BPM from a Business Point of View - What is Business Process Management [BPM]?

Sun, 10 May 2009 09:04:39 -0500

Scott, I like your comment about most business processes come into being almost by accident. I think that sometimes people forget that, and its ancillary that about 80% of business processes are unstructured (or ad-hoc, human-centric). The BPM tooling and technology focus around structured processes is good - as long as people understand they are looking at only the tip of the business process iceberg.

http://blog.actionbase.com/unstructured-semi-structured-and-structured-processes

- Jacob Ukelson

BPM Insights - Free BPM Modeling Tools

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:44:19 +0000

Hi,
BPM BlueWorks of IBM is a Beta free software for modeling.

- Anonymous

Business Ecology Initiative & Service-Oriented Solution - Situational Enterprise: is this another rabbit hole?

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:48:14 -0500

Michael - the problem with you is that you're pragmatic and actually care about business! :-)

You covered a lot of ground in your post but I understand where your coming from ... especially with your extreme programming example - I think your comments are probably more targeted to the agile dev model.

As far as situational apps - I think we need to give it a little more time. There are some promising technologies that key off the situational apps approach but is more than just app provisioning.

- Andre Yee

Business IT Buzz Blog - iPhone in Healthcare

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:03:46 -0500

Thank you, I will post a update on Remote wipe feature with iChart on iPhone.

- Jayaprakash Kannoth

Business Transformation in Action - SOA in Action: Yes, There's a 'There' There

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 17:40:29 -0500

Hey Joe, welcome to ebizQ blogging! I look forward to reading the "stories". Nothing cuts the hype like real world lessons. -brenda

- brenda michelson

Business-Driven Architect - Business-Driven Architect: Quick Introduction

Fri, 19 May 2006 12:00:51 -0500

Welcome aboard!
Good to have you and I will be interested to see how you manage the two-blog thing. It causes me some trouble once in a while...

- James Taylor

Cloud Computing Insights - New focus

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:30:16 -0500

In this case, would it make sense to change the title of the blog?

Also, It would be interesting to know what do you mean by 'service'.

- Michael Poulin

Cloud Talk - Is SaaS Enterprise Ready? How to Assess Your SaaS Vendor.

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:13:39 -0500

An excellent overview of key evaluation criteria for SaaS vendors -- I would only add to the list interoperability with incumbent infrastructures (perhaps obvious) and other SaaS solutions (perhaps not so obvious), and financial stability (tricky, but essential). See my SaaS blog at www.dortchonit.com for more.

- Michael Dortch

Column 2 - Business Process Modelling for Dummies

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:35:26 -0500

We in the IT space often get accused of blinding the users with heavy notations that, more often than not, they cannot be bothered to try to understand. However, I have to agree with you re the complexity of some of the process diagrams I have seen from technical and process specialists: way over the top for communication purposes.

So, I now have instituted my own checkpoint for any diagram: is there "just enough" information for the consumer to understand or am I on an ego trip?

Seems to be working :-)

- Carl

Data at Your Service - Data Virtualization Provides a Single View Into the Enterprise

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:53:05 -0500

Nice article

james smith

- james smith

Dion Hinchcliffe's Next-Generation Enterprises - 18 Emerging Topics at the Intersection of Business and IT in 2009

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:37:31 -0500

Drizzle is a relational database.

- Jan

ebizQ - I just finished installing Movable Type 4!

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:55:55 -0500

Movable Type also created a comment for me as well so that I could see what a comment will look like on my blog once people start submitting comments on all the posts I will write.

- ebizQ

ebizQ Forum - Is SOA Dead ?

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:17:37 -0500

In essence Anne was stating out loud what we already knew,
but were unable to admit: The complexity of SOA was just too much for most global 2000 companies, and the recent round of budget cuts killed many SOA projects.
Okay, if we're not going to do SOA, than back to the basics I say. I think that it may be a better approach to focus on concepts and approaches that are more simplistic in nature, such as data integration, and perhaps use that as a jumping off point to SOA, or SOA like substance in the future.

- David Linthicum

ebizQ's Business Agility Watch - Highlight on ebizQ blogger Sandy Kemsley

Tue, 07 Mar 2006 14:44:57 -0500

Hi elizabeth,
Industry Pluse Blog on SOA and Blog post on Mashup is great. Is there any feature articles or webinars available for developers utilizing SOA in Mashup or may be case study whitepaper.

Best,
John

- John

Enterprise Architecture Matters - Survey proves that Enterprise Architecture does only IT strategy, solution architecture and project reviews

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 07:07:58 +0000

Your last line says it all: "This is not really EA work and the professionals in the group are IT rather than EA architects."

This isn't enterprise-architecture - it's IT-architecture with (in some cases) a whole-of-enterprise scope.

The survey-questions themselves help to reinforce, so it's not real a survey about EA at all: it's a survey about IT-architecture.

What this survey really tells us is that the IT-centric hijack of the much broader term 'enterprise-architecture' is all but total - which means that we now have no means to describe a true 'architecture of the enterprise'. And we need that broader meaning, even to make sense of IT-architecture: for example, the Open Group are now publicly urging TOGAF architects to break out of the IT-centric box.

IT-architecture is not enterprise-architecture: it is, at best, a minor subset of EA, but that's all. As a profession, EA has a real problem here: if we don't challenge this flagrant misuse of the term 'enterprise-architecture', we are dead in the water. Not good.

- Tom Graves

Enterprise Mashups in Action - 10 for 2010: I Predict Google Gars, Apple Books, a CNN Moment and More

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:31:02 -0500

How very insightful Johnny. No comment on who will win on the bachelor?

- Mashup Mike

First Look - Tungsten: A Complete Open Source Middleware Solution?

Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:05:27 -0500

Gian,
There are so many companies in Open source market like JBOSS/Redhat, ActiveGrid and Novell, will WSO2 survive or it will be acquired by some other company. WSO2 doesn't have a unique product or service, so customer buying ws02 service/product must think twice before buying from them.

- Phil

Gadget Gumbo - G-Tech Solves Dating, I Mean Storage Woes

Tue, 15 May 2007 12:14:07 -0500

I really enjoyed your comparison between dating and storage. I get it. Good job.

- Laura

Governing the Infrastructure. - SOA Governance Frameworks--Are They Worth It?

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:05:46 -0500

Hi David

We just published on new book on SOA Governance. If you would be interesting in reviewing the book, I can send you a copy for review. Please drop me a note if interested.

You can find the details on the book here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0137147465/ref=s9subs_c1_14_at1-rfc_p_si1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=1WCG31R94DK35156VKBS&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=463383351&pf_rd_i=507846

- e.uffer

Ground-Floor BPM - Simulated Benefits

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:00:39 -0500

"Simulation delays automation" - only a pure automation vendor could say this, I have heard similar comments before, don't bother with analysis "It is best to simply automate what you have, get rid of the people and then take a look" - Such rush to act before thinking is what has got IT type projects in a mess before, and surely will again. There are times when simulation takes too long costs too much and their are times when it makes sense or is vital. Good vendors should be able to share with you metrics and examples of both when and when not to use. Life is never as simple as appears to being made out here. Given that I don't work in the Simulation industry, but have worked with many clients and vendors who do support and have used it to great effect these observations, whilst obviously true for you and your experience of the world, obviously don't tie in the the view of the world by your "widely respected analyst" - and I happen to share views nearer to his, based on what I have seen.

Of course neither view is in fact right or wrong, they are simply our views based on our experiences. Some people base it on a narrow view e.g. a single customer base, some a wider view based on multiple customers bases and some on a very broad view totally unaligned to any vendors view.

I don't know if your post is written from the perspective of a vendor who does bot feel that analysts are giving them the great time they think they should have because of product weaknesses - I agree that if I did not have something and analysts said I should then I would have to justify why I did not have it. Or, whether it is written to stimulate debate, in which case I suspect an interesting set of comments will ensue.

Kind Regards

Mark McGregor
Independent, Author & Performance Coach

www.markmcgregor.com

- Mark McGregor

Integration on the Edge: Data Explosion & Next-Gen Integration - Data Services: the Cloud and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA)

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:59:30 -0500

Here is a GREAT visual comparison of Rackspace, EC2 AND Azure. Just found it the other day:

http://www.skytap.com/compare-skytap-aws-ec2-microsoft-azure-and-rackspace/index.php

- Larry

Israel Innovation 2.0 - People information and networking... shouldn't the next big thing be from Israel?

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:47:05 -0500

Hello Lisa. I enjoyed this post and the insight into the development of social networking and web 2.0 companies that are making a mark in Israel. Thanks!

- Diane Wright

IT 2.0 - Wikipedia's Open Source Search Engine

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:49:04 -0500

Michael Arrington also mentions this story over at
TechCrunch

- Leah

IT as a Catalyst for Optimal Business Outcomes - Business value emerging from the SOA Primordial Ooze

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:34:30 -0500

In general I think you are right, however regarding the metaphor you used as an example "My first round of golf was a complete failure. Did that make me a failure as a golfer?", well you certainly didn't pay a couple of millions for a green fee or did you?

I think the main problem with SOA projects is what is known as the "Pick of inflated Expectations". If expectations are not set properly to the business (meaning that are set to high) is very likely that what they will eventually get (that if they don’t cancelled the project before actually delivering something) doesn’t meet the expectations...

This problem is mainly the cause of having the “wrong�? people (probably the wrong architects) selling the solution to the business. In my opinion in many projects you have architects how focus more in the nice “talk�? than in delivering results quickly, producing quick wins and pragmatic roadmaps to gain confidence from the stake holders in an incremental way

A salesman or an architect that behaves like one shouldn’t be the one facing the business...

- Luis

IT Copywrite - Open market for consumer - Web 3.0

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:03:08 -0500

I would like one additional requirement for symantic integration - translation and transformation capabilities. I just don't think we'll EVER get everyone using the same schema, and it we did it would mean throwing out everything we already have. I've been watching the ontology standards including FDF, but OWL is considered the more robust and newer standard. Oasis is also working on industry specific ontologies.

- Beth Gold-Bernstein

IT Directions - BPMN will kill BPEL. Will it kill BPM too?

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 04:32:53 +0000

Here i am seeing contradictory statemetns.
If we dont need BPEL language..Why we need extra language kind of BPMN MetaModel(XML..)

- John

James Taylor's Decision Management - Business agility in a litigious society

Thu, 06 Apr 2006 12:03:05 -0800

James - nice post on one of the many benefits of a business rules management systems. Thanks.

- Mark Peterson

Kiran Garimella's BPM Blog - Am I a BPEL hater?

Sun, 19 Mar 2006 13:34:59 -0500

I agree. BPEL 2.0 is over-rated. Its an artificial attempt by standards bodies to make a grand entrance in the BPMS space. The fact that BPEL 2.0 is almost 100% incompatible with BPEL 1.1 speaks to the fact that these guys are essentially re-inventing the wheel every couple of years.

On another note, what do people think of Pure Play BPMS vendors ? My employer recently licensed Selcian BPMS software from a company called Selcian. One of the new entrants in this space, but seems to have a compelling product vision and good architecture. Their customer service can take some improvement though. Any one has any experience with them ?

- Ravi

Leadership BPM - The BPM Trends I See

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:31:06 -0500

Thanks, Rashid - great overview of how to frame BPM. I would suggest adding "standardization" as the fourth "s". At Active Endpoints we're putting an emphasis on BPEL4People (http://www.vosibilities.com/bpel/bpel4people-and-ws-humantask-1-1-reach-public-review/2009/12/15/) and BPMN 2.0 (http://www.vosibilities.com/bpel/bpmn-2-0-with-bpel-searchsoa-weighs-in/2009/12/04/). Both of these specs are out for public review.

- Pat Flanders

Leveraging Information and Intelligence - Characteristics of the Perfect SOA Architect

Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:05:40 +0000

another suggestion - the person needs to have a very good understanding of the business and its model. And it goes without saying, the present technologies supporting it.

P.S. Great channel keep up the good work.

- Rob

Making Sense of Business Information. - What is Data Virtualization?

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:50:58 -0500

Once enterprise implements virtual infrastructure and gets over the hump of trusting the cloud security, the next frontier in cloud adaption is simple - what can I actually deploy into the cloud? Tremendous capacity was created by the elasticity of the cloud and by dynamically allocating server CPU, memory, network and bandwidth resources to apps. Once entire enterprise stack has been virtualized - the data virtualization comes naturally. As such, data virtualization is a bit different in nature from the rest of the infrastructure stack; the main idea behind virtualization is object globalization across desperate data silos, access control as already defined in each silo. Some hot new start-ups emerged accomplishing data virtualization for apps in the enterprise (queplix.com), that complete the virtualization infrastructure and actually deliver its benefits. The DV is the actual enabler for the cloud adaption cycle. In addition to the industries Scott mentioned in his article, BI and Enterprise search are the two main industries which are starting to use DV and see direct results: not only they now use a single source of virtual data, but, for example queplix product also merges similar data structures and presents a single virtual entities to the BI and search. Google GSA already works with Queplix DV and most of the BI tools are now compatible with it. I believe and adaption numbers confirm DV as a required stage for any enterprise cloud strategy.

- Steve

Manage Tomorrow's Surprises Today - Risk Software - Lipstick on a Pig?

Tue, 30 May 2006 18:26:45 -0500

Improving accuracy and timelienss of information needed to make decisions will certainly lead to better outcomes. The problem is that organizations are built on inefficient hierarchical structures that can block the flow of critical information. Before software can enter into the mix, the firm needs to design and implement practices that break-down internal barriers.

Evan Busman

- Evan Busman

Meshups - Lack of Documentations in IT

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:42:43 -0500

So it's all my fault my heap of crap Cisco doesn't work because I haven't worked hard enough to get it to work?

Funny how I can very easily get D-link & Zoom modems to work in a few minutes.

Still, must be my fault that Cisco kit is badly designed.

- Jack

MUMBO GUMBO - The power outage at 365 Main, San Francisco

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:27:03 -0500

two comic strips in a row, and funny ones at that. good one leah.

- arnold

New Frontiers in Business Intelligence - When does SaaS Work and When not?

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:33:49 +0000

Thanks for a very useful article!

- Tony Y

new_test - Is SOA Dead ?

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:17:37 -0500

- David Linthicum

Open for Business - Modeling vs coding

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:09:33 -0500

Although there is something magical in modeling I personally don't see this really happening,
You can use modeling for building your skeleton (which can later be used for documentation)
but from there I only see code (components/blocks are still code), I can't really imagine a full blown business app completely modeled and supported for a lasting period of time.

- Asaf Yarkoni

Open Source Software Up the Stack - Apache Formalizes Distribution of an MQ Series Equivalent

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:56:20 -0500

Dennis, you are correct, ActiveMQ is a messaging infrastructure, not an ESB. ActiveMQ is included in Apache ServiceMix (in incubator status) which is an ESB. ActiveMQ and ServiceMix are from the same core group of developers, and both are professionally supported by LogicBlaze (packaged as FUSE).

While ServiceMix and Celtix do compete, Celtix actually ships with ActiveMQ for messaging. One of the most interesting things about open source (IMO) is the environment of "co-opetition".

- brenda michelson

Open Source Unleashed - Norway and the trend of mandatory open standards

Thu, 17 May 2007 05:37:30 -0500

Microsoft is blocking attempts for any such United States states legislations to enact ODF and PDF open standards. Examples: the huge, mud-slinging campaign that occurred in Massachusetts, the ODF "hitmen" in Florida, etc. See: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/state-state-microsoft-responds-assault/story.aspx?guid=%7BC0D943C4-4ADC-471C-8F87-9181A4EC3E7B%7D "State by State, Microsoft addresses growing ODF threat".

The other thing is that little OOXML reliance on proprietary Microsoft VML and WMF. See http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/odf_ooxml_technical_white_paper?page=0%2C9

- Jim

Penguin Traveler - Virgin Traveler

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:22:37 -0500

PC's are da bomb! LOL.

- Anonymous

Pragmatic Software Design - Advantages of Reliable Messaging

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:08:10 -0500

"when you cannot afford to lose a message you cannot rely on HTTP. "

WS-RM isn't that deployed on HTTP?

- Sriram

Process Makes Perfect - Respecting the Business User

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:56:34 -0500

"...saving IT from having to pay a house call and letting both groups focus on their own jobs". You have a very healthy view of how IT and business can / does work together - it's more realistic than much of what we've seen at Active Endpoints, where BPM is sold as the perfect combination of IT's and LOB's goals. It is, in many ways, but how it arrives at that can be complicated and racked with unnecessary politics.

- Pat Flanders

Ronan Bradley's FinanceTech Directions - How broad is your SOA: The Excel Test

Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:35:22 -0500

"whether they are really thinking about SOA or see it as simply another magic bullet to sell"... I agree it is one of the important question to be asked to a potential software or service vendor.One more thing i would like to add here may be this will be useful to other blog readers, recently "software as a service" company StrikeIron, better to call webservices provider came up with a Add-in product for Excel 2002, they claim "Simply drag–and–drop your Web services fields directly into Excel". What do you think about this. Should we ask our provider that our webservices should be easily accessible from Excel.By calling webservice from Excel may be we can reduce island of data created by end-user.
http://www.strikeiron.com/tools/tools_ondemand.aspx

- John

SaaS Week - Dynamics CRM - Hosted Service checkout demo

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 18:57:26 -0500

Thanks for the link

- Michelle

Security Matters - Titanic Compliance

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:14:20 -0500

thanks admin

- Tek Link Film İndir

SMA's Insurance Transformation, Where Strategy Meets Action - Policy Administration - Are We Chasing A 30-Year Old Dream?

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:41:31 -0500

Deb has echoed the sentiments of every IT and line-of-business executive I have spoken with about the evolution of IT architecture in the insurance sector. When the basic growth model is acquisition, and IT is told that the “risk of operational disruption�? needs to be minimized along with time-to-completion for the acquisition process, CIOs are faced with highly complex legacy environments. Today’s financial meltdown is exacerbating the need for agility, improved affiliate collaboration and compliance. There are three main architectural alternatives that are being explored across the insurance sector:

1. Outsourcing – IT Outsourcing (ITO) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) strategies attempt to bypass the pain and suffering of core system replacement by having third-party experts do it.

2. SOA – This approach attempts to wrap legacy applications and expose their interfaces as services. New, XML-based canonicals from ACORD promise to help make this more feasible.

3. Process-specific orchestration – This pushes rule-based logic out from back-end applications and uses predictive analytics and workflow technology to automate processes with existing systems.

Many leading carriers are looking at combinations of these for all customer-facing processes, from new business underwriting to claims management. Insurance companies are beginning to value these kinds of architectural decisions in their diligence for potential acquisitions. Getting the right mix of these strategies right has never been more critical to customer loyalty and operational efficiency than in today’s volatile financial market.

Daryl Eicher
VP, Industry Solutions
Axway

- Daryl Eicher

Smart Systems in Business - Drivers for Smart Systems in Business: Part II

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:49:01 -0500

I think the growing complexity of regulation and the need to demonstrate compliance with such regulations proactively is also having an effect. Systems must increasingly be demonstrably compliant and this adds a layer of complexity to their development. I also think the volume of data is forcing the issue but I suspect that is covered in your general complexity.
JT

- James Taylor

SOA - Integration Industry Pulse - SOA -- Main Theme at Gartner Application Integration and Web Services Summit

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:19:09 -0500

SOA is a technology concept that is well positioned to provide value to the business elements within an organisation. It enables companies to become more responsive to their environments by enabling change to happen faster. SOA also enables Process Driven Integration and this is at the heart of most organisations. Successful process innovation is what will define the companies of the future.

To say SOA has hype may be true if a vendor cannot focus their offering to provide business value and improvements.

Companies that do embrace SOA need to be prepared to engage with the business and to ensure their solutions provide measurable business benefit. This is done using technology, proven methodologies for attaining rapid business value and a constant drive to ensure that these implementations are at the fore of industry best practises.

- Emma Murray

SOA Visionaries - SOA Visionaries with Julianna Cammarano

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:44:39 -0500

For web services visibility we use JaxView. And with the agentless option there is truely Zero agents and zero overhead on the network and I was actually surprised at how easy it was to get up and running. We have SLA's in and needed a fast way to get performance statistics within our webservices environment.

- Justin Pratt

Software Infrastructure for Business Value - With standards, do we get what we deserve?

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:38:35 +0000

Neil, I think it all boils down to "have put time and budget aside to participate". Sitting on a standards body is a time consuming activity, with little immediate return. The typical "technology customer" organization can't spare the talent and/or the membership fees. Instead, they push their requirements through key (influencial) vendors. While this isn't optimal, it's the best answer for the current model. So, I'm thinking the real question is how can the models of current standards bodies change to accomodate the "technology customer"? Perhaps a requirements round? Real-World Applicability Review Gates? Free Membership and a Vote? And shouldn't the vendors speaking out for customer involvement work to influence that change? -brenda

- brenda michelson

Software Test Management and Metrics - Testing Software in the realm of Web 2.0

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:59:00 -0500

Dear Sir,
We looking for a company to build a test software with simulation activity for some programs upon our needs

And this software should be able to administrated and run via web,

If you have such software, please provide us the solution specification

Regards

Amer Abu Hinda
Executive Director

- Amer Abu Hinda

Tech Blog - 18 Emerging Topics at the Intersection of Business and IT in 2009

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:37:31 -0800

Drizzle is a relational database.

- Jan

Tech for Tomorrow - BPM Benefits: Myth or Reality?

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:04:45 -0500

Doug, I agree that expectations are often unrealistic. Companies that could not plan lunch should not see BPM technology as a magic bullet. It can not fix the behaviors of your leaders, the chaos of an organization, or the delicate operation of a core system.

I agree with Jim Sinur's comparison of European and US projects - this was the first thing that hit me when I came to work in the US.

When first introducing process improvement concepts into an organization, it may not be bad to get some quick wins with fast and cheap projects. They build consensus and support, and they allow companies to generate a baseline from which they can build. Over-planning complex BPM in a company that still shuffles paper is going to lead to significant wasted effort and missed opportunities.

Only by trying "something" does a company find out the effect it will have on the organization, and may actually highlight other areas they should be investing, such as leadership and organizational development. Process change may not fix everything, as simple process improvement projects reveal alternative pain points.

Phil Ayres
http://www.consected.com

- Phil Ayres

Technology Management Insights - Benefits of Automated Invoice Processing

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:30:54 -0500

Dear Arun

Is there a defintive reference point or document that outlines the true cost per invoice where a manual process is in place?

Parm

- parm

Ted Cuzzillo's BI - LucidEra's lessons for BI in the mid-market

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:38:59 -0800

Ted,
Some great insight on the demise of LucidEra right from the "horses mouth". I would like to pass my thanks on to Ken and Darren for their candor. Their openness and honesty during a very difficult time is refreshing. I think this shows that while their company didn't make it, they are still dedicated to helping the SaaS BI market survive.
Dave

Check out my blog on this topic.
http://blog.pervasivepm.com/2009/07/08/will-lucideras-demise-have-a-domino-effect-on-saas-bi.aspx

- Dave Kasabian

temp_test_blog2 - 18 Emerging Topics at the Intersection of Business and IT in 2009

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:37:31 -0500

Drizzle is a relational database.

- Jan

The Architect Insider - The Art of Compromise: Scrum and Project Governance

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:39:47 -0500

Normally governance is PMBoK driven. This can take us again to try to trace forward PMI practices to their agile counter-part.

Let me explain my take here of this traceability or translation approach by analogy to language learning. Imagine your first language is Arabic and whenever you communicate in English you first put the Arabic version then you translate to English. You know what, people can find you "ineffective".

Imagine now you understand the English culture and why people behave and express in certain ways. Instead of starting from your first language you directly use English based on this culture understanding. Your communication will be much more effective.

- Sameh

The Connected Web - Switch to SaaS For Free

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:03:52 -0500

the switch between on site software to on-demand hosted software requires an open mind from the user. As the user saving money, he has to get used to the idea that the data is not located in-house, but somewhere else.

- Hana

The Healthcare Blog - Getting tech products into the healthcare market

Thu, 21 May 2009 15:52:15 -0500

Health care industry plays an important part in the economy of a country. The health care industry determines the GDP or the gross domestic product of any country. Health care segment provides employment openings to many individuals.

- Jay Andrews

The Mike Rothman Security Report - Like Playing 3-D Chess: Mike Rothman Talks With Greg Ness About Virtualization Security

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:52:28 -0500

I am very interested in virtualization security and thank you for the valuable comment!

- Tack

Tikbalang - The JSON Saga

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:46:02 -0500

Would love to see your progress on JSON, please share some examples, project.

- Prasad

Twenty-Four Seven Security - New Phishing Fighter

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:22:58 -0500

I think the statistics speak for themselves -- it's not hard to contribute and many are. http://www.phishtank.com/stats.php

I would encourage your readers to submit suspected phish emails to PhishTank, too.

Cheers,

John Roberts
OpenDNS, operators of PhishTank.com

- John Roberts

Where SOA Meets Cloud - Does SOA Solve Integration?

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 11:11:04 -0500

Thanks for the link. Reading this, and acknowledging that they're different architectures, I guess the real question is: Does SOA make integration work easier?

- Loraine Lawson