January 2011 Archives

My colleague here at ebizQ, James Taylor, just posted some interesting projections over at the Smart Data Collective on the evolving adoption of business rules to move BPM efforts forward.Here are some snippets of James' observations about business rules in... Read More..

How well do SOA and business process management go together?  Are actually two very different disciplines. ZapThink's Jason Bloomberg provides good food for thought on the SOA-BPM discussion, saying that SOA and BPM are structurally the same. They may, in... Read More..

Always the provocateurs, Gartner has released some details of an analysis that suggests that shoddy business process management practices will be the undoing of a number of large enterprises.Between now and year-end 2014, the consultancy predicts, an intensifying focus on... Read More..

On one of his latest posts here at ebizQ, Dave Linthicum asks the question:  "Is Lack of SOA Talent Killing Cloud Computing?"Dave is one of the few voices out there that has made the definitive connection between SOA and cloud... Read More..

Does Apple Computer hold the keys to the future of service oriented architecture and private cloud computing? The "app store" concept -- with graphical, user friendly icons --  makes the IT infrastructure and related services tangible to business end-users.InformationWeek's Chris... Read More..

As the new year kicks into high gear, there's been a lot of SOA discussions and debates raging here at ebizQ.It should be noted that it's been, incredibly enough, two years since Anne Thomas Manes' game-changing declaration that "SOA is... Read More..

Ford Motor Company has made a roaring comeback from the precipice much of the auto industry stood at just a few years ago. The company recently reported full-year sales totaled 1.935 million, up 19 percent versus a year ago -... Read More..

Dice Inc. has just released its monthly employment report, analyzing 68,000 available IT jobs, and finds demand strong for a range of service-oriented specialties. Here is a breakdown of the hottest of hot skill areas:Cloud:  As Dice observes, these are... Read More..

Recently, Kerrie Holley and Dr. Ali Arsanjani, both IBMers who have been doing intensive work with SOA approaches, compiled the most frequently asked questions being asked about SOA into a new book, titled, appropriately enough, 100 SOA Questions Asked and... Read More..

The nation of Belgium has long had language issues on a national level -- the country has suffered from divides between its French-speaking and Dutch/Flemish-speaking populaces, to the point where secession was being contemplated in some quarters. However, the Belgian... Read More..