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IDC just released some data that shows that the worldwide business process management (BPM) and middleware market recovered strongly from its 2009 growth slump and for 2010 revenue totaled nearly $16.1 billion, representing growth of 9.2% - up sharply from... Read More..

Here's an area in need of great process improvement:  Many IT and data managers feel that there is a wide disconnect between the individuals charged with ensuring database security and their corporate management. While database professionals and managers are expected... Read More..

A new IBM study of more than 3,000 global CIOs shows that businesses are embracing strategies including analytics, cloud, and business process management to grow their businesses.Sixty percent of the CIOs surveyed see BPM as a critical priority this year,... Read More..

Can business process outsourcing be leveraged from the cloud? Does this even make sense, or is it a case of buzzword overkill? Phil Fersht observes that few commentators ever understood the concept of BPO, but with the advent of cloud... 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..

A new survey of 140 IT professionals finds that virtualization is the strategy of choice for the year ahead. The survey, conducted by AppDynamics, an application performance management vendor, suggests that a majority of companies are moving full bore into... Read More..

A recent survey from Forrester finds eight out of ten financial services firms use SOA approaches today. Plus, they want more service orientation in their business systems, delivered at a faster pace. A team of Forrester analysts, Jost Hoppermann, Mike... Read More..

Over the past year, there has been plenty of discussion about the value offered by private clouds, which are seen as a more secure alternative to public clouds. The road to private cloud is seen through virtualization and service oriented... Read More..

Call it "Session's Law": "the larger and more expensive an IT project is, the more likely it is to fail.Roger Sessions, CTO of ObjectWatch, in a recent NetworkWorld interview, even puts a cost threshold on IT failure: A system that... Read More..

SOA has matured to its next level, but is still being held back by misconceptions. There's a number of fables that have grown up around SOA, and at the same time, there are some stock objections that really make no... Read More..