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Barclays and the case of the excel spreadsheet

By Ronan Bradley on October 17, 2008 11:24 AM 1 Vote 0 Votes

I blogged only a little while ago on the danger of excel in data integration and now a for-instance pops up in finextra: Barclays claims to have discovered that 179 contracts were accidently included in the Lehman Brothers purchase due... Read More..

Categories: Financial Services, Web2.0

Oracle's beehive – social insects but no social computing

By Ronan Bradley on September 24, 2008 9:43 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Oracle launched the latest generation of their collaboration suite called beehive. While I know it takes a while for mergers to bear fruit, I was disappointed to see no mention of BEA’s Enterprise Social Computing concept and related products or... Read More..

Categories: Financial Services, Product news, Web2.0

SOA versus WOA: not a holy war – its just horses for courses

By Ronan Bradley on September 11, 2008 8:28 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

The war has broken out again between proponents of a Web Oriented Architecture (WOA) and SOA. I say war has broken out but really the vast majority of the fighting is coming from the WOA community. Frankly, I find much... Read More..

Categories: Financial Services, SOA concepts, Web2.0

DKW downsized: Consolidation in banking will damage IT innovation

By Ronan Bradley on September 1, 2008 5:49 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

That Dresdner Kleinwort will be radically downsized as part of the take-over of Dresdner by Commerzbank is a sad announcement on a number of fronts – not least of course for the individuals who will lose their jobs in the... Read More..

Categories: Financial Services, Market trends, Web2.0

The enterprise data center versus Amazon and the Elastic Block Store

By Ronan Bradley on August 27, 2008 9:00 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

The cloud computing bank wagon has been rolling pretty strongly recently and to be fair the bandwagon has been driven by some concrete announcements by major players. However, I think that we are running seriously ahead of ourselves if we... Read More..

Categories: Financial Services, Market trends, Web2.0, cloud computing

IBM announces 'For Mash Get SMash'

By Ronan Bradley on March 18, 2008 6:25 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Readers who lived in the UK in the 1970s will have been surprised at IBM's announcement of SMash. IBM’s SMash isn’t in fact a relaunch of a rather chemical instant potato mix made famous for its slogan ‘For Mash get... Read More..

Categories: Market trends, Mash ups, Product news, Web2.0

Mash-ups: The new frontier for governance

By Ronan Bradley on March 5, 2008 4:53 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Mash-ups are one of the hot areas for trialing in 2008 and a likely major project area in 2008, 2009 and beyond. The concept is appealing to business users and allows rapid development of useful applications. As I have previously... Read More..

Categories: Financial Services, Mash ups, SOA concepts, Web2.0

Rich Internet Applications and SOA: Too many choices?

By Ronan Bradley on February 26, 2008 12:40 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Faced by the uphill struggle of justifying SOA to business managers who find the benefits of SOA hard to understand let alone quantify, it is tempting to link it to other areas of technology innovation which are (we hope) easier... Read More..

Categories: Mash ups, Product news, SOA Predictions, SOA concepts, Web2.0

Mash-ups and the elusive SOA business case

By Ronan Bradley on January 29, 2008 5:52 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

It is almost 9 months since I have blogged on ebizq. In 2008 I intend to make this my main blogging platform although I will continue to blog from time to time on the Lustratus blog as well. While I... Read More..

Categories: Market trends, Mash ups, SOA Predictions, Web2.0

JackBe: nimble AJAX clients for SOA?

By Ronan Bradley on October 5, 2006 8:51 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

AJAX remains one of the hotter topics around the industry with the initial excitement now translating into actual product announcements – most recently Tibco and JackBe. A lot of these announcements are linking strongly back into the SOA space and... Read More..

Categories: Market trends, Product news, SOA concepts, Web2.0

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