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The other day I read a post from David Norfolk ("The MDM tarpit") which generated some lively comment. You can read the post yourself, but to briefly summarise, David highlighted a view that Master Data Management (MDM) should really... Read More..

Back in June I was invited to speak as part of the London leg of TIBCO's NOW roadshow, which focused primarily on Cloud computing and TIBCO's new Silver offering (you can see what we think about that specifically in this... Read More..

A couple of months back I had a brief Twitter exchange with David Bressler of Progress Software (@djbressler), following a comment I'd seen from Judith Hurwitz (@jhurwitz) at Progress' analyst day regarding the lack of brand awareness that the company... Read More..

Something that's been sloshing gently around in my head for a little while came into focus the other day on reading a post by Brenda Michelson: Unintentional Cloud Watching >> Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architects. Namely, that the link between... Read More..

Joe McKendrick (once again!) has another post which caught my blogreader today. This time he is pondering the relationship between SOA and data governance: If data governance is inadequate - information is outdated, out of sync, duplicated, or plain inaccurate... Read More..

Joe McKendrick over at ZDNet has been pondering CIO "SOA Advisor" Nicholas Petreley's definition of SOA: a networked subroutine No wonder Joe's not sure about it! Nicholas' definition is closer to that of a web service and even that's being... Read More..

As part of yesterday's release of the latest iteration of its webMethods Insight product Software AG announced an OEM partnership with Progress Software. This announcement adds the Actional runtime SOA management and monitoring technology (which Progress acquired back in January... Read More..

The question of how to combine BPM and SOA came up a lot here at TIBCO's TUCON user event - and, a little disappointingly, the standard response seems to typically revolve around reinventing the three-tier architecture of the 1990s, just... Read More..

Over the years I've been helping to run MWD I've been to quite a few events, talked to many enterprise IT folks and talked to many tech vendors, too - and one of the topics that comes up most often... Read More..

HP yesterday announced long-awaited (at least as far as we are concerned) enhancements to its SOA software and services, which see the company beginning to realise the potential of its acquisition of Systinet (via Mercury) when it comes to SOA... Read More..