Recently in IT Governance Category

Yesterday I spent the evening at a dinner in London as a stand-in for my colleague Bola Rotibi, talking about Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and governing software delivery to a group of around 20 senior IT leaders. Due to my... 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..

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..

This might sound like an odd title for a post, but I was prompted by this ZapThink ZapFlash, via the ever-watchful Todd Biske. The ZapThink note starts off talking about the challenges in SOA adoption that come from organisational issues... Read More..

I've lost count of the number of times I've seen throwaway comments exhorting companies to "create a centre of excellence (CoE) (mostly, for initiatives like SOA or BPM). Vendor / pundit / analyst / journalist: "Having trouble? Establish a centre... Read More..

I've read a number of articles and thought pieces recently that explore the problems with approaches to IT delivery that focus too much on projects as the organising concept - particularly when it comes to SOA adoption. The shortcomings of... Read More..

At the end of last week a webMethods' press release popped into my inbox highlighting a recent demonstration of interoperability between the company's UDDI-based registry (acquired with Infravio), HP's Systinet registry and one of Layer 7 Technologies' SecureSpan XML appliances. ... Read More..

By way of Don Box, I just came across this story-ette. evilapi.com - what a great domain! For those who haven't been following the story of Google's removal of its SOAP API to its search engine, you can catch up... Read More..

I just came across this whitepaper from webMethods (who is not a client) SOA Governance: Enabling Sustainable Success with SOA. Putting to one side the fact that this is from a vendor and the checklist in the Appendix is clearly... Read More..

A few days ago, a friend of mine sent me an email from his Flickr account, asking me to hook up with him. The surprise to me was that I even had a Flickr account - I created it back... Read More..