Well, it’s already a few weeks ago that we discussed three viewpoints on integration that may help to unfreeze your local Enterprise Application Integration expert. I stated that integration is actually something you want to avoid: it’s not a...
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Chat with a Robot who has an un-predictive personality!
For those of us who thought they had seen it all with technology, here is a whole new experience. Go to www.jabberwacky.com and have a chat with a robot! George is both an online interactive partner in best chat room style and has a visual screen...
Read moreCan’t Innovate, Won’t Innovate
‘We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.’… Albert Einstein really knew his stuff. The adoption of standards, specifically Web standards, across the IT industry has been as defining a change to...
Read moreThe Boundaryless Enterprise
There's an interesting tectonic shift in IT these days. For decades we've focused on applications and data, with users sitting at the fringe poking the application to make it do things (register a lead, update customer details, create a purchase...
Read moreTrust the personal experience; recognise the corporate ‘adverblog’
As you may have gathered by past Blogs I am deeply fascinated by the social and business changes which are now growing from the changing technologies of, in this case, Web 2.0, and in other areas SOA. Couldn’t resist trying to work out why...
Read moreUnavailable Soon or no two are ever the same!
I have blogged before about the general trend towards standardisation and globalisation with what, seems to me, to introduce the inevitable question; ‘what about differentiation?’ There are a series of, please forgive the pun, standard answers to...
Read more7 Ways to scare EAI experts (part I)
Enterprise Application Integration. Sometimes, you just can’t help associating it with a absurdist theatre play. Two EAI experts are sitting on a bench, somewhere in a deserted place. They are awaiting the arrival of someone named Godot. But Godot...
Read moreThe ‘memory reset’ feature
It’s been said that the IT profession has the worse collective memory of all. Perhaps this is down to its relative immaturity or perhaps this is down to the sheer pace of innovation and adoption of IT in business. Many folks believe it is a...
Read moreIs Technology Asynchronous and Business Process Synchronous?
I have been wondering about a very strange issue – synchronicity, or why some much of what we is asynchronous, but so much of our organisational management is synchronous. To bring this right down to earth and reality for systems and solutions...
Read moreFrom Medieval to Pre-Fab Software
I've been using the metaphor of managaging enterprise software as something akin to city planning for some time now. It started when I happened across a McKinsey article called The Paris Guide to IT Architecture, which takes the position that we...
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