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Monthly Archives: May 2006
SAP comes from Venus
I am ready to leave for Paris, where I will be participating in the Enterprise Architects Council meeting, one of the many, many sessions at Sapphire 2006. Must be a new audience to SAP, these enterprise architects. Ever since NetWeaver and Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA) became the pillars of SAP’s innovation strategy, unidentified objects from all over the IT profession have begun to swarm the skies around Walldorf.
The Augmented Running Experience
Innovation Happens Elsewhere. Now that companies are searching for the way back to innovative value, it’s worthwhile chewing a few introspective minutes on this tiny, little message. Yes, companies can spend their entire IT budget on consolidating the infrastructure, simplifying their systems and even on introducing service-oriented architecture. Thus they become lean, mean and completely flexible and adaptive businesses. But then – sooner or later, after having celebrated this apparent success enough – the big …
Good Guys and Bad Guys
I guess I’m sort of late in discovering certain things. For example, it’s only been months since I found out about 24, the television series that won every imaginable award and is now finishing its 5th highly successful season. In 24, special agent Jack Bauer is humiliated, hurt and embarrassed more in one hour than most business consultants get to endure in 10 lives. When watching the first three seasons on DVD, I gradually began …
Searching, Browsing, Indexing, Tagging, or looking for the answer?
It’s getting really confusing out there with all the claims from all the different technology vendors that only they know how to tell me exactly what I need in order to find the right information at the right time. Funny thing is we can all recognise when we have got the right answer, even if we might struggle to define what we are looking for before hand. So how do you make use of all …
It’s SOA, but not as we know it!
Apologies for abusing a well know line from ‘Star Trek’ by which Dr ‘Bones’ regularly classified all life forms that didn’t quite fit the standard definition of life written round the human form. This on its own will provoke abuse from ‘Trekies’ for it’s out of context use, and from others for using the line at all. And therein lays the point around how should we use the term SOA, or ‘Service Oriented Architecture’.
ASPs – an old idea warmed up?
Suddenly ASps are hot with IDC predicting growth of more than 21% a year compound, but is this real or just based on one market, CRM, and one major supplier, SalesForce.com ?
