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Monthly Archives: September 2006
7 Ways to scare EAI experts (part II)
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 mission in life by itself; it’s merely a prerequisite to do exciting things in business, enabled by systems and information. If you can avoid integration and still achieve the same, do so by all means. Furthermore, …
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 face with a personality too. Best of all he learns bad habits, and is unpredictable in terms of his behaviour, traits which have seen him win the Loebner prize …
Can’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 business IT as the mainframe, the departmental computer and the PC. There are many other defining changes with Web 2.0 promising more (although as a friend recently said to me commenting on a Web …
The 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 order, generate an invoice, and so on). But running through a list of the new generation of technologies we see that the one thing they all have in common is the primacy they place on …
Trust 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 corporate blogging will fail!
Unavailable 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 this question and at the top of the list seems to be the use of price. To give you your low price means I have to master still further cost efficiency and that means more standardisation and more …
7 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 never shows up and the EAI experts seem to have forgotten why they are waiting in the first place. At the end, nothing has happened and nothing has changed. One expert says to the other “shall …
The ‘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 combination of course. But whatever it is I do not believe it is an unfair criticism of the industry to say it appears to be pre-occupied with the future while …
Is 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 design and the reason for my pondering on the issue, we are planning around using new technology abilities to do things ‘on demand’, or as an when needed, and in conjunction with the …
From 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 need to manage IT in a similar way to managing a complex city like Paris. This is well and good, but recently I’ve been thinking that the really interesting thing is the similarity between …
