In my last blog entry, I discussed the river of data that flows between trading partners. This river of data has the potential to deliver far beyond it’s role in business process execution, but there are challenges. The first challenge is establishing a context. The splash of water to the left could be the drop [...]
Read More»Organizations around the world are busy extolling, exploring or arguing with the notion of Cloud Computing, but there is another metaphor that may grow in importance as Cloud Computing matures — the River of data that flows between organizations and their partners which can be tapped for power and profit. Every day, companies exchange millions [...]
Read More»Like many parents, I spend a fair amount of effort trying to help my kids avoid the painful mistakes I made in my life, and I usually fail utterly. This is because most of life’s important lessons are learned “hands-on”, and no matter how much you trust others, there are simply some things you must [...]
Read More»I have been focused of late (a rare luxury for me) on exploring the integration technologies to the emerging cloud computing providers — especially the SaaS guys. Last week I attended Dreamforce 2009, which was an absolutely fantastic experience. Salesforce.com has posted a bunch of the material on the site, and it is worthwhile. While [...]
Read More»As interesting a question as this is, I need to admit upfront that I do not have the answer, but as I was catching up on a couple days of reading, I found two articles that have me wondering if that is net exactly what is going on. When scalable, efficient business models start to [...]
Read More»I came across a nice report of an Accenture Study over at CIO Insight. It is one of those “slideshow” style articles, and had some good statistics about ERP usage, customer integration, etc. But the more I thought about the content, the more I realized two things: We’re all crazy when it comes to our [...]
Read More»I was recently visiting a client to discuss possibly augmenting the work we were doing for them from straight messaging to Managed Services, when a question came up about whether we could connect our services to their ESB. This is not the first time I’ve been asked about this, and while the answer is always [...]
Read More»John Radko, chief technology strategist at GXS, advises the GXS’ leadership team on technology and coordinates and encourages technology advancement across the full range of GXS product lines. These include hosted supply chain automation applications, electronic document interchange (EDI) services and business-to-business (B2B) integration products. John previously led the architecture and construction of the GXS [...]
Read More»Although it may not seem like it, the majority of software maintenance is not maintenance at all – it is enhancement. Enhancements are wonderful, marvelous things, magically bestowing additional capabilities to users, like the granted wishes of a Fairy Godmother from Cinderella – except that the midnight deadline is a “scheduled maintenance window”, and that [...]
Read More»Recent events (economic, technological, business) maybe driving the convergence of two traditionally separate sources of value in the managed services or outsourcing world, specialized knowledge, and scale. Although some organizations have traditionally applied both specialized knowledge and scale, it was far more common for smaller service providers to compete on specialized knowledge — with higher [...]
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