For the past year, we have been working with a company called Covast to connect their B2B Suite product (built on Microsoft BizTalk) to the GXS Trading Grid. The idea was to build a highly functional connector using a combination of AS2 (for moving files back and forth) and web services (for everything else). We [...]
Read More»Managed Services and Outsourcing are a big topic in B2B these days, but people interpret these phrases in different ways, particularly "outsourcing". Outsourcing’s traditional meaning — paying someone else to do something for you (like ADP in payroll) — has morphed to include other meanings, including: Paying someone else to "employ" your staff Paying someone [...]
Read More»I’ve spent the last two days at webMethods Fairfax Headquarters, receiving "preview training" of Fabric 7.0, which includes a revamped Process Engine, My WebMethods Server and Optimize (the BAM, or Business Activity Monitoring, tool). I’m really excited about the new platform, as it is a nice combination of new features, improved integration and improved performance. [...]
Read More»I don’t intend to shamelessly plug popular business authors this year, but I am a big fan of Geoffrey A. Moore. He is probably most famous for his book Crossing the Chasm, but lately I’ve been reading his latest, Dealing with Darwin. Where Crossing the Chasm dealt in a compelling way with introducing new technology [...]
Read More»I’m planning more posts on product data management — as well as a series on partner enablement — but first I need to dig out from the holidays! Happy New Year. In the meantime, I was delighted to learn that one of my favorite business book authors, Ram Charan, has a new book coming out. [...]
Read More»If you are interested in virtualization, VAR Business has a good high level article. What I like is the relatively clear discussion of traditional VM architectures (like VMWare and Microsoft), versus the new hypervisor method (also VMWare and XenSource). Oddly, the biggest challenge in virtualization is management. That may seem like an obvious statement (isn’t [...]
Read More»Some years are so busy, I can only remember the last quarter or so…. I strolled down my personal work memory lane by cleaning out email, and for the industry as a whole reading this very concise eWeek article. Enjoy. Powered by Qumana
Read More»Will the proprietary world of MQ Series and TIBCO Rendezvous be assailed by open standards, as have so many other lucrative enterprise software niches? It is a decided possibility. I listened in to an interesting webinar yesterday with speakers from JP Morgan Chase and Iona Technologies, discussing the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol, which is a [...]
Read More»If there is one thing no one likes, it’s tattle tales… and one of the biggest in the business world is GDSN, the Global Data Synchronization Network — or more specifically the process of implementing GDSN. In my last post, I wrote a little about the sorry state of product data quality and wrapped up [...]
Read More»Sometimes, very rarely, I visit the press releases section of our official website. I say this not because it is not a source of tremendous information (note to readers, the same group is tasked with monitoring this blog….), but because GXS is really good about internal communication, so it is not necessary to know what [...]
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