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HP recently followed up its December plan to release its WebOS mobile platform and development tools with a proposed timeline.  The company also recently released Enyo 2.0, the webOS developer’s tool that enables users to distribute their Enyo-based webOS applications across other platforms. When it’s all said and done, WebOS will be given to the open [...]

Writing these stories so far on community members has been a great experience and I received a lot of positive feedback. The stories continue with the fourth story in the BizTalk Community Series that brings active BizTalk community members to the foreground. The story today is on Abhijit Mahato . He is a Microsoft Community Contributor since 2011, a blogger [...]

Here at Appian, we are gearing up for our biggest global user conference yet.  This is the 4th Appian World conference , and the first to feature a multiple tracks that cater to the diverse and growing audience expected to attend this April. For Appian World 2012 , we will be featuring a BPM Beginner, Appian Developer, and Business track featuring.  Each track [...]

I enjoyed Adam Deane’s recent post on “BPM: Priorities.” He points out how limited typical BPM systems are in dealing with the complexities of how work actually gets done based on the often chaotic nature of how business and task priorities constantly change. In my opinion, this is where Social BPM capabilities become so critical. The problem is, most [...]

Strategic Move Driven by Global SOA Governance Paradigm Los Angeles, CA. – January 17, 2012 – SOA Software, a leading provider of SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API Management products, is extending its presence to the Middle East region, the company announced today.  The strategic move serves a growing demand for SOA governance automation solutions [...]

As reported in Federal Computer Week , a January 19 report from the Defense Business Board (DBB) states that “pursuing IT efficiencies could save DoD between 25 and 50 percent on annual expenditures, while also improving mission effectiveness and achieving return on investment even ahead of schedule.” The report outlines a four-step approach of “normalizing, standardizing and rationalizing applications; [...]

Using the AQ Adapter in a cluster environment, can cost you a lot of temporary tablespace. When you use AQ for dequeuing events and process them further with OSB or SOA Suite, there is always a connection to the database. This connection is waiting for messages to appear on the Queue (it is subscribed). From middleware perspective [...]

I received notice of a Victorian government position offering $106k, as follows, today: BRMS Developer (WebSphere ILOG JRules) You will have proven experience as a BRMS Developer within a Java/JEE environment using IBM‘s WebSphere ILOG JRules platform. You will have implementation experience using integration technologies (e.g. Web Services, JMS) and have the ability to liaise with and engage [...]

FICO reported 9% growth in revenues year over year. the bulk of revenues and all the growth was in pre-configured Decision Management applications FICO score revenues were half as much, w/ B2B growing as B2C (myFICO) waned tools revenues were less than half again as much and flat optimization (XPress) was up Blaze Advisor was down This is in sharp contrast to [...]

In December 2011, Version 1.0 of ” Information Principles for the UK Public Sector ” (pdf) was published by the Cabinet Office . The principles have been endorsed by both the CIO and CTO councils within government. What surprised me is how good this document is. The approach taken recognises that the principles will be implemented in diverse ways according to [...]

Using the AQ Adapter in a cluster environment, can cost you a lot of temporary tablespace. When you use AQ for dequeuing events and process them further with OSB or SOA Suite, there is always a connection to the database. This connection is waiting for messages to appear on the Queue (it is subscribed). From middleware perspective [...]

There is a new BizTalk blog. Another one, yes targeted for BizTalk administrators. Why? There are many blogs out there. Yet most of them are focused on the developer. There is not much on BizTalk administrative topics nor one blog where BizTalk administrators share their knowledge, and experience between each other and with the community. Jeroen Hendriks [...]

# entarch There is a common fallacy among enterprise architects that radical structural and behavioural change can and should be driven by a few simple and powerful ideas. Alas, the public sector is strewn with the disastrous consequences of this fallacy. We can find countless examples from the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK. For [...]

There’s nothing like an initial public offering (IPO) to get people to sit up and notice a company.  IPOs are only possible when companies are delivering novel solutions that offer great value and facilitate strong revenue growth.  That’s the case with Guidewire, a software company that’s built enterprise applications to support the core systems of property & [...]