While the enterprise software business remains a good one, integration hardware appliances continue to grab headlines. With Oracle’s Exalogic and, now, IBM’s PureSystems , unveiled at Impact 2012, the integration hardware appliance product pipeline seems primed. These machines are said to cope with complexity, one of the biggest hurdles to software integration today, by ”canning” known good integration configurations. [...]

Brand loyalty is derived from winning the hearts and minds of your customers. It is won by invoking a sense of dedication, passion, and excitement that other products simply can’t provide. You have to turn your customers into brand advocates. When you’ve got brand advocates, they form communities, organize events, and ultimately promote your products and [...]

Oracle sponsored the recently concluded CloudCon Virtualization online event. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Jyothi Swaroop, Product Director, Oracle Fusion Middleware – talked about the need to "bullet-proof" your Cloud and SOA in a couple of webcasts at the event. Abstract:Cloud computing is changing how enterprises look at end-to-end IT operations. As cloud adoption [...]

Next week there will be BizTalk event in Milan. Overnet Education in collaboration with Microsoft Italy and User Group Italiano Connected System will organize, for the first time an interesting event related to BizTalk Server and integration services with the presence of international speakers. Myself, Sandro, Tord and Saravana will speak at this event. Event is organized by Nino Crudele in [...]

If you’re innovating with Oracle Fusion Middleware, then you need to know that the Call for Nominations for the 2012 Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation Awards is open now through July 17, 2012.

#bizarch The obvious ones – Apple, Amazon, Microsoft General comments

“The new market disruption is the migration of a large number of demanding customers away from phones-as-voice-products to phones-as-computing-products. The low-end disruption is the migration of a large number of less demanding customers from branded phones to unbranded, commodity phones. … The new market disruption is [...]

The concept of code ownership is always a touchy topic. When a vendor builds a custom application for you, who owns the code of that application? Your contract hopefully says that you do, but what does that really mean? Can you access the source code of the application, and if so, can you understand the source [...]

Progress Software has been recognized as QAD’s Technology Partner of the Year, so we sat down to chat with them about why Progress was picked, what makes a good partnership and how the industry is changing. Progress Guys (PG): In your words, why was Progress selected for this prestigious award? Progress was selected to be Partner [...]

The Federal Government’s poor IT performance is an old story, but it got renewed attention this week because of two new documents.  The first was Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel’s release of his final “Shared First” strategy document which sets guidelines that should lead to better returns on IT investment.  The other event was a memo from Lesley Field, [...]

Appian is on the road again after a short break following Appian World 2012 and the Gartner Business Process Management (BPM) Summit . If you are just learning about BPM, continuing your education, or wanting to learn about the latest industry trends and network with peers, we have an event for you. First up is the annual ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum from [...]

I’m the father of two young boys. It’s clear to me that the more Charlie and Henry learn to share, the better it is for everybody. Their play is more rewarding. They learn from each other. I don’t have to buy them two of everything. Federal CIO Steven Van Roekel wants federal agency CIOs to embrace precisely [...]

It has been a few weeks since my last post. Why, well I have been busy promoting my BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook , which was published last month. I recommend you to buy a copy (eBook and/or printed version) if you haven’t done so already. A few weeks ago, just before the book was published, I had a [...]

Part 2 Last time, I wrote about the challenges mobile telcos are facing – how they are in danger of becoming utility bitpipes to the Internet and how some are responding by ensuring subscribers receive high quality, proactive customer service. Having high customer service ambitions is one thing, but how do companies take it further? How [...]

Agile development and composite applications are a hallmark of SOA these days, but they are not without their difficulties. The push to rapidly deploy composite apps complicates the life of the QA team, whose members must now create test beds to work with a mishmash of services. Some of these services are complete and in operation, while [...]

The integration PM team is very pleased to announce the release of a new version of our pre-configured SOA/BPM VirtualBox image for testing and evaluation. This VirtualBox appliance contains a fully configured, ready-to-use SOA/BPM/Webcenter 11.1.1.6.0 installation. All you need is to install Oracle VM VirtualBox on your desktop/laptop and import the SOA/BPM appliance and you are ready to try [...]

Among other reasons, Apple’s successful entry into the mobile market is largely due to designing and delivering an intuitive, intelligent, and mobile computing device into the hands of consumers. Although smartphones have been around since the early 90s, Apple unleashed the next generation of smarter, more intelligent phones that are also fun and easy to use. The Business [...]