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SOA in Action Winners!

jmola — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:11:17 -0500

Congratulations to our SOA in Action prize-winning attendees! A brand new Flipcam Camcorder is on its way to Tatiana Outkina of Toronto. Congratulations Tatiana! And copies of the new book Event Processing: Designing IT Systems for Agile Companies by SOA...

Government Embrace of Open Source: Some Thoughts

jmola — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:00:36 -0500

Advancements are being made that prove open source software is becoming mainstream in the U.S. federal government, argues Brian Gentile, CEO of Jaspersoft, in a new blog post. At this week's GOSCON Conference in Washington D.C., DoD CIO David Wennergren...

SOA in Action is TOMORROW! Don't Miss Out!

jmola — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:49:19 -0500

Just wanted to alert readers that our SOA in Action Virtual Conference begins tomorrow, Oct. 28, at 11 a.m. ET.The conference kicks off with a keynote address by Forrester's Randy Heffner: Doing SOA for Business: Fixing the Worst Big SOA...

Orchestration in the Cloud: Podcast with Lem Lasher and Jon Pyke

jmola — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:41:44 -0500

I recently had the pleasure of speaking to both CSC's Chief Innovation Officer and President, Office of Innovation, Lem Lasher and Cordys' Chief Strategy Officer Jon Pyke on their companies' recent partnership announced this month (see press release on ebizQ...

Around the Web: Oracle OpenWorld 2009

jmola — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:53:41 -0500

It's the third day of Oracle OpenWorld with only one more to go, so here's a quick roundup of the buzz around the web over the event, held this year at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.InformationWeek's Mary Hayes Weier...

Web 2.0 Roundup: SaaS/Cloud Talk

jmola — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:25:11 -0500

Lots of talk about issues surrounding SaaS/cloud on the ebizQ blogosphere this week and last. Ted Cuzillo started off the discussion with his post "The Real Reason for the SaaS Ascendancy." Quick preview:"Mark Albala witnessed something through a client that...

A "Bird's Eye View" of Your Business Transactions (For Free, Too)

jmola — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:28:57 -0500

Just spoke with Oren Elias, CEO of Correlsense, a provider of business transaction monitoring solutions, about their recent announcement (see press release here).The company is taking a new approach to application management (now usually called transaction management) with the SharePath...

Google Outages: Big Trouble for Cloud Computing?

jmola — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:35:54 -0500

Signed into Gmail yesterday morning to send a "how's it goin'?" IM to my best friend (cut me a break -- my daytime social interaction is limited to three coworkers in the office, tops)...only to realize my Contacts list wouldn't...

What Decision Management Is -- And Is Not

jmola — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:56:56 -0500

Ever wonder what the difference between Decision Management and BPM, BI and Business Rules Management is?ebizQ blogger James Taylor succinctly explains the differences between each of the approaches in a great article published in this month's Business Rules Journal."While there...

Oracle's Larry Ellison: Cloud is "Water Vapor"

jmola — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:25:16 -0500

Hot topic on Twitter today: Oracle chief executive and chairman Larry Ellison's Monday rant on a few topics, including the meaning of cloud computing.Forbes.com reports Ellison said: "Everyone looks around and is like, 'Yah! Like everything is in the cloud,'...

Cloud: A Call for Caution

jmola — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:35:50 -0500

"This is why I would NEVER, NEVER trust my data on any server 'in the cloud.' NEVER. I don't know where people's brains are these days." - Mike, a commenter on Noam Tamarkin's latest blog post at ebizQ.If you've been...

Web 2.0 Roundup: Cloud Coverage

jmola — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:44:59 -0500

"BI in the cloud is of great interest to a sizable market and it will become mainstream more quickly than most expect."So says Brian Gentile, CEO of Jaspersoft, in response to Monday's ebizQ Forum question, "What Challenges Arise With BI...

New Focus : Business Technology Optimization

jprakash — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:38:25 -0500

As part of my blogging focus here at ebizQ, I will be covering Business Technology Optimization. Here is a brief description of Business Technology Optimization: Wikipedia Definition: Business Technology Optimization (BTO) is an enterprise software product category focused on...

Private Cloud , Public Cloud and Inter-Cloud

jprakash — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:05:13 -0500

Lately, my big question for IT professionals is: do you really care about private, public or Inter-Cloud right now? I'm sure you understand what private and public clouds are, so what is Inter-Cloud? Inter-Cloud is a new term coined...

iPhone Enterprise Applications and Device Management

jprakash — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:10:08 -0500

In my recent blog post iPhone in Healthcare. I had a chance to write and discuss security and privacy issues related to Healthcare Apps in iPhone with the ebizQ audience. If you are a Senior Executive or Enterprise IT Planner...