It is with great pleasure that we welcome Josie Sephton into the fold as the latest addition to the Freeform Dynamics team. Josie may be a fledgling Freeformer, but is a highly experienced telecom analyst and consultant with a solid track...

When I first started to research the text analytics industry about three years ago, people didn't understand why I was so interested in this nascent marketplace. I had always anticipated how important it would be. I remember working at Bell...

Today saw the start of Green IT 08 at the Design Centre, Islington. It's a combination mini-exhibition and conference. It was interesting to see a mix of customers, vendors and analysts sharing their views. And, my, how the field has consolidated...

Just after I returned from last month's IBM SOA IMPACT Conference, the Hurwitz team started to interview companies for case studies to be included in the second edition of SOA For Dummies. So for me, one of the benefits of attending IMPACT was...

I spent part of last week at CA's (Computer Associates in the old days) industry analyst meeting. My overall impression is very positive. CA is a complicated company with a complicated history. Often when a company has a near death experience,...

e-Access is a yearly conference in London reviewing accessibility and technology. I could not attend last year so I found it particularly interesting to compare the change in emphasis over two years. See my blog Accessibility to direct the...

The question of how to combine BPM and SOA came up a lot here at TIBCO's TUCON user event—and, a little disappointingly, the standard response seems to typically revolve around reinventing the three-tier architecture of the 1990s, just with...

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Oracle announced on April 29th 2008 that it had received approval of the European Commission and subsequently completed its acquisition of BEA Systems, Inc. Oracle President, Charles Phillips, said, The addition of BEA will accelerate...

A cheeky little outsider from Spain has been quietly snitching large unified communication (UC) deals from under the noses of major competitors. (Reminder: a major benefit of UC is the acceleration of business processes, especially when...

I have been thinking a lot about the evolution of virtualization lately and so I was intrigued when a company I had never heard of called Desktone asked to come in for a briefing. When I heard that the company specialized on desktop...

Don't you just hate it when another woolly ambiguous term is forced upon us? When I was approached by yet another journalist the other day asking me my thoughts on the impact of cloud computing, I simply sighed and told them it is a bit like Web...

I recently had an interesting conversation about classification and search with James Zubok, CFO of Brainware, Inc. Brainware is a Virginia based company that was once part of SER Systems AG, a former German ECM company. Brainware provides...

The last few days have involved me in a number of meetings with both vendors and end customers of all sizes. For much of the week I spent time at the Infosec security show in London but I also managed to squeeze in meetings with ProCurve, once...

Sirit and Reva Systems announced at the beginning of last week that METRO Group is deploying Sirit's INfinity 510 UHF RFID reader and Reva's TAP 331 appliance as part of the recently announced expanded rollout at METRO Group's Real brand...

I have just picked up the news that Microsoft has unveiled its BizTalk RFID Mobile platform. A previously private beta version of the software was made available on April 18th 2008, and general availability is promised for later in 2008. Since...

I was busily working away when I got a call from a hedge fund manager. Now, I don't really know that many hedge fund managers so I thought this could be a good education. This fund manager—no I don't remember his name—had a request....

Over the years I've been helping to run MWD I've been to quite a few events, talked to many enterprise IT folks and talked to many tech vendors, too—and one of the topics that comes up most often is the relationship between BPM and SOA....

Last week I attending IBM's Impact conference which Sandy Carter, VP of SOA for IBM, contends is the largest SOA conference in the world. With more than 6,000 attendees all focused on SOA, I think she might be right. So, it is interesting to...

For many years now there has been intense discussion within the IT industry highlighting the absolute need for IT to get much closer to the business clients it supports and whose daily activities would not be possible without the use of IT...