After an extended hiatus, we're relaunching our podcasting efforts with a planned series of discussions focusing on the challenges and issues associated with software delivery processes and competence in enterprises. We've called this podcast...

As part of yesterday's release of the latest iteration of its webMethods Insight product Software AG announced an OEM partnership with Progress Software. This announcement adds the Actional runtime SOA management and monitoring technology (which...

Yesterday EMC, IBM, and Microsoft jointly announced Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) - a new specification designed to enable interoperability between content management repositories. The proposed standard, which was also being...

Earlier this week I attended an IBM press and analyst summit on the topic of Business Event Processing. To coincide with this, the company made some announcements on its BEP leadership, with over 3700 BEP customers. This is fairly early days in...

Tony Baer's one of the analysts who's picked up on Microsoft's recent announcement that it's joining the OMG and backing UML and BPMN. His post is pretty interesting and outlines some of the relevant history—particularly relating to DSLs and...

Joe McKendrick (once again!) has another post which caught my blogreader today. This time he is pondering the relationship between SOA and data governance: If data governance is inadequate—information is outdated, out of sync,...

Joe McKendrick over at ZDNet has been pondering CIO SOA Advisor Nicholas Petreley's definition of SOA: a networked subroutine No wonder Joe's not sure about it! Nicholas' definition is closer to that of a web service and even...