...at least when it comes to discussion on the web. Google announced its OpenSocial social networking API project just 5 days ago—and now the company's own search engine reports over 7,700,000 hits for OpenSocial. And it's still alpha...

Arch BPM blogger-cum-analyst Sandy Kemsley references an interesting conversation she had with some webMethods customers at Software AG's Integration World event where the customers pooh pooh the BPM vendors who don't provide the whole integration...

Back in September, Oracle announced that it had acquired privately-held Enterprise Role Management (ERM) player Bridgestream continuing its identity management-through-acquisition strategy. With many eyes focused on the company's Oracle Open World...

I've lost count of the number of times I've seen throwaway comments exhorting companies to create a centre of excellence (CoE) (mostly, for initiatives like SOA or BPM). Vendor / pundit / analyst / journalist: Having trouble? Establish a centre of...

Andrew McAfee at Harvard Business school poses an interesting question: do 'managers' belong on the list of knowledge workers whose jobs are being transformed by information technology? His question is prompted by a number of...

I just came across Steve Jones' post, Nodding dog alignment - the perils of aligning to people not business, in which he points out the sad reality that many IT organisations, which believe they are aligned with the business, aren't actually...