It always seems quite ironic to me when I read how industry analysts are accused of ‘bigging up' vendor offerings, when I and my peers seem to spend so much of our time resetting the expectations of over-optimistic marketeers. Indeed,...

One of the most fun debates I have had in recent times was with a couple of execs from IBM and Cognos, and with a senior analyst from IDC, at last week's Information On Demand event in The Hague. The question was innocuous enough: what do you...

It's been a couple of months since I jumped on a plane back from IBM's SOA Impact conference in Las Vegas. For those in the know, this conference is a re-named evolution of the IBM's WebSphere conference series, and for those less so, WebSphere is...