SOA filling the Gaps

On March 19th I participated in STKI Summit . participating in this Israeli Market analysis conference is  an habit. I aprticpated in 2011 , 2010  and 2008 . My consist particiaption indicates that, at  least in my opinion, it is a valuable event.  This year theme was IT Revolution Consumer Power . The Consumer centirc IT revolution is not totally new, it was discussed in previous year Summit Presentations, as one of the driving forces. I am attaching links to the presentations: Jimmy Schwarzkopf - IT Market in Israel 2012 Pini  Cohen - Trends in Infrastructure: Paradigm Shift Shahar Geiger Maor - Networking Trends , EndPoints Trends Einat Shimoni - Trends in Enterprise Applications, Web & Analytics Galit Fein - Office of the CIO Office of the CMO market Trends 2012 I did not find a link to the new analyst and Research Assistant  Liza Bodogin 's presentation on ECM, Talent Training and Social Applications. Probably it is included in Ein...

I recently read Tien Tzue 's post titled The End of ERP . As usual, I suspect the validity of statements beginning with the End of ... without a question mark in the end. Tien Tzue's statement is not an exception. According to Tien Tzue there is a shift from 20th century products based economy to 21th century Service subscription economy, therefore ERP is doomed. He refers to the acquisitions of Cloud ERP solutions companies,  Successful Factors by SAP and Taleo by Oracle , as an End Of Life signs of traditional ERP.   No ERP company can afford to ignore Cloud based ERP, but that does not mean that SAP, Oracle and other traditional vendor, are going to kill the goose who lays golden eggs i.e. their traditional On-Premise ERP suits. SaaS based ERP is a better fit for some enterprises and Traditional ERP fits better for other enterprises. Three years ago I already discussed the issue of Future Applications: SaaS or Traditional .   Basically it i...

In my Vendor's Survival posts I wrote about many leading vendors. Few posts were on Microsoft:  Will Microsoft survive until 2021? - revisited Will Microsoft survive until 2021? Vendors Survival: Will Microsoft Survive until 2018? I also posted about Vendors technologies, strategies and acquisitions related to their Long Term survival. The post  Microsoft's Skype acquisition: Warning Signs ahead is an example. Yesterday, there was a long Microsoft Azure Service Outage . The reason for the outage was a time miscalculation for a leap year .  A long Service Outage is not unique to Windows Azure's PaaS  platform. There were long Service Outage in services provided by other Cloud Computing vendors such as Amazon and Google . The outage has nothing to do with Microsoft's Long Term Survival probability.   The reason for the outage is related to Microsoft's Survival: It is an indication of a very poor Software  Quality Assurance . Yesterday Microsoft proved th...