SOA filling the Gaps

Less than a year ago I wrote a post titled: BPMS Next Generation:  IBPMS . The post is about Gartner 's new Magic Quadrant of IBPMS, which is very different from previous Gartner's BPMS Magic Quadrants. Only three Leaders left in the IBPMS Magic Quadrant ( IBM , PegaSystems and Appian ) due to a new Use Case: Intelligent Business Process Operation (IBPO).  In the MyTake section of the post I wrote: "Expect changes in Immature markets like IBPMS". Vendors which are no longer Leaders will try to improve their position in this emerging market.  Tibco acquired StreamBase Systems .  StreamBase Systems is  a Complex Event Processing and Real Time Analytics company. This post is about Software AG a former BPMS Leader. a brief history of Software AG BPM History 2006 - The company released a SOA and BPM suite. The suite was developed together with Fujitsu .  As far as BPM is concerned, Software AG used, Fujitsu Interstage branded as Software Ag pro...

Image Source: Wikipedia Steve Ballmer is stepping down as the CEO of Microsoft. You can read Wired article titled: Balmer's Department From Microsoft 10 years Too Late , in order to understand that the last 10 years were not a great success for Microsoft. It is a good opportunity to go back to posts I wrote many years ago, when many people viewed Microsoft as non-vulnerable company. For example, a post I wrote in 2008 was titled: Vendors Survival: Will Microsoft Survive until 2018? .  The post included Reality Check of my 1995 presentation titled: Will Microsoft Survive until 2005?, as well as analyzing new Risk factors.  Read other related posts appearing in the following list: Will Microsoft Survive until 2021? Will Microsoft Survive until 2021? - Revisited Microsoft's Skype acquisition: Warning Signs ahead Read also a less related post titled: Bug 2000 (Y2K) is back in Microsoft's Azure The next step is deciding for yourself: Will Microsoft S...

Many Information Technology professionals, aged 40+ or 50+ has no job and the task of finding a new IT job is at least very difficult task. As far as the reason for this difficulty, is concerned, there are variety of opinions. I participated in a popular discussion in Linkedin Group "Israel High Tech" about   High Tech  veterans work. The arguments for hiring veterans The arguments for hiring veterans were that they have experience, Business Knowledge and Technical skills (or at list many of them have these skills). They will not quit their job for another job and they are willing to do any assignment, even if some years ago they were Managers. If this is the case, so the reason for not hiring them is Agism  e.g. Age Discrimination. The arguments for not hiring veterans The arguments for not hiring 40+ or 50+ aged workers, were that they simply are not qualified. Their knowledge is not up to date.  For example, a Manager who would like to hire Linux K...

More than ten years ago I presented in a local ERP conference in Haifa . I am not an ERP expert. I was invited to present because I worked as a self-employed consultant for GiGa Information Group , which was acquired in February 2003 by Forrester Research .   Instead of presenting non-expert's presentation, I preferred to tell the audience that I am presenting Giga's Analyst's Byron Miller's presentation. Miller's presentation was interesting. He described three ERP states, depicted in the simple image above. I built a simplified image based on his classification. The current state, in 2002, was Suite state. transformation to the other states requires advancements in Technical Integration and in Semantic Standards. The harder task is Semantic Standards, therefore different ERP states are applicable for the same level of Technical Integration. Suite state, in which you have to chose a single ERP vendor solution, is the less desired state. According to...