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...

 Image source: Wikipedia The first part of the trilogy was about the Good Customer . This post is about the Bad Customer. No, the Bad Customer does not shoot the Consultant like Lee Van Cleef  in the picture appearing in the beginning of the post.  The Bad Customer could be The Customer who Knows Everything  or The Self-deprecating Customer  or The Captive  or The Paralyzed Analyzer . What differentiate The Bad from other Customers? Usually,  The Bad Customer does not know what he want to achieve and how he would achieve it. He is not able to define the Consultant's products. The Bad Customer could ask Strategic Consultant to code programs . He may ask a Consultant who is a DBA or an Application Programmer to build an Enterprise Architecture , Infrastructure Architecture or even Business Architecture . He could as well, ask for Strategic consultancy from an ERP Consultant.  The Bad may change the Consultant's assignments, ...

Ten years ago Reuse was the promise of SOA . Almost 15 to 20 years ago Reuse was described as main benefit of Object Oriented .  SOA Reuse is Easy to say and hard to do . 100% Reuse was an unrealistic target. However, even 30% Reuse ratio could provide significant Business Value.  There are Systems or Systems Components, which you can not break into Services reasonably, e.g. Batch Systems or Legacy Systems . People tend to ignore systems that do not fit well to the Service Oriented Architecture due to lack of Reuse or insignificant Reuse. They should not . Instead of ignoring them by fitting them into  Services Framework and Architecture, they should accept the reality, that building Services for these Systems is wrong.  Douglas Adams's Last Chance to see Douglas Adams 's most famous book are  The  Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy  book.  However, Adams's favorite book was: Last Chance to see  which was written together with Mark...

Two years ago I published a post titled: Will Apple Survive until 2021? Apple is not unique. I published other Vendors Long Term Survival posts e.g. Google , Microsoft , HP , Software AG , SUN , EMC . My conclusion was: " My answer is that the probability that it will not survive is higher than the probability that the other vendors (not including Software AG and obviously not including SUN) I discussed will not survive".  My habit is to Revisit, when a significant event occurs. Waze acquisition by Google is a significant event, which should need Anti-Trust clearance. Perhaps this event, is more significant for Apple than for Google . Apple's costly and unsuccessful Maps application is lagging behind Google Maps .  Many Web pages pointed out on two losers, who tried to acquire Waze and failed:Apple and Facebook . Perhaps, there is more than one loser, but The Loser  is not Facebook. Your guess is correct: it is Apple. Maps Business Value Proposition Smart...