Access and Feeds

Blog Archives

ECM & IBM: FileNet Integration Strategy

By Dick Weisinger

It’s been one year since IBM announced their Information on Demand Initiative (IOD).  Their plan has been to build an on-demand strategy that combines elements of software, research and services, highlighting SOA as a key element in their approach.  This week IBM gave an update…

SOA: Revolution in Computing — Event Stream Processing

By Dick Weisinger

Oracle proposed a vision of next-generation SOA called SOA 2.0 based on asynchronous events being triggered by alerts and event notifications.  While the Oracle marketing machine faltered with that vision, the idea an SOA architecture with ‘smarter’ events may not…

Open Source/SaaS: Software Delivery Models 2.0

By Dick Weisinger

Last week Ray Lane, former Oracle President and now Open-Source proponent at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, eulogized the shrink-wrap box delivery model.  Lane said that the software business is at a “crossroads, with an economic model no longer sustainable”. Lane is…

SOA: Governance needs drive renewed interest in UDDI

By Dick Weisinger

Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) has been a long-ignored component of the SOA framework.  It is an open industry initiative that has been approved as an OASIS standard to allow the registration and discovery of web services.  The current specification is at version 3. UDDI…