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Consolidation in the ECM market

By Dick Weisinger

A May 2006 report by Gartner shows that OpenText, IBM, FileNet and EMC were market leaders in the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) marketplace.  The report said that the “ECM market is dynamic” and “marked by technology consolidation”.  That consolidation is happening

Will BPMN 2.0 make BPEL irrelevant?

By Dick Weisinger

As technology is speeding up, the lifecycle of standards is shrinking.  Business Process Execution Language or BPEL is one good example.  BPEL has its origins in competing standards sponsored by IBM and Microsoft, WSFL and Xlang.   The two languages were

Business Process Buzzwords — Now SOA 2.0

By Dick Weisinger

The acronyms and names associated with business process optimization continue to evolve.  There was BPR and Workflow, then SOA and Web Services, and now SOA 2.0 with events? The late 80’s to the mid-90’s saw the rise of BPR (Business Process

Does it Really Stack Up?

By Dick Weisinger

Last week Red Hat announced plans to acquire open-source software maker JBoss for $350 million in cash and stock.  This is yet another data point showing the intense industry-wide effort now underway by software vendors to be able to claim single-vendor end-to-end software solutions for the enterprise,

Enterprise Content Mashups (ECM)

By Dick Weisinger

Web Services are powering high-end enterprise IT make-overs with adoption of SOAs. But Web Services are also the force behind a grass-roots phenomena being called ‘Mashups’ It’s Web Services for the masses. What’s happened is that Internet powerhouses like Google, Yahoo!, eBay