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Technology: Tracking Vendor Evolution

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner has Magic and Quadrants. Forrester has Waves. Now CMSWatch has branded their own approach, a new kind of analyst chart, one that tries to show vendor evolution. It’s cool, but maybe they need to come up with a shorter…

SOA: The SOA Divide

By Dick Weisinger

While the hype surrounding SOA isn’t going away, a drill-down into who’s actually using the technology shows that there’s still a long ways to go. Forrester found that only 38 percent of companies with more than 1000 people are not…

SOA: Integration Tool of Choice

By Dick Weisinger

Most users of SOA think the best thing about SOA are its integration capabilities. AmberPoint, an SOA governance software vendor, surveyed 300 IT professionals that were well versed in SOA technologies. Users cited the following benefits for SOA: 74.9% found…

SaaS: Is Multi-tenancy Really an Advantage in On-Demand?

By Dick Weisinger

Salesforce.com, Microsoft and others are promoting SaaS multi-tenancy as a competitive advantage for their on-line offerings. Multi-tenancy means that a single software instance is used by and supports multiple organizations. How can this feature make companies more competitive? The advantage…

SaaS: Microsoft Shoots for the Clouds

By Dick Weisinger

First there were the desktop wars. Then the browser wars. Now Microsoft is challenging players like Amazon, Google, and smaller companies like Zoho for dominance in the Cloud. When the browser wars started, Bill Gates made a dramatic change in…