Enterprise Integration interview by Richard Seroter
I got the chance to participate in Richard’s Interview Series – I was number 40 and you might know what that number means to me Richard is a principal architect and Microsoft MVP, and well-versed in integration on a whole, especially Microsoft / BizTalk. He’s been blogging since 2007, authored / contributed to three books [...]
Amazon AWS is the Cloud (for now anyway)
Every day I talk, write and comment about the “Cloud”. Every time I mention the cloud I try to make sure that I add the name of the relevant cloud operator, “Rackspace Cloud, “MS Cloud” (Azure) or “HP Cloud”. Somehow all of these cloud titles don’t right to me – it seems the only title [...]
MIT Report on Social Business: What are Companies Really Doing?
The folks over at MIT teamed up with Deloitte to produce quite an interesting report around Social Business which included responses from almost 3,500 people around the world. The goal of the report was to shed some more light around what is happening in the world of social business; which includes both customers and employees. [...]
Opportunities and Challenges for IT Managers
Recently I was invited by IBM to host a lunch in Auckland that bought together a handful of IT managers from a range of organizations. the aim of the lunch was to have a discussion, in a neutral forum, about the opportunities and challenges that cloud brings to their organizations. the makeup of the participants [...]
Cloud Migration – The Pain And The Opportunity
Running a number of businesses, some using the cloud and some not, I’ve seen firsthand the reality of what it takes to move systems from traditional on-premise delivery to the cloud. Whether it’s because of push-back from users, IT department concerns, functional gaps or differences in the way applications are written, the migration is hard. [...]
REST definition and its place within Enterprise Integration
In a previous post I explained why REST is useless when it comes to Enterprise Integration. Even though at the very beginning I explicitly stated that Roy Fielding wrote his dissertation entirely in the context of Web and that REST has absolutely no business benefits whatsoever with regards to Enterprise Integration I got surprised to [...]
Collaboration Starts Before We Enter the Workforce
I don’t think anyone can really say when collaboration starts but I think we can all agree that it starts well before we enter the workforce. Most discussions around collaboration today have pertained to the enterprise, but we start to work with and communicate with people far earlier than that. Why don’t we talk about [...]
#nodejs, why I’m basically porting EVERYTHING to it…
Here’s my list of why I’m moving everything to Node.js that I run. Between the enhancements Google gave to JavaScript and the ease of use in writing with the language, it provides the least resistance of any framework and language stack out there. Node.js + Express.js or Bricks.js + Jade + Every DB Choice on [...]
Huddle Picks Up Massive Series C Round
Exciting news this morning from Cloud content management and collaboration company Huddle. The UK founded but now US/UK headquartered company is this morning announcing a Series C funding round to the tune of $24M. The round takes Huddle’s funding to $40 million in the five or so years since it was launched. Huddle is an [...]
22 USC 1461 sec 501 Why the proposed changes could be awesome
The US Government wants to modify 22 USC 1461 sec 501 so that they can put propaganda on the internet. There is a risk of people being exposed to said propaganda, but wouldn’t you really like to know what the US Government is saying to other countries, and specifically to the citizens of those other [...]
Box Solves the Enterprise Adoption Roadblock
I’ve spent the last few years watching the meteoric rise of cloud content management vendor Box. Their approach has been to empower individual groups or business units within an organization to collaborate more effectively around their content and then to expand their presence within the organization. The “land and expand” strategy is a valid one, [...]
Collaboration in the Workplace: Where do You Start?
Let’s say you’re an executive at a larger size organization with around 100,000 employees and are looking to infuse your company with collaboration, where do you start? Now, I don’t mean starting in term of developing use cases or reviewing vendors. I mean, which department or group do you start with if you want to do [...]
It’s Morning in Venture Capital
Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. They are frustrated by the past decade of subpar returns for the sector. The most recent report to weigh in on the troubles of the industry was produced by the esteemed Kauffman Foundation. There are obvious reasons the industry [...]
Simple Service Enterprise – part 6
In my latest post, I recapped on the previous posts and started to take Integration from a business point of view. I’ll continue to do that here, and try to mix in technical details without it getting too confusing. Wish me luck! Here’s the conversation again: Hey Tom! What did the Red Sox do last [...]
Silicon Valley Has A Short Attention Span
Sometimes people ask me why I’m always writing blog posts and speaking at events. “Simple,” I say. “Silicon Valley has a short attention span. If I don’t keep my name in front of people, they’ll forget who I am.” If they don’t believe me, I respond with what I like to call the Yahoo test. [...]
