Perfect Integration 3 – Common language: semantics first
This post will elaborate on messaging and transformation (part I), and explain how information exchange works in the daily world, considering simple or complex information exchanges. That will then be related to IT, and the basic ways of “writing down” information in IT will be explained. If you want to have a chat with someone [...]
Perfect Integration 2 – Common subset and transformation
Number two in the series, this post deals with the common subset found on all levels in the previous post: what is the shared interest (Business) which information do you want to share (Information) which definitions are mutually exchangeable (Information Systems) how do you want to exchange ideas (Infrastructure) Information exchange form: messaging After having [...]
Perfect Integration 1 – Architectural Approach
First post in a series of 5-10, I will release all my views and opinions on the Art of Integration. I challenge you to disagree, and bash me with arguments and reasoning. Feel free to shoot from the hip and aim at the heart, anything goes really. I am absolutely convinced that I am right [...]
Social Business Revolution
Social Business (R)evolution by Martijn Linssen (sample) The current world is abuzz about Social. Social networks, social media, Social Business: all things social. People, Twitterati and even a small number of companies embrace the diverse ideas and notions of Social, trying to sell and implement them That movement is a natural counter reaction to [...]
Twitter delegates the monetisation strain to its developers
On the Twitter Development Google Group, Twitter announced today that they’ll stop whitelisting. Whitelisting basically lifts an application developer’s limitation of 150 Twitter requests per hour, that mere mortals suffer from Beginning today, Twitter will no longer grant whitelisting requests. We will continue to allow whitelisting privileges for previously approved applications; however any unanswered requests [...]
Tibbr – the revolution starts right here
Today I attended the launch of Tibco’s tibbr in London. A perfectly short and great event of a few hours with excellent food, drinks, very interesting speakers and some great panel remarks – not in that order. Ram Menon, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Marketing presented a very clear overview emphasizing the punch-line: when information [...]
The Follow-or-Not Flowchart
I few days ago I published my “To Tweet or ReTweet flowchart“. I think it is time to publish my “To Follow or Not To Follow” flowchart as well, as I find that I hardly make any exception at all on my internal, unwritten rules for deciding to follow a new follower or not. This [...]
Why customer service can’t be outsourced
After briefly participating in last night’s #custserv chat, I found myself dissatisfied with chats like these via a medium like that. I like to get definitions straightened out and agreed upon when they get “volatile” so to say. So, for future chats, please find a web page that does (and can be scanned in a [...]
Twitter punctuation manners
A small post about punctuation – in my general writing, and tweets If you haven’t noticed, I leave out a period at the end of every paragraph – on this blog, when I comment here and there, in emails – period (pun intended) I think the following whitespace makes it perfectly clear that a paragraph [...]
The To Tweet Or ReTweet Flowchart
A few posts ago I blogged about behaving differently on Twitter or not. One thing lead to the other, and there was a small comment-conversation about ReTweeting. So, inspired by Innes Fisher, here’s a small scheme. At the very bottom, there is “the ass-option”. Almost none of you will ever end up there, but I [...]
The False Promise of "Adopt now, and all will adapt"
It’s the most widespread lie across IT. Translated from seller to buyer, it says: just buy our stuff, it’s great, pretty soon everyone will have it and then you’ll have the advantage over all the others. It’s how hypes made it in, trends, useful stuff too, but also ERP and CRM trying to take the [...]
Old meets new world: enterprise UX
A few days ago, I got a message from Derek Singleton of Software Advice telling me about a survey they’re conducting: Ten Consumer Web UI Themes We’d Like to See in Business Applications is what it is called Software Advice apparently is a company offering free advice for software buyers, and although I don’t have [...]
Integration: your place or mine? Adopt vs adapt
Adopt versus adapt is the central theme in Integration. For the last 15 years, it’s been the central question in my working life: who will adopt, and who will have to adapt? It is the most important question, as doing business is not only about mutual understanding and partnerships, but also about flattering “kings, princes [...]
