The Roadmap to ‘Hadoop in the Cloud’
The Twitter ball started rolling again just now. Matt Asay posed an interesting question about Forrester suggesting Hadoop isn’t a great fit for the cloud. (Even) without context Vijay Vijayasankar and I started firing off questions and answers which inevitable led to my promise of writing down the transition plan for it Here it is I’ll start bottom-up, from […]
5+ garages to service your car? Sure
[Image by Expressive]
After a very lively conversation with Holger Müller I decided on “posting it up” – Twitter is fine for conversations but sometimes the 140-char limit just doesn’t cut it.
We discussed Integration, within enterprises. Along th…
How CEP will make SaaS the killer app
I got the insight at TIBCO’s Transform event I blogged about yesterday – how we can finally solve the Customisation Riddle we’ve been unsuccessfully combating in IT for decades. Software as a Service is breathing down our necks and guaranteed to replace quite a few on-premise apps in this decade alone. Starting with your tertiary (cleaning, […]
TIBCO Transform – it says it all
I attended TIBCO’s Transform event in London. Located at the Westminster Bridge Park Plaza hotel, around 600 people were there. Kicked off by Raj Verma, Senior VP of worldwide Marketing, a 2 hour session started that never bored for a minute. Very smoothly Raj led us through a full history of TIBCO, showing impressive figures […]
Hybrid mobile apps will conquer the mobile enterprise
[Image by HLundgaard] There is a difference about how we thinks things will evolve, and how they do. I’ve been wondering about Mobile and app stores for a while – they seem contradictionairy. Mobile has taken such a great flight because of lowered cost and increased availability of Internet for mobile, the old-fashioned telephone has turned […]
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 […]
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 […]
Simple Service Enterprise – part 5
In my first post on SSE I explained why and how I want, and can achieve, and have achieved, an Enterprise Integration paradigm that will give you a device-agnostic, platform-agnostic, tool-agnostic architecture that will free you from being crushed by the two tectonic plates in IT at the moment: diversity in devices, platforms and tools on the […]
Simple Service Enterprise – part 4
Today we’ll take a REST from REST and I’ll touch upon one of the issues I ran into today: the two types of data there are. REST assured however that at least a few of the next posts will be about yesterday’s topic, as it has led to fierce debates here and there over the […]
Simple Service Enterprise – part 3
My previous post showed the fundamentals of information interchange: exposing business functionality, currently encapsulated in the back-end, to the outside world via services. These services are a one-to-one translation to back-end functions, which are one-to-one translations to business process steps themselves: the smallest level of business transaction. I also showed that the How of exposing […]
Simple Service Enterprise – part 2
Yesterday’s post was about Simple Service Enterprise, and showed the basics: to keep up with the growing diversity inside and outside your enterprise for getting the same functionality on different devices and platforms, you need an Integration layer (the red in the middle). Can’t argue with that, point-to-point integration is a neat quick and dirty […]
Simple Service Enterprise – part 1
I plead for a Simple Service Enterprise. One that is ruled by Business, not IT. One that is interoperable with any other business, customer or consumer, regardless of the platforms they operate on. Regardless of the vendors that dominate those platforms. Regardless of the programming languages used on those platforms. Regardless of the devices used. […]
SAP gets the Future of Integration
OK, I’ll admit it: this title is heavily (heavenly?) influenced by the previous Easter weekend – yet has no relation to it whatsoever. Or has it? Let’s skip the usual introduction, here is the message from Vishal Sikka that absolutely thrilled me @MartijnLinssen @steinermatt we do.The Gateway. It will simply be services in HANA.Also PI, […]
SAP, Integration and Star Trek: the future is now
I commented ranted on an SDN post yesterday. Submitting it failed, and I lost the +/- 500 words. A bit more miffed after that, I wrote the comment anew in Notepad, and copy/pasted that – it worked. I got a few reactions, some of which inviting me to post on the topic on SDN via […]
Pervasive’s Integration World Europe 2012
I was at Integration World Europe 2012 today, organised by Pervasive at the Cumberland hotel in London. A nice environment and a party of a hundred plus, today’s topics were Big Data, Data Integration, Cloud and Strategic Business Solutions. Clear divisions were made on Cloud: IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, and public, private, community and hybrid […]
