
NextAxiom Looks to Solve Application Integration
NextAxiom, a company founded over a decade ago, is pushing hard to create what it calls a silo-free enterprise. It’s take on this hallowed territory is that by enabling intelligent information flow between discrete information silos, organizations will be able to integrate existing applications and develop new ones that leverage the “building blocks” of core […]

Asphalt that controls traffic type and flow?
This weekend I attended the SAP Inside track NL event, held at Ciber HQ in Eindhoven. The event was great, and I really enjoyed it but would have loved to stay longer and gotten more involved. What has followed are great conversations and discussions, new people to follow on Twitter and elsewhere, and lots of […]

Why a Business Process Modeling (BPM) Approach to SOA Usually Fails
I was having a Twitter conversation with Brenda Michelson (@bmichelson) and Todd Biske (@toddbiske) about the tight coupling in peoples minds between BPM and SOA, and why I find that when people take a BPM centric approach to SOA, it usually ends up not delivering the goods. So today’s post is about how to properly […]

How To Build an SOA Based, High Performance, Scalable and Reliable Twitter on Steroids
Over the past few days I have been having some issues with my Twitter account. Beyond the well known pauses in the service, outages, etc there are some less known but more annoying problems with twitter search. It turns out that many accounts don’t show up in search at all. Therefore, if you are one […]
High Availability Series: Series Outline
With all of the talk about reliability, or lack thereof, of SaaS and Cloud based applications, I thought I would write a series on designing applications to be Resilient and Highly Available. The series sort of started with this post “It’s Inadequate Design That Lets Systems Fail, Not Whether They Are SaaS or Deployed in […]