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Resource identification is not a REST invention

Resource identification is not a REST invention

By Martijn Linssen on August 3, 2012

An article on programmable web – pointed out to me by Fred Verheul (thanks Fred!) – gave me an adrenaline rush. It was so full of bollox that I almost started to hyperventilate – which is a pun on the abundant use of the word hypermedia in that same post Let me just quote one […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged 1.0, application development, architecture, business exceptions, business rules, Globalisation, integration, Supply Chain, transactions

TIBCO Transform - it says it all

TIBCO Transform – it says it all

By Martijn Linssen on June 28, 2012

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 […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged 3.0, application development, business exceptions, CEP, Data quality, edi, growth, integration, Supply Chain, transactions

Avoid dashes and fancy quotes in blog titles

Avoid dashes and fancy quotes in blog titles

By Martijn Linssen on April 1, 2012

John Reed pointed me to a post by Jeremiah Owyang, which I failed to retrieve on my phone: Coping With Twitter’s Unfollow Bug bit.ly/H6rUUz – by @jowyang (via @jonerp) #ensw — Jon Reed (@jonerpnewsfeed) maart 31, 2012   Ironic as it may seem, this is due to another bug which doesn’t have clear ownership: let’s […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged enveloping, Globalisation, messaging, Supply Chain, twitter

80-20: the deadly cause of IT project failure

80-20: the deadly cause of IT project failure

By Martijn Linssen on March 26, 2012

There seems to be a rush of IT failure topics these days, all trying to find the Holy Grail of project failure. While I hold that this is a world of AND and AND, not OR and OR, I do see a major cause for project failure for the last decade: shifting from serial processing […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Technology | Tagged 1.0, agile, application development, architecture, business exceptions, business rules, management, pareto, Pareto principle, project management, Scrum, Supply Chain | 1 Response

Apple margin per device - expressed in Chinese

Apple margin per device – expressed in Chinese

By Martijn Linssen on January 24, 2012

[Image by Sven Teschke] An article in the New York Times published 2 days ago suddenly gained a lot of traction and got discussed, reposted and reblogged today: Apple making money off of the United States, while directly employing “only” twice as many employees in the US than overseas – but indirectly more than ten […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged 1.0, 3.0, Apple, change, china, financials, Foxconn, Globalisation, ipad, iphone, iPod, stats, Supply Chain | 1 Response

Photo by John Kerstholt

SAP meets Cloud: something needs to vaporise first

By Martijn Linssen on December 15, 2011

I have been comfortably following SAP Influencer Summit 2011 from my chair, and reading up on the various posts and vids released throughout the process. It won’t surprise anyone that yesterday’s keywords were cloud, ByD, business, SAPonDemand and sales – thank you, you 350 participants who produced 1,500 tweets during the last day Many people […]

Posted in Application Software, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged application development, architecture, change, cloud computing, growth, integration, sap, successfactors, Supply Chain, tibco

Image by John M. Kennedy T

Big Data needs Big Collection and Big Execution

By Martijn Linssen on December 4, 2011

Big Data is the new buzz it seems, and I must say I have been sceptic of it since I first saw the very word – or phrase, what is it? As an IT architect, I’ve always equaled data to databases, and information to applications – and knowledge to the people on top of these […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged 1.0, bigdata, Business Intelligence, cloud computing, Data quality, Data Warehousing, database, Don Quixote, edi, hadoop, knowledge, messaging, standardisation, Supply Chain, wikipedia | 1 Response

Integration is the new Operation - this decade and next

Integration is the new Operation – this decade and next

By Martijn Linssen on December 1, 2011

I gave a presentation the other day that is a very short version of my Integration book. As usual, that forced me to compact thoughts and ideas, and craft a new visual – see above. I’ve used that already in a post the other day, but that didn’t pay proper attention to it I’m a […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 3.0, A2A, adapt, adopt, b2b, B2C, EAI, edi, ESB, integration, Supply Chain | 1 Response

Image via Dave Spicer

The project versus product dilemma in Enterprise IT

By Martijn Linssen on October 9, 2011

I’ve often run into the project-product dilemma over the last decades: a company does business by supplying products and services, which -after it’s reached a certain size- can only be implemented with the help of IT. Over time, that “help” turns into “sole reliance on” Strangely enough, these IT-implementations are project-driven, and have increasingly become […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged application development, architecture, change, maturity, Supply Chain

How to queue - that is the question

How to queue – that is the question

By Martijn Linssen on September 8, 2011

The other day my attention got drawn by a very large national company that claimed to have a performance problem: sometimes it would take ages for messages to reach their destination, and entire applications would come to a screeching halt. After a few questions and answers, it was clear that they didn’t have a performance […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged 1.0, 2.0, 24/7/365, application development, architecture, b2b, EAI, edi, ESB, guaranteed delivery, integration, Supply Chain, transactions

Selling licenses to bureaucracies is embarrasingly easy

Selling licenses to bureaucracies is embarrasingly easy

By Martijn Linssen on September 8, 2011

This is a fictitious post. It’s all based on nothing, if any, maybe my dreams or nightmares or who knows what. This isn’t real – it’s just a dream. Somehow my memory got enriched with this information, and whether it actually did or did not happen, I really can’t tell. Anyway, it’s such a bizarre […]

Posted in Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged 1.0, application development, b2b, B2C, change, EAI, integration, Supply Chain | 1 Response

Social CRM. Good riddance. Next: Social ERP?

Social CRM. Good riddance. Next: Social ERP?

By Martijn Linssen on August 11, 2011

Paul Greenberg, dubbed by some “the godfather of SCRM” wrote a post on ZDNET about Gartner’s 2011 SCRM Magic Quadrant. Paul is not pleased with the 2011 SCRM MQ, and he wasn’t with the 2010 either. I’m with Paul on all his points against Gartner’s selection and evaluation process, yet against him on berating Gartner. […]

Posted in Application Software, Enterprise | Tagged 1.0, change, enterprise 2.0, gartner, integration, paul greenberg, scrm, Social CRM, Supply Chain | 2 Responses

Enterprise Architecture: it's like measuring the coastline

Enterprise Architecture: it’s like measuring the coastline

By Martijn Linssen on August 1, 2011

I’ve made the mistake once again: underestimating an enterprise’s business and process flow while looking at it from a conceptual or logical point of view, before hitting what we call the physical layer. Call me an idiot please, yes you can.
Let me use a few metaphors and make this an easy one to understand. I’ll follow the model above.
My client sells candy. Red, green and blue.

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged application development, architecture, Candy, Capgemini, Data quality, Enterprise architect, Enterprise architecture, knowledge, maturity, Supply Chain | 2 Responses

Tibbr, the new OS. Integrating is the new Operating.

Tibbr, the new OS. Integrating is the new Operating.

By Martijn Linssen on June 28, 2011

I just watched the live feed of Tibbr’s 3.0 launch. It was impressive and even more so than the 1.0 launch I attended live in February – although that was a revelation, and revolution too Back a dozen years or so, Larry Ellison dreamed about the network PC as replacing Microsoft’s Operating System (OS) – […]

Posted in Application Software, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged adapt, always on, application development, b2b, B2C, change, EAI, edi, ESB, integration, messaging, social media, Supply Chain, transactions | 3 Responses

From product to service: stealing first base?

From product to service: stealing first base?

By Martijn Linssen on March 29, 2011

The other day I read a post about how someone in a poor country is making a living by taking his washing machine across town (rather: slum) and selling it “by the wash”, thus turning a product into a service. The rationale in this specific case is cheap washing machines from abroad pushing existing ones […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 1.0, adopt, change, Entrepreneur, Globalisation, professional services, proserv, Supply Chain, trust | 2 Responses

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