Andrew White

Gartner’s SOA & Application Development and Integration Summit, London, UK 
Well what a day!  The week ended on a high for me, and by the looks of it, for the attendees of the conference.  Despite the lovely London sunshine a good number of folks remained in the hotel to chat about SOA and application development.
I had [...]

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Gartner’s SOA & Application Development and Integration Summit, London, UK
I sat in a vendor presentation today on SOA.  Specifically the presentation was focused on SAP and how SOA oriented was its technology stack.  I asked a question of the speaker that was not pointed to SAP, but to SOA in general, and the role of [...]

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It is not in my nature to use blogs to argue of topics that require detailed exchange of information and analysis…but the following article was brought to my attention and I thought it a potentially good example of “vendor hype” even it was not directly provided by the vendor.  
Andy Hayler, CEO, The Information Difference, wrote [...]

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Just spotted an interesting article: “MDM: Don’t Give Up“.  In the checklist for MDM that is posted, item 1 happens to reinforce one of the two key points I concluded at the end my blog, (A Tale of Two MDM Initiatives): “Do you have [before you go to far with MDM] an information management strategy?” 
Interesting also- [...]

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You go on the road and while you are away, great notes get published!  John Radcliffe, my primary MDM partner, just published his annual update to the Gartner Magic Quadrant for MDM of Customer Data.  As you may know, Magic Quadrants highlight the main vendors in a market and rate then against a number of [...]

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This week I had the pleasure of spending time with two end user organizations that helped me draw out some important considerations.  Company A was very much a large, global concern who’s product is very much information rich, selling to consumer (B2C) and commercial organizations (B2B).  Company B was another large, global concern, who’s product [...]

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