by Andrew White | May 26, 2010 | 1 Comment
This bombshell fell this week. Several of my colleagues have blogged on this already, namely Gene Alvarez (representing e-Commerce) and Benoit Lheureux (representing B2B integration). Both provide some interesting insight as to what the impact will be on these parts of the market. I have followed B2B and Sterling Commerce, and some of its parts, [...]
Category: IBM Multienterprise Tags: B2B, BPP, IBM, ME-BPP, Multienterprise, Sterling Commerce
by Andrew White | May 13, 2010 | Comments Off
I was at TIBCO’s 2010 user conference this week and I in my daily reports I forgot to mention one other thought that came to me. On Tuesday I was sitting in the audience listening to an external keynote. Let’s just say it was a systems integrator. The speaker had a reasonable presentation though, being [...]
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Category: Innovation Multienterprise Tags: Facebook, Innovation, Multienterprise
by Andrew White | September 4, 2009 | Comments Off
Well that was a fun week. I just had a week without travel (always a pleasure) where I spend most of the time on the telephone with users, or doing research. And this week was important because we are wrapping up our preparations for our up coming Gartner MDM Summit, 2009, in Los Angeles, October [...]
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Category: Business to Business (B2B) Cloud MDM MDM Summit MDM of Product Data Multidomain MDM Multienterprise Operational MDM Procurement MDM Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Regulation/Compliance SCM SaaS Tags: B2B, Cloud, MDM, MDM of Product Data, PLM, SaaS
by Andrew White | August 19, 2009 | 2 Comments
I was on a call with a vendor today who was explaining to me their heritage as it pertains to hosted supply chain management solutions. They had a long list of “milestones” that included the “first” this and that, and among the list, where “multi-party”, “multi-process”, and “multi-tenancy”. I felt as if the vendor was [...]
Category: Multienterprise Tags: Multienterprise
by Andrew White | June 24, 2009 | Comments Off
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 [...]
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Category: MDM Multienterprise SOA Semantics Tags: MDM, Multienterprise, Multienterprise BPP, SOA
by Andrew White | January 27, 2009 | Comments Off
Yesterday I had the good fortune of attending the sales kick-off meeting for Inovis, a B2B vendor. I was invited in order to get an update on the vendor and to hear the vision for 2009 from the management team. MDM was very prominent in the vision. In fact, several of my favorite topics [...]
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Category: Business to Business (B2B) Multienterprise Product Information Management (PIM) Tags: B2B, Data Synchronization, Inovis, Multienterprise
