Andrew White

Sometimes even I am flabbergasted at the rate at which research get’s published Gartner.  It can be a veritable fire-hose of stuff – I am sure hard for some users to keep up with.  A few notes snuck out in the last couple days.  Here are three of my favorite notes (and they are not [...]

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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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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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My colleague, Dan Sholler, just published a really nice note on How to Establish the Foundation of a Successful Service-Oriented Architecture Initiative.  The connection between SOA and MDM has not been all that clear; SOA as a topic of interest (and design strategy) is quite old, and has roots that go farther back toward model [...]

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My colleague, Mim Burt, just published an interesting note reporting an analysis of a recent survey of retailers and their use of SOA (See Survey of Retailers’ Use of SOA: An Approach to Application Architecture, Not the Solution Itself).   The survey was conducted in Q42008 and included retailers from numerous retail segments, regionally from the [...]

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Some of my colleagues just published a note updating users on Infor’s recent user group (see Inforum 2008: The Infor Brand Emerges?) .  Did you say, “who’s Infor?”  Despite its age, Infor is a $2bn+ business applications vendor that has, over several years, acquired multiple ERP, CRM, SCM and PLM offerings.  See archived research Infor [...]

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After my blog on When is SOA, DOA? When it’s without MDM!, a vendor kindly sent me an email that explained how they too had similar ideas regarding the important link between MDM and SOA.  Oracle wrote a white paper entitled, MDM as a Foundation for SOA, in November 2007.  The SOA Magazine published in [...]

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We all know that SOA is a design style – a way of developing applications and integration.  Adopting SOA leads to a change in the way ‘stuff’ happens.  Gartner, and others, have published widely on the different uses of SOA, and I myself wrote a note some time ago on where SOA adds most value [...]

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