Anthony Bradley

Malcolm Gladwell is one of my favorite business book authors. He has a fantastic way of making me look at things differently or gain deeper insight into what I naturally took for granted. The beauty in the latter is that I often learn things that I can apply in many situations. In some instances when [...]

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A client just asked about the utility of the “A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution” multi-author project. Although I have not read the recent book, I have gone through the Web site.
I would say that the movement has yet to hit many organizations since this is the first client interest I’ve seen. The cause is [...]

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I watched CNN’s Planet in Peril show yesterday and it left me in a state of depressed anger at how people (and companies) are destroying parts of the earth and some of its most magnificent inhabitants (sharks, gorillas, and elephants). Here is where the potential power of social software solutions becomes apparent. I know I’ve [...]

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JackBe, a leading boutique vendor of enterprise mashup technologies recently announced a new $5 million round of funding.
Mashable.com had a good article titled “RockYou Spits in Recession’s Face, Secures $17 Million in Funding” that covers some 2008 investment in public Web based mashup companies.
I expected 2008 to be the year of the enterprise mashup. Early [...]

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Alright, I am in the midst of working on 2009 research agenda planning for myself and rest of my team. I cover social application architecture and best practices as well as enterprise mashup composite applications (as a subset of Web 2.0 for the enterprise). My team also covers SOA, WOA, EDA, app infrastructure, and information architecture.
Here [...]

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Last week we wrapped up the Gartner Application Architecture, Development and Integration (ADI) Summit in Las Vegas. This is our SOA flagship event. By many attendee accounts the summit was a great success. I’d like to wrap up the fall conference with a few bottom lines (this may look familiar to those who saw my [...]

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I just wanted to point my readers to a recent post by Luis Derechin CEO of enterprise mashup vendor JackBe. Luis does a nice job of pulling together some of the movers and shakers in the enterprise mashup space. I think this is a valuable list for those who wish to track the evolution of [...]

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Kapow hooked me into lunch today at the AADI conference (where I am presenting for the majority of the week). They hooked me by showing me a mashup for the iPhone they had built (using their technology) that scrapes the Gartner AADI conference site to deliver a handheld based Gartner agenda management application. I’ve got [...]

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After over a year in the making, Gartner’s SOA Business Case Framework is now available (to clients or for a fee). I’ve been presenting the framework for over six months now at Gartner events and will again at the AADI event next week but now it is available in writing. As you will see, if [...]

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My prayers to those who suffered in the Mumbai attack. Social technologies were used by some present to give a minute by minute account of what was happening. Yesterday the blogosphere and media outlets were full of accounts on how Twitter, Blogs, Wkipedia, etc. were employed to drive awareness of the tragedy. This highlights the [...]

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