by Benoit Lheureux | December 13, 2011 | 1 Comment
Every company that consumes Cloud services from multiple providers must address a simple multi-sourcing decision: “Who’s throat are you going to choke”? CSB is not always the answer since many companies can and will consume cloud directly. No problem. But for companies that lack — or don’t want to be responsible for — Cloud-native technology, skills, [...]
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by Benoit Lheureux | March 25, 2011 | 8 Comments
File this under “random datapoints on B2B”, or “things that make you go, ‘hmmmmm’…” In the last few days I’ve had 3 research inquiries with Gartner clients on the IT topic: EDI. And I mean, very specifically, “EDI”. Here’s the actual “Subject” submitted by clients captured from of our internal Gartner research inquiry tracking tool … [...]
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by Benoit Lheureux | January 10, 2011 | 4 Comments
In the run-up to Year-End 2010 my colleagues and I published our annual 2011 Predicts reports, featuring a wide range of predictions related to integration, B2B and cloud computing. These Predicts 2011 Reports include (subscription required): Predicts 2011: Cloud Computing Is Still at the Peak of Inflated Expectations Predicts 2011: Application Integration: A Nimble Veteran [...]
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by Benoit Lheureux | November 8, 2010 | 1 Comment
What do you believe? Will every company on earth *always* consume Cloud services directly? Governance. Integration. Security. Just a few of the issues companies must address when consuming Cloud services (not the easier browser-based services, the more sophisticated API-based Cloud services — for an example checkout http://developer.force.com/). Before you object, … YES … I get [...]
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by Benoit Lheureux | October 11, 2010 | 5 Comments
A few months back in my post Cloud Services Brokerage: Its Time to Move Beyond Integration as a Service I introduced the notion that Integration as a Service — despite its broad adoption and enduring usefulness — was simply not, by itself, a sufficient metaphor to describe what is really needed to facilitate the consumption of [...]
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by Benoit Lheureux | August 19, 2010 | 1 Comment
So yesterday on the same day that my Ariba / Hubspan partnership analysis was published – see Ariba and Hubspan Partner to Scale Up Integration in the Cloud (subscription required) — Liaison announced its acquisition of Softshare. As I’ve said several times this year I can’t publish fast enough to keep up all the B2B vendor activity. Liaison is [...]
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by Benoit Lheureux | July 20, 2010 | 3 Comments
Ok, its not really *that* bad but for dramatic effect I could make a case that alliances and M&A activity involving IT providers in the B2B market segment are occurring faster than we can respond to them in our published research. Its been a busy year! Recent events include: Ariba partners with Hubspan — Debbie [...]
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by Benoit Lheureux | June 3, 2010 | 1 Comment
Today the GXS / Inovis merger closed (although not fully world-wide, as UK equivalent of our US DoJ continues its deliberations). Nevertheless barring any unexpected surprises there the combined company can now get on with planning the combined product and service roadmap. We’ve already published our position on how that will play, available here (subscription [...]
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by Benoit Lheureux | May 25, 2010 | 2 Comments
My colleagues and I just published our formal, consolidated Gartner response to the IBM acquisition of Cast Iron here (subscription required). Relative to my original blog post on the Cast Iron acquisition its worth noting as we elaborate in the published research that I was mostly right — the most important aspect of this acquisition [...]
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by Benoit Lheureux | May 24, 2010 | 7 Comments
Just on the heals of IBM acquiring Cast Iron Systems a few weeks ago, today IBM announced that it is acquiring Sterling Commerce for $1.4b in cash. Adding to other recent events such as GXS acquiring Inovis this once again ups the ante on B2B. Gartner’s formal consolidated response to the Cast Iron acquisition will [...]
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