by Eric Knipp | March 20, 2013 | 2 Comments
While attending the Gartner BI Summit in Grapevine, TX yesterday I had a meeting with a client that made me facepalm a little. The client in question was telling me about his need to educate his development staff in a number of critical areas, ranging from application lifecycle management, to data access patterns, to SOA [...]
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by Eric Knipp | March 11, 2012 | 3 Comments
Sitting on a flight from Dallas/Fort-Worth to Orlando for Gartner’s Orlando Portals, Content, and Collaboration Summit, I just observed an event that reminded me of why I believe so strongly that architects ought to cut code themselves. We’re being redirected around the leading edges of a storm line stretching from southwestern Arkansas all the way [...]
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by Eric Knipp | February 15, 2012 | Comments Off
Cloud computing has become an important element of every enterprise IT provider’s business strategy and it is long past time to treat “a cloud [as] water vapor,” as Oracle CEO Larry Ellison famously said in 2009. Even Oracle is now well-entrenched in the cloud war through both acquisition and internal initiatives. Microsoft, IBM, SAP, and [...]
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