Frank Kenney

Regardless of your beliefs about the origin of man and the evolutionary theories that accompany it such as the evolution of amoeba to chimp to man, you must agree that at some point there was a global phenomenon that caused us to stand upright and pull our iPhones on the jet way of a Delta [...]

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I like many other analysts love talking in multi-letter acronyms (MLA) and do so when there is:

An IT guy in the room
When I’m getting a new cell phone (to prove I’m smarter than the sales guy)
At the hotel bar (preferably [...]

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Twas about nine days before Xmas
And in my Google browser
I was ordering from eBay
Because I am to busy to go to a real mall (Hey I never said this would rhyme!)
After using PayPal to send money to 5 different sellers in a 24hr chain, the governance mechanisms of PayPal kicked off processes that sent emails [...]

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Yea, I feel your pain. So much time effort and money put into SOA and it is a complete a dismal failure. Sorry to have misled you. Daryl Plummer and I are deep in depression. Sucks to be us. Oh well here’s some free advice to help you get by. In fact I will make [...]

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And no I don’t mean the US Armed forces mandate on homosexuality, I mean something more related to IT and specificially how many CIO’s and IT governance policies are enacted and enforced. 
 
I just attended a compelling presentation delivered by Tom “Obi Wan” Austin, entitled, “Exploiting Consumerisation, Technology Democratization and User Responsibility”. Oh snap. In 45 [...]

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From beautiful Miami, where it took me a whole 39 minutes to fly down, but the plane was delayed 4 hours, Software AG’s annual innovation world kicked off with its CIO Summit. I was asked to moderate a panel of CIOs and it was a great discussion. Here are some interesting tidbits from the morning [...]

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As a Gartner analyst, I get to answer a wide variety of questions about a number of topics. Unfortunately SOA isn’t one of them.. By far companies ask me how to go about implementing an SOA. And after a warning of how there should be some kind of business need to relate the SOA initiative [...]

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Ahhh Orlando Symposium is finally over. It was a successful event and I think that I talked with more users than ever. A few notes on my discussions:
1) It’s great to hear less of the where do I start in SOA discussions. (if you are still asking, Jeff Schulman has an excellent presentation on where [...]

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Or Why Governance = Oversight = Compliance = Regulations or whatever you want to call it.
Read this:

Unregulated swaps hastened Wall Street collapse
By JOHN DUNBAR – 
WASHINGTON (AP) — It can be a fine line between investing and gambling. But in Las Vegas, you know the odds. On Wall Street, that’s not always the case.
Especially when it [...]

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It makes sense don’t it. If I can’t send via corporate email because of constraints then I should just use some free options. Simple. But not so simple. If you are a security professional, legal counsel, founder or just the Board of Directors, you need to be concerned that there could be and likely is [...]

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