Frank Kenney

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Holding On for Dear Life In The Enterprise World of Technology

May 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments

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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Tags: SOA Governance · Uncategorized

How Governance, BPM and CEP Almost* Killed My Christmas (Or How I Am A Victim of My Own Success)

December 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: Music · SOA Governance

Ahh Shucks, SOA Is A Failure

November 12th, 2008 · 21 Comments

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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Tags: SOA Governance

1st Update From Software AG’s Innovation World

November 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: SOA Governance