I was recently asked for some examples of events I have spoken at, so for the record this is what I’ve participated in so for this year:
Taking back control of IT, Webinar, 28 February 2008 (video stream - registration required)
Improving business productivity through effective content management, Webinar, 4 March 2008 (video stream - registration required)
Governance [...] ...
It’s been a couple of months since I jumped on a plane back from IBM’s SOA Impact conference in Las Vegas. For those in the know, this conference is a re-named evolution of the IBM’s WebSphere conference series, and for those less so, WebSphere is IBM’s brand associated with its enterprise scale application server software [...] ...
One of the most fun debates I have had in recent times was with a couple of execs from IBM and Cognos, and with a senior analyst from IDC, at last week’s Information On Demand event in The Hague. The question was innocuous enough - “what do you think is the addressable market for Business [...] ...
I can’t remember who said that to me a couple of weeks ago, but its one of my favourite phrases at the moment - it applies so well to so many things we’re dealing with right now: SOA, Identity Management, Information Management, BPM. Give it a go, and se where it sticks.
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It always seems quite ironic to me when I read how industry analysts are accused of ‘bigging up’ vendor offerings, when I and my peers seem to spend so much of our time resetting the expectations of over-optimistic marketeers. Indeed, without such a position, we would offer a far less useful service - on occasion [...] ...