5 reasons to be optimistic about technology innovation in the year ahead
Underneath the gloom, technology is paving the way for a highly dynamic and more open economy.
Underneath the gloom, technology is paving the way for a highly dynamic and more open economy.
The challenge: establishing baselines to measure unified communication gains
We allude now and then in this blog to "elevator speeches" about SOA and enterprise architecture. This is often intended as a method to boil down the essentials to make them easily digestible by business decision makers with limited time and attention spans.
We all know what happened with Excel, the most popular user-generated application on the planet. Every organization has hundreds, or even thousands of copies floating around, with no control or coordination.
IBM announced an exhaustive list of initiatives around SOA, including new software and service initiatives. Perhaps what raised the most eyebrows at the product launch briefing was the introduction of two enterprise service buses (ESBs) -- one for simpler installations, and another for environments requiring a more sophisticated message broker.
One of the major issues we've been exploring since the inception of this blog has been the growing threat to system performance resulting from the processing of bloated XML files. The bottlenecks occur occurs when a user or application is handling large binary files.