Miko Matsumura Enterprise Software Executive Technologist

There is no “I” in IT: Oh wait yes there is.

The Dynamic Enterprise I’m in the airport in Victoria on my way back from giving a talk sponsored by the Office of the CIO in the Government of British Columbia entitled “Enterprise-Scale Business Transformation with SOA and BPM”. Increasingly, I’m seeing efforts around large-scale Business Transformation involving the dynamic system of Business and IT. In my talk, I asked the following question: How do you achieve “Business Transformation” in a system...

Software AG signs intent agreement to acquire IDS Scheer

Creating a new one billion Euro superpower, Software AG agrees to acquire IDS Scheer, makers of the popular ARIS suite of Business Process and Business Analysis tools. IDS Scheer represents 390M Euro of annual revenue. Combined this will result in about 1.1B Euro After the acquisition of webMethods for $546M in April of 2007, many have speculated on the next steps in the growth aspirations of Software AG CEO Karl-Heinz Streibich–who is currently executing his aggressive 10 year plan...

ESB Hate Storm

Lots of hate for the ESB lately. Everything from Joe McKendrick’s E-s-Busted to Dave Linthicum’s ESB Hurting SOA, we are in the midst of a full-fledged backlash. I’m certainly sympathetic to these views. The SOA “patient” is already pretty sick. Years of Tribal IT battles, “quick fix” technology solutions that dont interoperate and create more hassles than they fix, project funded IT driven by inconsistent objectives and just plain years of abuse....