For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

European Airline Aims To Delight Passengers Through RFID Bag Tracking

Event-Driven Solution Lowers Costs While Promoting Happy Travelers

by Mike Gilpin, July 15, 2009

Processing lost bags costs airlines a lot of money: more than $1,200 per thousand passengers, not to mention the inconvenience to passengers. Thus, airlines are highly motivated to apply new technology to solving this problem. Through an innovative combination . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Building Interoperability And Federation Into Your SOA Platform Strategy  (2.6 MB PPT)

by Mike Gilpin, December 16, 2008

If your SOA platform must span multiple diverse domains, then it should become a federation of interoperable SOA infrastructure elements that work together to ease and control service usage across the enterprise.

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Lean Software Is Agile, Fit-To-Purpose, And Efficient

by John R. Rymer, Dave West, Mike Gilpin, December 12, 2008

Bloat kills. Whether it's excessive complexity in the application, its underlying platform or architecture, or the process used to deliver it, overloaded platform software and heavy processes impede delivery of the solutions the business demands. Yet . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Application Development Pros: Must-Read Research In Any Economic Downturn

by Mike Gilpin, October 28, 2008

Whether the economy slips into recession or not, many firms are starting to tighten their budgets. Although this means even more limited resources than usual, the business will continue to expect application development teams to deliver high-quality, . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

An Interoperable And Federated SOA Platform Strategy Matters To App Dev Pros, Too

by Mike Gilpin, October 10, 2008

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) silos are a thorn in the side of application development professionals, but new SOA strategies can alleviate some of that pain. Through federated SOA, a solution is around the corner, but it will require app dev pros . . .

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Building Interoperability And Federation Into Your SOA Platform Strategy

by Mike Gilpin, October 9, 2008

As large and heterogeneous enterprises reach greater service-oriented architecture (SOA) maturity, enterprise architects often find that different business areas or domains need different things from an enterprise-level SOA platform. Accommodating these . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Making Use Of A Simple Model For Project Prioritization

by Mike Gilpin, September 3, 2008

Application development organizations rarely have enough bandwidth to tackle every project that the business would like to see developed. But when trying to determine which project should come first, the rationale is often muddled, or worse, faulty. By . . .

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Preparing For The Business Technology Analyst

by Mike Gilpin, August 20, 2008

As traditional notions of the business analyst evolve, application development and program management professionals must prepare for a new, emerging type of business analyst: the business technology analyst. Because these new business technology analysts . . .

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Topic Overview: Service-Oriented Architecture For Apps Dev And Program Management Pros

by Randy Heffner, Mike Gilpin, August 18, 2008

For a single, isolated solution delivery project, it's OK to think of service-oriented architecture (SOA) as just Web services (WS) standards for better application integration: Your application needs something from another one, and WS technology bridges . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Progress Software Snags IONA And Mindreef For SOA

How This New Combination Will Affect Application Development Professionals

by Mike Gilpin, Larry Fulton, August 1, 2008

Within one week, Progress Software announced its intention to acquire enterprise service bus (ESB) rival IONA Technologies and completed the acquisition of service-oriented architecture (SOA) testing startup Mindreef. The addition of Mindreef continues . . .

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Oracle Absorbs BEA's Middleware: The Impact On Application Development Managers

You Won't Be Forced To Migrate Or Upgrade, But Many Shops Will Want To

by John R. Rymer, Mike Gilpin, July 30, 2008

The best news in Oracle's plan to absorb BEA Systems' middleware products: No forced upgrades and/or migrations for nine years. At the same time, Oracle disclosed plans for a rationalization of Oracle and BEA middleware to create new platforms by combining . . .

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ALM 2.0: Getting Closer, But Not There Yet

by Carey Schwaber, Mike Gilpin, June 19, 2008

The term ALM 2.0, which Forrester coined in 2006, refers to the next generation of tool support for application life-cycle management (ALM). In the past two years, vendors have made progress in moving from ALM 1.0 to ALM 2.0, but no vendor has yet developed . . .

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Best Practices: A Pragmatic Approach To Software Reuse

Achieving Optimal Reuse Of A Broader Range Of Assets

by Mike Gualtieri, Mike Gilpin, June 18, 2008

Development leaders have looked for ways to increase reuse since the early days of software development in an effort to increase developer productivity. This drive for reuse has brought changes in languages, structure, programming models, processes, and . . .

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Case Study: Financial Services Firm Designs For Reuse

by Mike Gualtieri, Mike Gilpin, June 18, 2008

Moving from legacy architecture to a second-generation architecture based on Java gave this large financial services firm the opportunity to design for reuse from the ground up. Standardization and automation were essential to embedding reusability into . . .

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Information-As-A-Service: Delivering Real-Time Information Drives Market Toward The Mainstream

by Noel Yuhanna, Mike Gilpin, May 2, 2008

Increasing business demand for near-real-time delivery of high-quality information in context is driving enterprise architects and application developers toward new service-oriented ways of accessing and integrating enterprise information. Earlier-era . . .

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Air France Flies High With Model-Driven Development

by Diego Lo Giudice, Mike Gilpin, March 27, 2008

The experience of Air France shows that with a pragmatic approach, a company can introduce model-driven development (MDD) and achieve more rapid, predictable, and repeatable applications. The secret to success? Air France created a simplified version . . .

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The Forrester Wave™: Information-As-A-Service, Q1 2008

BEA Systems Leads, With IBM, Oracle, And Red Hat Following Closely

by Noel Yuhanna, Mike Gilpin, January 23, 2008

Forrester evaluated leading enterprise information-as-a-service (IaaS) vendors across 94 criteria and found that BEA Systems, IBM, Oracle, and Red Hat have established leadership positions, thanks to their IaaS capabilities, breadth of focus, and strong . . .

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Canonical Information Modeling Is Key To Many Information-As-A-Service And SOA Strategies

by Mike Gilpin, November 15, 2007

Forrester recently surveyed 1,017 decision-makers at North American and European enterprises on the adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and related technologies including information-as-a-service (IaaS). Compared to other SOA technologies . . .

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An Oracle-BEA Combo: How It Will Affect You

by John R. Rymer, Mike Gilpin, October 16, 2007

By acquiring BEA Software's wealth of large corporate customers and well-respected middleware products, Oracle would be second only to IBM in that key market. Oracle's Larry Ellison has long threatened to acquire BEA Systems, finally making an offer on . . .

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Long-Running Transaction Support Is Important To Your BPM And SOA Success

by Henry Peyret, Mike Gilpin, September 28, 2007

The growing enterprise adoption of business process management (BPM) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) is driving increased demand to support the long-running transactions (LRTs) common to the loosely coupled systems that BPM and SOA enable. Doing . . .

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Learn How To Embrace Lightweight ESBs

Lightweight ESBs Should Be An Option Within Your SOA Strategy

by Mike Gilpin, Larry Fulton, September 12, 2007

Enterprise service buses (ESBs) come in a wide range of shapes and sizes, and some are so loaded with capabilities that they can take months to fully implement. Such complexity is one reason why developers often seek the simple solution: a lightweight . . .

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ESB Lessons Learned

Incremental Adoption And A Clear, Business-Focused Vision Are Key

by Larry Fulton, Mike Gilpin, August 21, 2007

Organizations adopting enterprise service bus (ESB) technology often encounter challenges with legacy technology, the need for new skills, organizational acceptance, and new service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance processes. Enterprise architects . . .

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Shaping Your Middleware Strategy To Benefit From ESBs

by Larry Fulton, Mike Gilpin, May 21, 2007

Many enterprise message-oriented middleware (MOM) infrastructures have evolved into complex assemblies of multiple proprietary products. Despite innovations like enterprise application integration (EAI) and Java Message Service (JMS), business software . . .

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Information Fabric 2.0: Enterprise Information Virtualization Gets Real

by Noel Yuhanna, Mike Gilpin, April 9, 2007

Forrester's information fabric vision of enterprise information virtualization has evolved as enterprises have implemented more parts of the vision and as vendors have extended information-as-a service (IaaS) products to deliver broader capabilities. . . .

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Information-As-A-Service: What's Behind This Hot New Trend?

by Mike Gilpin, Noel Yuhanna, March 22, 2007

Information-as-a-service has exploded on the scene over the past two years, moving from an obscure topic to one of the top usage scenarios in service-oriented architecture (SOA). Forrester expects that in 2007, a majority of large enterprises will add . . .