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Dovetail Software Blogs: Business Intelligence in the MS Office Suite
“When software, users, and companies all evolve along similar lines running in the same direction, that direction is worth noting. Think user collaboration, user mashup, user-generated content: user, user, user. We all know about the user part of this – what are the software developers such as Dovetail and Microsoft doing to enable all this change?”
The Microsoft Lending Message Bus
“The lending message bus (LMB) provides messaging services for the lending processes. This made sense to since there are many touch points in the process. Both internally and externally there are points that need management and consolidation. The LMB follows Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) practices it can also integrate well with in the enterprise ecosystem. Either augmenting or apart of the centralized ESB.”
In Silicon Valley, tech economy strengthens despite strains elsewhere
“Across the United States, the economic mood is trending from glum to glummer because of strains in the housing market, spiking energy costs and volatile stocks. Yet Silicon Valley consumers seem to be cheering up. While many valley residents struggle with the cost of living, many also are enjoying a new era of prosperity, benefiting from a rebound in the local job market and an expanding global economy.”
Wagstaff hits a home run on death of software
“All this takes us to a weird place: We somehow demand less and less from our software, so that we can declare a sort of victory. I love a lot of Web 2.0 apps but I’m not going to kid myself: They do one simple thing well — handle my tasks, say — or they are good at collaboration. They also load more quickly than their offline equivalents. But this is because, overall, they do less. When we want our software to do less quicker, they’re good. Otherwise they’re a pale imitation of more powerful, exciting applications in which we do most of our work.”
CIO salary survey: 13 millionaires; financial services take top spots
“The top three highest paid chief information officers in 2006 work for financial services firms.”
“With SOA services now in production within many organizations, system architects are realizing that the most critical control/governance issue is in runtime. Data point after data point has demonstrated that many SOA implementations are just not working in production as designed or expected. Reasons for this include:
- Lack of a single end-to-end governance technology or solution
- “Rogue services” in production
- No clear understanding of the demands and uses of services in production
- Manually populate registry metadata about the service lifecycle”
Architecture… Is it code, or is it data?
“We also need strong application models to decide what capabilities are ‘local’ to a widget, and what capabilities are ‘meta’ or require the coordination of multiple widgets. We need to be able to scale the functionality without scaling the database. We need to be able to encapsulate business rules in small, easily found, and easily changed modules that can be reused with near-abandon wherever they are called for. We need to be able to produce, quickly, a completely new application from existing run-time components without generating a complete regression test against the infrastructure. We need to insure that we limit the number of ‘points of failure’ so that weaknesses in hardware, networking, and databases can be overcome to provide a consistent and stable experience.”
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