Web 2.0 & Enterprise Mashups

Today Lithium Technologies, the leading provider of on-demand customer community solutions for the enterprise, announced that it has acquired Keibi Technologies, Inc., the leader in automated content discovery, analysis, and moderation for online communities. The acquisition extends Lithium’s lead in delivering highly successful communities by giving brands the power to immediately discover, analyze, and moderate user-generated content of all kinds that might impact their brands on the web. Keibi’s technology adds to the Lithium application a content analysis platform proven at ... (more)

What's the Best Definition of SOA?

It seems that I am not as flexible as I believed I could be on my thinking regarding SOA. I attempted to categorize various SOA engagements in my SOA World Magazine article entitled “A Classification Scheme for Defining SOA”. I believed that I could hide my dissatisfaction with the lack of clarity surrounding SOA by lumping SODA/application development into its own subcategory. I was wro... (more)

Implementing SOA Without Enterprise Mashups? You Might As Well Kiss Your Job Goodbye!

John Crupi's Blog Ok, ok, it's an overstatement. But the ROI of SOA is difficult, at best, to define and measure. Have you noticed that the press and blogosphere is filled with SOA implementers/analysts discussing the ROI of SOA and the idea that stand-alone SOA efforts are DOA? For a small snapshot of this teacup tempest, look no further than the recent commentary from SOA expert David L... (more)

Infonetics Research: Service delivery platform market doubling by 2013

CAMPBELL, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 06/02/09 -- Market research firm Infonetics Research recently released its Service Delivery Platform Software and Integration Services report, which tracks fixed-line and mobile SDP software and integration services. Highlights from the market share and forecast report follow, and clients are invited to participate in an analyst-led telebriefing summarizing... (more)