Author: Giles Nelson

Gordon Penfold, Chief Technology Officer, at British Airways, started off by telling us that not only is the Boeing 747 40 years old this year, but so is the IT that supports the 747. Having been early to the world of real-time processes, the technology is now facing end of life at the end of 2010,...

Tomorrow sees Progress Software taking over Stamford Bridge, home ground to the world-famous Chelsea Football Club. We’re not just there to check out the players’ dressing rooms – we are being joined by James Caan, of Dragons' Den fame, as well as the great and the good of the UK business...

I spent last week in India, a country that, by any standards, is growing fast.  Its population has doubled in the last 40 years to 1.2B and economic growth has averaged more than 7% per year since 1997.  It’s projected to grow at more than 8% in 2010. By...

On Friday last week I visited Progress customer, Royal Dirkzwager, in the Netherlands. It’s nice to be able to talk about a customer publically - Dirkzwager have been a generous public reference for some time. This was my first visit to their...

I published a post on our sister CEP blog last week. The topic has wider relevance than CEP so here's a link to it and I include the original text below. Enjoy.

I’d like to add my voice to the debate this week...

I recently took part in a roundtable discussion in London. Other participants included John Murdoch, Head of Consultancy from BT Global Services, a Progress Software customer and partner, Ruediger Spies, Independent Vice President Enterprise Applications from IDC, and members of the media....

Joe McKendrick's recent post comments that many analysts are now putting SOA governance and SOA management tools into a single category. He cites arguments that they are in fact very different, stating that while governance is about managing the development and the life cycle of services,...

There's good evidence that Complex Event Processing is transitioning from interesting but niche software technology into a more powerful theme within the software industry.

Let me present some evidence for this from a...

I've just read a Gartner research note by Massimo Pezzini published on the 16 November. It's titled Greater Business Process Insight Is an Unexpected Benefit of SOA. It argues that...