Tag: service oriented architecture

Last week, I had an opportunity to listen to some of our top solution spokespeople here at Progress Software present, watch the audience respond, and then drink with the sales people who are tasked to sell our solutions in what could be the worst economy in recent history. I made a note to myself...

An article in the Wall Street Journal today on approaches to IT Outsourcing (The Goldilocks Strategy) has definite parallels to what I've seen with SOA...

At our annual sales kickoff in Miami last week, I heard a story about one of the Regional Sales Managers that put a smile on my face, and it made me like Progress a little more. When asked by the CFO how he did last year, the regional sales manager responded "six cents".

Six cents....

Down in Florida for Progress' annual sales kickoff meeting and using the opportunity to visit my grandparents. Needing a car to get around, I rented a low-end model from Dollar/Thrifty, an Actional customer....

I'm a bad blogger. I've been very quiet lately. It's that time of year, after our fiscal year ends, but before we announce our results, and so I've obviously been busy with customers (remember them?) but can't really share the excitement.

I was trying to find the recording from last month's...

Presented by Dan Foody, VP of Products for Actional at Progress Software

Is SOA dead? It seems the technology buzz these days is all about cloud computing. What's the difference? Do they complement one another? Listen to this podcast and hear Dan talk candidly about how...

Enterprises of all types see increasing value in standards-based development and integration, and they often look to the TM Forum for deep and consistent models of business process, data, applications and system architecture. Moving from analysis through design...

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 was at Software AG's SOA Governance Summit last week and got a chance to see Gartner analyst Frank Kenney give a presentation - on SOA Governance of course.  As always, Frank did a great job - but there is one...