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Politics and Ignorance: No friends of B2B
Ever since the financial services industry meltdown and the subsequent worldwide recession I’ve had frequent conversations with our clients and various B2B integration software and services companies i...
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Will the Steaming Compost Heap of B2B Nurture the Cloud?
Last winter for the first-time in my life I created a compost heap. My first attempt wasn’t as large as this steaming beauty down under… … but indeed the fires of bacteria were raging such that the...
View ArticleDoing B2B? E-Commerce? Cloud computing? Don’t forget – its about PROCESS
I am a stickler for doing things *in context*. Ask my wife – she’ll be cooking and ask me to fetch the cooking wine and I’ll ask her “why?”. That’s right – asking for context when her stir-fried shrimp...
View ArticleLiaison and ADX Fuel The B2B Frenzy
Yesterday Liaison — a vendor I recently evaluated for our recent update to the Magic Quadrant for Integration Service Providers (login required) announced that it is acquiring ADX — another B2B vendor...
View ArticleA Cloud API Manifesto for Integration As A Service
Three events last week connected some dots on Cloud APIs for integration as a service: My peer review of Eric Knipp‘s upcoming case study on New York Time’s Open WOA A client specifically asked me —...
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IBM Acquires Sterling Commerce — And Ups the Ante on B2B
Just on the heals of IBM acquiring Cast Iron Systems a few weeks ago, today IBM announced that it is acquiring Sterling Commerce for $1.4b in cash. Adding to other recent events such as GXS acquiring...
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2011 Predictions for Integration, B2B and Cloud Services Brokerage
In the run-up to Year-End 2010 my colleagues and I published our annual 2011 Predicts reports, featuring a wide range of predictions related to integration, B2B and cloud computing. These Predicts 2011...
View ArticleAre Nine Solution Patterns for Integration Brokerage Enough?
When is enough, enough? Yesterday I published research that enumerates and describes nine different integration brokerage (IB) solution patterns — Integration Brokerage Solution Patterns Address Many...
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1,000 Gartner Clients Served (!)
Yesterday I completed a call on the topic of EDI and B2B integration with a client and coincidentally also achieved a professional milestone: the client, La-Z-Boy Inc. (named with permission — thank...
View ArticleLiaison Acquires Hubspan — And Other B2B Claim Stakes
In recent years the B2B market segment has been fairly active — see Update on The B2B Frenzy and IBM Acquires Sterling Commerce — And Ups the Ante on B2B. Activity tends to occur in waves, and the last...
View ArticleIn the age of APIs why do 2 million companies interact via B2B networks?...
While doing primary research in preparation for our soon-to-be published Market Guide for Integration Brokerage I’ve discovered that over 2 million companies (growing, fast) world-wide connect and...
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RESTful API’s – Alone – Often Aren’t Sufficient for Successful IoT Integration
For years I’ve admired the following picture … Source: AutoWP.ru … because it’s a terrific metaphor for complex systems – and the challenge of assembling them. Lately I’ve been using this figure as a...
View ArticleDoing B2B? E-Commerce? Cloud computing? Don’t forget – its about PROCESS
I am a stickler for doing things *in context*. Ask my wife – she’ll be cooking and ask me to fetch the cooking wine and I’ll ask her “why?”. That’s right – asking for context when her stir-fried shrimp...
View ArticleLiaison and ADX Fuel The B2B Frenzy
Yesterday Liaison — a vendor I recently evaluated for our recent update to the Magic Quadrant for Integration Service Providers (login required) announced that it is acquiring ADX — another B2B vendor...
View ArticleA Cloud API Manifesto for Integration As A Service
Three events last week connected some dots on Cloud APIs for integration as a service: My peer review of Eric Knipp‘s upcoming case study on New York Time’s Open WOA A client specifically asked me —...
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IBM Acquires Sterling Commerce — And Ups the Ante on B2B
Just on the heals of IBM acquiring Cast Iron Systems a few weeks ago, today IBM announced that it is acquiring Sterling Commerce for $1.4b in cash. Adding to other recent events such as GXS acquiring...
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2011 Predictions for Integration, B2B and Cloud Services Brokerage
In the run-up to Year-End 2010 my colleagues and I published our annual 2011 Predicts reports, featuring a wide range of predictions related to integration, B2B and cloud computing. These Predicts 2011...
View ArticleAre Nine Solution Patterns for Integration Brokerage Enough?
When is enough, enough? Yesterday I published research that enumerates and describes nine different integration brokerage (IB) solution patterns — Integration Brokerage Solution Patterns Address Many...
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1,000 Gartner Clients Served (!)
Yesterday I completed a call on the topic of EDI and B2B integration with a client and coincidentally also achieved a professional milestone: the client, La-Z-Boy Inc. (named with permission — thank...
View ArticleLiaison Acquires Hubspan — And Other B2B Claim Stakes
In recent years the B2B market segment has been fairly active — see Update on The B2B Frenzy and IBM Acquires Sterling Commerce — And Ups the Ante on B2B. Activity tends to occur in waves, and the last...
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