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Enterprise Data Migration is Dead

Posted in Data Migration, Enterprise Architecture, Modernization, tagged , on January 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Data migration is dead, long live the enterprise architecture! The days of planning and executing a large scale data migration from one enterprise system to another, while maintaining on operational business, should be gone. There are too many failure modes in a modern enterprise extraction, transformation, and load (eETL) operation. Risk management initiatives are ill-equipped [...]

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FIELD NOTE: Personal Operational Readiness Plan for Enterprise Migration

Posted in Field Note, Modernization, Strategy, tagged , on October 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The risk of human failure is possible in any endeavor, not with standing the work that I am doing to help a client plan for the migration of an enterprise claims management system. As part of developing an operational readiness plan, which spans two and a half years, we are developing a wide variety of [...]

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eBiz – Do You Think That the Evolution of the Cloud is Decades Away?

Posted in cloud computing, eBiz, Modernization, tagged , , on September 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The eBiz question of the day is, “Do you agree with what Brain Stevens, CTO of Red Hat, said recently, that the adoption of cloud isn’t going to be in 2010, but that it will be several decades before we see the kind of evolution and maturation necessary to sway the big business to the cloud?” Evolution, [...]

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eBiz – Is Dirty Data Becoming a Showstopper for SOA?

Posted in Artificial Intelligence, eBiz, Modernization, SOA, tagged , on July 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

There are a lot of great questions coming out of eBiz and the latest I’d like to address is, “Is Dirty Data Becoming a Showstopper for SOA?“ Dirty data is one of the many reasons why service-oriented architectures (SOA) are so powerful. Gartner studies over the last decade have demonstrated that dirty data “leads to [...]

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Cloud Computing, Virtualization Still Strong After IT Decline

Posted in cloud computing, Modernization, tagged , , on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I just reviewed and excellent WSJ article by Roger Cheng that was posted on 21 October 2009. Cheng notes that “Amid the worst-ever decline in technology spending, corporations still invested in cloud computing and virtualization…” This is very good new, but I do take a bit of an issue or two with some of his [...]

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Swine Flu, Terrorism: Is Your Global Product Engineering Process Ready?

Posted in Modernization, Risk, tagged , , , on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This blog posting is a bit off the usual track, so please indulge me a bit. In the product engineering outsourcing business risk is everything, yet it is obviously nothing. In order achieve certainty (outcome certainty) around outsourced engineering activities, it is vital to evaluate all risk elements associated with the engineering lifecycle. Most organizations, [...]

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Top 25 Programming Errors – All Appropriate for SOA/SaaS

Posted in cloud computing, Modernization, Outsourcing, SaaS, SOA, Software Development Methodology, tagged , , on January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This week, the top 30 US and international cyber security organizations (e.g., Red Hat, EMC, Apple, MSFT, NSA, etc.) jointly released the consensus list of the 25 most dangerous programming errors that lead to security bugs and that enable cyber espionage and cyber crime. What this joint team found was that most of these error [...]

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To Rewrite or Refactor – That is the Question!

Posted in Modernization, tagged on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Martin Fowler heavily promoted and encourage the engineering concept of Refactoring. In “Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code,” Fowler discusses the basics behind how refactoring can make code simpler and easier to maintain. In addition to refactoring, the book identifies several other factor for improving code – all good techniques that software engineers should [...]

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Research & Development Roundtable: Modernization – Making Old Things New Again

Posted in Modernization, tagged on August 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

A bit of marketing new on an upcoming event: SIIA Research & Development Roundtable: Modernization – Making Old Things New Again OCTOBER 23 9 am – 11:30 am PT Bay Area, CA Most organizations do not have the luxury of rewriting their solutions from scratch in order to meet new emerging market or technology needs. [...]

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Top Five Criteria for Modernizing Your Software Application

Posted in Modernization, tagged , on June 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »

As a community, we are processing lots of field data as we continue to refine necessary and sufficient activities associated with software modernization. Some of it useful to the delivery organizations and some of it seems to be of value to management teams. As such, I thought I would just pass along just a few [...]

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