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Over time, we have all heard software vendors, analysts, consultants, and media talk about architectures. They use terms like enterprise architecture, software architecture, service-oriented architecture (SOA), event-driven architecture (EDA), and enterprise services architectures.Is IT like the art world, where there are movements and styles, with leaders who set radical new ... Continue reading Understanding the Concept of Architecture in the IT Jungle »

Today, Infor announced Infor Flex, a new program that gives customers a clear, fast and cost effective path to adopt Infor's latest product innovations. Jim Schaper, Infor's Chairman and CEO, provides a short introduction to Infor Flex in this video. Below the video is an overview presentation. Infor Flex Overview ... Continue reading Infor Flex »

Hi all, Greetings from Las Vegas! We are having our annual Inforum conference and one of the big announcements, one that I am personally most proud of, is Infor MyDay. Infor MyDay is a new Web 2.0 user interface for Infor applications, but since it’s based on Infor Open SOA ... Continue reading Infor MyDay »

A common mistake when people talk about SOA is to lump it together with web services. Some people think that SOA is web services because they get lost in the discussion when acronyms like SOAP, UDDI and WSDL are thrown around. Let’s not even mention WS-AtomicTransaction, WS-BusinessActivity, WS-Policy, WS-ReliableMessaging… the ... Continue reading REST is the BEST »

If you call someone on the telephone today, you will almost always connect to the person you are trying to reach. The technology is so trustworthy that you no longer question whether or not you will be able to reach people on the other side of the world. However, if ... Continue reading OAGi – Defining a Common Business Language for SOA »

Part 5 of 5 in a series of posts focused on the Infor Product Strategy Let’s look at a specific example of a component that we are creating that offers non-disruptive innovation: Multi-book General Ledger component that will be delivered in early 2009. In talking to controllers and other financial ... Continue reading A Component Example »

Part 4 of 5 in a series of posts focused on the Infor Product Strategy Infor has identified six broad areas of concern that we call the “Six Pillars of the Networked Enterprise.” These pillars provide the framework that allows customer solutions to interoperate and collaborate in a heterogeneous world. ... Continue reading The Six Pillars of the Networked Enterprise »

Part 3 of 5 in a series of posts focused on the Infor Product Strategy In the last post, we talked about the complexities of adding features to a core ERP, using a dice analogy. As you add features in this way, it exponentially increases complexity. As Infor adds new ... Continue reading Component Architectures »

What do a cell phone, cable TV box, car entertainment system, application server, integrated development environment (IDE) and enterprise application all have in common? Well, from a software standpoint, many of these devices and applications are now written in Java. But that’s not the only thing they have in common. ... Continue reading OSGi: Like “Lego’s” for Software »

Earlier, I posted about why SOA was important, specifically in how it can help customers ease the burden of upgrading their systems and extend the usefulness of their existing applications. I’d like to talk a little more about this shift in development that is occurring to help make this possible ... Continue reading Only the Agile Survive »