Eric Roch – Chief Strategist, IT Modernization & Integration

The CIO article, “Is it time for CIOs to step up and rule the digital world?” asks a good question. Can the CMO better lead a digital transformation and align IT with what is increasing a digital business than the CIO? This is an oversimplified question asking who but not what needs to be done? […]

The Harvard Business Review Article, “The Strategic Value of APIs” says, “…there are multiple ways APIs can generate growth for companies. While many may see APIs as just a technical concept, they clearly overlook the rising strategic significance of APIs. Particularly with the internet of things bringing digitization to all kinds of products and services, […]

A key question for today business is how to turn their brand into a platform. It’s thinking terms of systems platforms for e-commerce, social, search and so on that has transformed the digital landscape. Without what has become massive, internet-scale platforms these businesses would not exist. It is time for well established companies to view […]

A lot has been written about potential cost savings for SaaS as utility computing. SaaS has a subscription cost model versus a large upfront capital investment. However, there is another interesting aspect of moving to a SaaS model – the reduction of risk. And, the reduction of risk should also influence your investment decision. Let’s […]

Have you ever asked yourself why my work applications can’t be more like my mobile phone apps? My Smartphone is just amazing. I asked my phone “where am I” and it pulled up a map and showed me. I didn’t have to learn a new command. It was just an intuitive question and I really […]

II had a conversation with a product manager for a product labeled Complex Event Processing (CEP) but when I looked at the actual product implementation I asked why the product was labeled CEP versus Event Stream Processing (ESP). The product uses continuous queries and does not support Event Condition Action (ECA) rules. They responded that […]

If you are old enough to remember PCs coming into your business and the reaction most IT shops had to them, then Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and Cloud Computing services should seem like déjà vu. IT worried about PC security, backups and the lack of standards and all the while business people kept buying […]

Modern applications are multi-tiered and include technology such as a multi-channel presentation layer (web, mobile, cloud, B2B), an event driven business process layer, and services and APIs with legacy integrations. Yet our design deliverables have not kept up. See the full post on The SOA Blog

In this blog post I examine the methods and tools to test APIs for mobile and cloud. Post on The SOA Blog