I’m a really big fan of asking questions, especially of ourselves. My absolute favorite question is “Are we operating at maximum effectiveness? What could we do to improve right now?” (okay, two questions). This is hardly a radical idea, but I have found it is useful for dealing with two situations I routinely run into both inside our company and at customers or prospects…. Read the rest of this entry »

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Of all the current hyped technologies right now, virtualization is second only to software as a service for me in excitement. Here is a good story from AMD about how Deloitte uses blades and virtualization effectively. This article really caught my eye because the hardware being used is very similar to what GXS is deploying as our next generation blade platform. We are currently making production use of VMWare, and experimenting with XenSource as a possible next generation platform. Read the rest of this entry »

Today is my second day at webMethods Integration World 2006 show, which has been really interesting and enjoyable.  If you use webMethods in your shop, this is a really great event, as you get lots of information on the future, and can chat with your fellow users.

What struck me today though, was a major (though definitely not the only) source of ideas for features, especially in the user interface.  A major area of investment for webMethods over the past few years has been Read the rest of this entry »