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In his recent Advisor "Service-Oriented Agile Projects -- Contradiction or Necessity?" Cutter Senior Consultant Paul Allen wrote that "agile projects have often struggled with delivering ...

Perhaps you remember the public service campaign from 1960s television that went something like, "It's 10 pm. Do you know where your children are?" For IT, we could rephrase it as; "It's 2009. Do you know where your data is?" You probably don't, especially if it's in the hands of your partners or outsourcers.

I've been researching the state of the art in mining social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Yelp, CNET Reviews, Epicurious, IMDb, TripAdvisor, Yahoo! Finance, Amazon, and WebMD.

This is the fifth and last of a series of Executive Updates in which I have been presenting and interpreting the results of a recent Cutter Consortium survey on the subject of open source Java frameworks (OSJFs).

A harsh economic recession calling for renewed cost reduction with an emphasis on tactical solution-delivery projects causes concerns over the effectiveness of enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA) and puts agile methodologies back in the limelight. SOA and agile are commonly seen as opposites, but opposites that don't attract.

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"The cloud" is important, yes, but in my view it isn't rocket science (or even atmospheric science). I think of it as just another step in outsourcing and pushing everything into a commodity, which for me creates only "modified rapture."

This Webinar first looks at what we mean by collaboration and why we do it. Then, it looks at the impact on traditional business transaction processing when we try to add collaboration.