Reposted from www.erp4it.com: The Distributed Management Task Force has announced the formation of a <http://www.dmtf.org/newsroom/releases/2003_12_15> Server...
from www.erp4it.com Making lemonade out of IT mandates Regulatory and other Board-level mandates such as business continuity are a popular topic this year in...
DMTF/OMG alignment, finally! A Usually Reliable Government Source has informed me that the <http://www.dmtf.org/> DMTF is finally set on aligning its...
Some very good ITSM (IT Service Management) coverage continues to come out of <http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/service/> Datamation, have a look. Especially...
Those attentive to current debates in software engineering and around the software development lifecycle are probably aware of the emerge of "agile" methods...
Charlie, IMHO, the difference can be seen in examining parallels: The practice of ITSM is to the practice of Software Development what Governing is to...
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Just a quick note - the conference is properly called DAMA International Symposium + Wilshire Meta-Data Conference, being a merger of two previously distinct...
MessageCharlie-- As the host of MDA Journal, in which Steve's article appeared, let me assure you, as I mentioned in my introduction to the article, that...
Very valid comments! Microsoft must really be very worried about the idea of MDA reducing vendor lock-in for them to produce a FUD paper like this. I've...
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MessageI have recently authored a couple of short articles that touch on Charles' question, "Can ITSM be agile?" The first is entitled 'Has CASE Morphed into...
I have posted a first draft of the first installment in my Fundamentals of Integration Metadata series. It is a foundation piece, delving into the concept of...
MessageJeff, I checked out your ITScout website for visualization software. There are a couple of interesting links in the BI Tools section. But I'm...
John, I do expect this to be available in my lifetime, but not for a while yet. BTW, it should handle Grid and Virtual computing in which configurations change...
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The practical use of this view is impact analysis and risk assessment! Chris Capadouca Enterprise Architecture & Integration Best Buy, Inc. ...
MessageI responded to a similar question from another reader, so let me try to clarify why this would be useful and what a visualization capability would look...
Here's the link: http://www.bptrends.com/publicationfiles/02%2D04%20COL%20Resp%20to%20Coo k%20Frankel%2DGuttman1%2Epdf Thanks for the credit Dave. -ctb ... ...
Interesting history on the Microsoft Repository Here's a good <http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=2638> article from 2000 on the Microsoft Repository at the...
John - ... Please to expand on what you mean by "queue objects". Mention of specific tools (this is NOT my territory) would be very helpful. - David...
Charlie - ... Whew! That 2000 Mike Bucken/ADT piece http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=8838 explains a lot about the outrageous article in the February 2004...
I feel much the same way about the way CMDBs emerged with no reference to metadata repositories. I still have not seen any ITSM commentator or consultant...
David, In this example, we used IBM's MQSeries (now called WebSphere MQ or WMQ) product for our message-based pub-sub guaranteed delivery infrastructure. We...
Charlie - CMDB = content management database? or configuration management database? Just love those buzz words. I remember a conversation a while back where...
Greetings all, Anyone else out there using COBIT? Of the three major frameworks getting a lot of mindshare nowadays - ITIL and CMM being the other two - COBIT ...
All, This is a survey. If you have benefited in any way from my contributions, please consider assisting me in this: I am interested in finding out what "good"...