Microsoft's approach is to adopt a three-layer architecture, a component-based development model and, best of all, use of business process modelling (BPM) as the entry point to application development.
Operators that adopt the initiative could feasibly use it to create their own wireless platforms, allowing easy wireless access for both consumer and corporate email users, as well as for a whole raft of other consumer and corporate applications.
No matter whether you are approached by a systems integrator (for example a CSC or IBM GS), a workflow vendor (a Staffware or FileNet), an EAI vendor (a Tibco or WebMethods) or a BPM company (a Metastorm or PegaSystems), you get a common message...
Enterprise content management (ECM), web content and portal vendors are all rapidly converging their products to deliver BPM solutions. BPM is too important an idea to be ignored for long. Today, the focus is on information worker productivity and...
Google's Joe Kraus said: "This is just the next evolution in where OpenSocial needs to be heading, because it is a community-driven specification. Open standards like OpenSocial, OAuth, and OpenID have been some of the most heated subjects of...
It sums up perfectly the approach that an organisation needs to take to understand its requirements and adopt an IT strategy to help achieve them. For sustainability to be sustainable, the emphasis needs to be evolution, not revolution.