ERP in a Services Oriented World

I've just completed this White Paper in support of work that I'm currently doing in the Insurance sector to migrate organizations from traditional ERP systems to more agile platforms based on a blend of Master Data Management, SOA and Enterprise Mashup Portals. It's hard for CIOs to come to terms with the fact that business social networking and collaboration means that it's no longer possible to protect the enterprise by selectively cutting it off from the rest of the world behind Firewalls. This White Paper I've written for Encanvas describes how a blended strategy of ERP+MDM is a smarter move and encourages investments in 'IT growth innovation'.

Hope you like it. Ian.

Wake up JackBe, Encanvas v2 has arrived

It's been a frustrating year watching JackBe and Corizon running around the market while we sit on our hands and code ferociously to get Encanvas secure&live ready for market before Google Wave. I think of it as our 'wilderness year'!

Thankfully it's now coming to an end and in 2010 we have the launch of Encanvas v2 and Squork to look forward to. Unfortunately, we're still busy patenting the unique technologies that have been added to the platform so you'll have to bear with us on going public until the end of January. At least there will be a sneaky peak next week!

I'm delighted that we've been able to beat Google to the punch with what I believe is a more appropriate communications platform for web collaboration than Google Wave - which has had its doubters of late - but I'm sure, when the guys at Google overcome the short-comings of the beta,Google Wave will be a world class product.

At the TECHNOLOGY WORLD event in Coventry next week we'll be meeting with the major electronics companies of the world to introduce a truely world class enterprise mashups platform. Can't wait.

Thanks to everyone involved in Encanvas since the early days of 2002 for staying with the product. If you'd like to see a Webshow of the new technologies just let me know.

Idiots Guide to Enterprise Mashups

I keep getting asked for a simple overview on Enterprise Mashups. After looking around slideshare for a while it became apparent that descriptions of what Enterprise Mashups are about and what they're for tend to be really over complicated so I've penned a simple 10 slide overview.