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Don't miss the live roundtable over at DM Radio tomorrow, June 18th!
The Jitterbit 3.0 Beta Arrives
Jitterbit 3.0 Beta is now available and we're incredibly excited about the breadth and depth of the new features. As with our previous releases, Jitterbit 3.0 was not developed in a vacuum, but with the input of our entire user community and our ever-growing list of great customers. The result is a release that has a little something for everyone.
With 2.0, our focus was on simplifying the design of your integrations. Response to the integration process designer was universally positive and we were very pleased with the new levels of productivity it added to Jitterbit. But our work is never done. The next step in simplifying integration was to apply these same goals to the management of integration. This is what 3.0 is all about.
SaaS Without An Integration Plan Creates Business Silos
Our CEO, Sharam, just published a great article on ebizQ that discusses the requirements for integration when you go the SaaS route. If you plan to adopt SaaS, integration needs to be a forethought, not an afterthought.
An excerpt from Sharam's tips on how to pick the right integration solution:
- Native connectivity to the most popular standard enterprise applications, legacy systems and databases, as well as the innate capability to connect with modern Web services APIs.
An Open Letter to Barack Obama: Why Open Source is the Solution for Our Open Government
Dear President Obama,
I have read with great interest your technology agenda and am pleased by reports that you have asked for an official statement on the advantages the government may gain by using open source.
Dreamforce 2008 Postmortem: The End Of IT As We Know It, Part III
Posted By Larry Dyson, Director of Services, November 21st, 2008
Dreamforce 2008 was great. It wasthe largest expo I have seen at the event and the salesforce.com organizers really out-did themselves. Thanks to Salesforce for a great event!
So far we've talked about what is happening to IT departments all over the world and why it's happening. This time let's look at this challenge from a budgeting perspective. Also, I’ll share some tips for those IT members who see your department declining on how to save yourselves and your department.
Countdown to Dreamforce 2008 | The End Of IT As We Know It Part II
Posted By Larry Dyson, Director of Services, October 13th, 2008
"If you can't support growth and innovation because you're not a disciplined organization that moves fast and surely - then you become irrelevant."
The Gartner Group
A little bit about me. I've been working in IT environments for 14 years. However, my interest in computers began with the Apple II. The first program I ever wrote went something like this:
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Count Down To Dreamforce 2008 | The End Of IT As We Know It
Posted By Larry Dyson, Director of Services, October 1st, 2008
I'm certainly not the first person to profess the idea that IT is doomed because of its own bad decisions and failure to deliver measurable value to the business for the last 10 plus years. But this is a reality that is hitting home to more and more companies.
Jitterbit 2.0: Open Source Meets Enterprise Integration
Posted by: Ilan Sehayek, CTO, August 18th 2008
Jitterbit 2.0 has arrived and it feels great to finally get this latest version out there for everyone to use. Many of our customers participated in our beta program and the initial reaction all around was incredibly positive. I could be accused of some level of bias, but I say without hesitation that Jitterbit 2.0 truly is the next level of open source integration whether your challenge is SOA, SaaS integration, ETL or Business Process fusion. If you’ve used previous versions of Jitterbit you’ll find this readily apparent from the moment you install it. For those of you starting your integration experience with the 2.0 version, it’s a great time to jump in!
Jitterbit wins an Infoworld Bossie!
Posted by: Dan Oxenburgh, August 5th 2008
You like us, you really like us!
Infoworld announced their 2008 Bossie awards today. Chosen by InfoWorld Test Center editors, analysts, and reviewers, InfoWorld’s Bossies (or Best of Open Source Software awards) “celebrate the best products that open source has to offer” – and we walked away with the award for Best of Data Migration!
What is Open Source Support?
Posted by: Ilan Sehayek, CTO, June 15th 2008
I responded to an industry open source survey yesterday and one of the questions was "Does your company use a support or dual-license business model?". I instinctively answered "support" and moved on.
In hindsight I wish I'd taken more time to answer because "Support" means different things to different vendors in the rapidly growing commercial open source industry.
This industry survey was missing a follow up question, "What is included in your company's support offering?"
