I like a couple summary points in Moore’s article today “The Unattainable Real-Time Enterprise.”

 

·         “Unlike past generations of technology, today’s IT in and of itself is no longer a differentiator – what differentiates a business is its application of IT.”

 

I don’t agree with the first part of his statement (even in past generations of technology, do you really think differentiation was ever independent of the intelligent application of IT?), but I certainly agree with his conclusion that differentiation comes from a company’s application of IT.  I’ll consider that another vote for not outsourcing the brains of your IT organization!

 

He’s also applied his “core vs. context” thinking to SOA:

 

·         “What service oriented architectures do in the short-term is allow more business process flexibility, and that’s particularly important for core. It is a way to add capabilities that will differentiate and add to core on top of the powerful enterprise applications that more or less take care of the context, and that’s exciting.”