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This week the JargonSpy mentions SAP's announcement of SAP Business Suite 7 and how it "highlights the difference between Oracle and SAP's strategies and sets the stage for a new episode in the two software giants' lengthy struggle for dominance."

The article goes on to examine how the battle between Oracle and SAP may play out, and how SAP Business Suite 7 will act as a new weapon.

You can read the column here.

The JargonSpy takes a look at virtualization across the enterprise this week. The column is a follow-up to the recent JargonSpy column titled Brick Walls of Virtualization. More »

This week, Dan Woods, aka The JargonSpy, uses his Forbes column to "take a tour through what people really mean when they speak of return on investment, and how the whole process of deciding whether to invest in technology can be healthy, depending on the relationship between the participants."

It's yet another illuminating JargonSpy column, which we are sure you will enjoy reading.

This week the JargonSpy column begins a discussion about how virtualization comes with "brick walls," burdens that are appearing as IT departments begin to take the technique to scale.

The column identifies the first brick wall as "the challenge of creating and managing system images, the software that runs when virtual machines are started."

It's an interesting column, which we invite you to read.

In his JargonSpy column this week, Dan Woods talks about how operational intelligence "merges the structured world of enterprise applications with the collaborative world of Web 2.0." Operational intelligence is an emerging concept that is based on watching information of a broad scope with new tools.

To learn about operational intelligence (OI), go to the article here.

This week, the JargonSpy looks at a simplified approach to SOA and asks "Has the use of SOA been slowed down because the most common mode of implementation--the Web Services Standards using the simple object access protocol (SOAP)--is too complex and heavyweight?" and "Is this form of implementation a necessary evil?" To read the full column, go here.

This week in his JargonSpy column, Dan Woods examines the role of the Information Visibility Expert, a person "who understands business information, the available information sources, and search and retrieval technology capabilities.

To learn about the Information Visibility Expert, go here.

In this week's installment of the JargonSpy column, Dan Woods says that "In IT, being cautious and skeptical often leads to the best outcome." Woods describes the scene at the Mashup Camps, where "a fascinating clash occurs between two types of techies: the Silicon Valley Hero and the IT True Believer." To read more about this clash, and to learn about the Silicon Valley Hero, click here.

Greg Carter has a post on Metastorm's Because Process Matters blog that calls attention to Dan Woods' March 3 JargonSpy column titled "Using BPM the Right Way." In his post, Carter offers some interesting insights to using BPM and shows us once again that the JargonSpy is reaching its target audience.