All businesses face rapid and continuous change. Companies are constantly striving to find new ways to attract and retain customers and partners, increase operational efficiency, and achieve greater visibility into their business processes. At the same time, business units and IT organizations are being tasked to do more with less – better and faster than at any point in recent history, all the while watching the bar raise with continued pressure for creating new market opportunities and delivering obvious competitive differentiation.

At Adesso we've written a white paper about the business imperative for distributed application. Read more here.

Thanks to Don and his The Next Big Thing for writing such a great article about what we're doing here at Adesso. I just hope that we don't suffer the fate of Napster that he described in an earlier post.

Another great blog is Sam Ramji's that focuses on venture capital and market trends.

Sam Gentile's been blogging a lot lately ... and I'm glad he's back. Sam hits the nail on the head at the end of his most recent post -- distributing business processes to the edge of your organization and across firewall boundaries, requires not only SOA ... but it's also not just about being mobile.

At Adesso we think that this is the extra piece of DNA that's missing when I see the latest "Always Connected, Always On" presentations from Microsoft. It's also about having your applications always available -- regardless of your ability to connect to the network.

WinFS Team Blog

Here's a couple more links:

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Cliff (thanks for the link!)

Barb Darrow @ CRN

Well ... It certainly has been awhile. I've been heads down for awhile with my work here at Adesso.

But ... I just got finished taking the covers off of what we've been working on here at PDC 2005 in LA.

Just finished the WinFS Overview/Deep Dive Session where we got to show off a version of Adesso V3 that was modified to be able to synchronize with WinFS.

As you've hopefully already heard about … there are a collection of technologies that when taken together comprise WinFS, the future relational file system of Windows. With these APIs you can build sophisticated apps that leverage the file system in ways that go well beyond what you've been able to do until now. The bar is being raised dramatically.

At Adesso, we share a similar vision. We have a platform that offers enterprise-class collaboration, security and seamless connectivity. From the back-office to the front-office and beyond to the mobile worker. We’re all about unifying, organizing and distributing your digital world.

When we synchronize, Adesso distributes not only the design and the data of an application, but also the files, messages, and alerts and access control rules that have been associated with it.

Under the covers, our platform uses the latest web-service standards – we’re a shrink-wrapped service-oriented architecture.

With this approach to building distributed applications, you get the power of the connected model – in locations where you might not even have a network.
And we do this across the spectrum Windows devices that are on the market today – Windows Mobile, TabletPC, Laptop/Desktop, and Servers.

At Adesso we like to call this always available computing.

Lots has been happening over the past six months. I had to shift into a mode that took me not only away from blogging -- but also from reading blogs.

I have been writing, however. I helped write and publish a white paper this past winter around Always Available Computing Always Available Computing: Best Practices for Empowering Today's Mobile Work Force

I also wrote an article for the July 2005 PocketPC Magazine (link to follow).