I am pleased to announce that the Social Foundry has partnered with MeterHero! What is MeterHero? MeterHero is a cloud based and mobile meter reading dashboard that enables customers to get instant access to their meter data. Whether it be water, gas or something else, MeterHero empowers utility customers to make informed choices about how to use their household resources wisely. The Social Foundry will providing the integration technology to enable utility systems to communi

The Social Foundry was invited to the IIUG conference to speak about the RISE in APIs and the role it has on social, mobile, and the cloud. It was a fun talk with like minded individuals and the views about the impact of REST based web services was confirmed by a number of developers. In essense, the REST revolution will result in an explosion of interconnected devices given the number of devices now outpace people in world. As the barriers to integration fall away, people wi

The Social Foundry will be presenting at the IIUG annual conference in Miami Sept 25-28. We will be discussing the role of APIs and how the current stock of databases managers need to be aware of the vast changes taking place as API growth is expected to skyrocket. Why DBA's? Because the vast majority of APIs will be database driven so the role of the DBA will extend beyond the just database layer and bleed into the application layer as APIs will become an extension of the da

Another successfull Dreamforce for the Social Foundry! After talking with folks at the show, it seems that integration is one of the most popular topics, but also the most difficult to solve. As predicted, most people we spoke to had their CRM and some other smaller apps on the cloud while the majority of their financial data is housed on-premise. This trend is going to continue until the Cloud can address issues of security and privacy (which the NSA's recent PRISM activitie

Here we are at Oracle Open World to showcase the SOAPbox release 1.4! This show represents the official launch of the product line past the beta and early adoptors stage! Our product has been well received so far but I was struck how people that are expert DBAs have little or no knowledge of web services. While I understand that web services reside on the application tier and not the database tier, the extension of the database is now the accessible via the web. As web servic