Today, I'm in sunny, but not warm, Orlando at OMG's Maximizing BPM Investments with SOA Workshop. Dave Linthicum just gave a keynote speech. Here are some quotes from his talk that convey good SOA, BPM and (yes) architectural common sense.
"The core business motivation is business agility"
"Organizations suffer from the business inflexibility trap. As a result of years of dragging stuff (new technology) in and bolting it on, IT is impeding business change"
"IT practices (quick hits and bolting on) is like hardening of the arteries.... trouble builds over time and eventually requires major surgery"
"SOA is not about connecting things, it is about enabling business processes and continual change"
"SOA is also known as good architecture"
"BPM and SOA were never unlinked. Can't have SOA without process. Process is more efficient with SOA"
"rather than 'rip and replace' old systems - make them work better together"
"SOA is not about technology, integration or middleware"
"Many perspectives on SOA: Business Processes, Services, Technology and Data""SOA is not something you buy, it is something you do"
[Disclosure: The OMG, as manager of the SOA Consortium, is a client of my company, Elemental Links]
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