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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Next week, I'll be giving a talk at the Enterprise Architecture Conference entitled "SOA or Business Architecture: Who's on First".  In other words, the title I originally submitted got "punched up" by the conference promoter.  Not surprising, I lack the flagrant self promotion gene.

Anyway, during my session I'll be talking about Business, Service-Orientation, Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Architects.  With luck, at the end folks should be able to answer the "SOA or Business Architecture Who's on First" question.  (My other option was "SOA and Business Architecture: Chicken or Egg".  Given it's playoff time in Red Sox Nation, I went with the baseball theme.)

If you are attending the EAC conference, please drop into my session or look me up. 

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If you are going to Gartner's AADI Summit next week, make a point of attending the User Panel: Best Practices in Advanced SOA for the Enterprise, on Wednesday, June 13 at 11:00 am.  This high talent practitioner panel was put together by the SOA Consortium.  I've had the pleasure of interacting with each panelist, Nida Davis, CTO, American Red Cross, Surekha Durvasula, EA Manager, Kohl's and Yoav Intrator, CTO, Deutsche Bank Asset Management.  Each is experienced in SOA, enterprise architecture, and delivering value to the business. 

If you are attending the co-located EA Summit, you should catch Nida's case study session with one of her former business clients at the Federal Reserve.  And while I'm recommending practitioners I enjoy speaking with, go see John Turato's case study session on SOA and the Legacy.

Normally, this is where I tell you to contact me if you'll be at the event.  However, I'll be in Cumberland MD, representing the SOA Consortium at ArchitectureGov.  I'll be hosting a roundtable discussion on SOA, enterprise architecture and business architecture.  So, if you'll be there, drop me note: bmichelson at elementallinks dot com.

[Disclosure: The SOA Consortium is a client of Elemental Links.]

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Today is the third day of the Office 2.0 Podcast Jam.  So far, 8 podcasts are available.  All touch on different aspects of, as Cote says, "*2.0" (Office, Enterprise, Web).  Richard MacManus provided a great keynote on Office 2.0 as a paradigm shift.  He spoke of the importance of "Web native functionality" in "office" applications.  Anne Zelenka, the jam founder, conducted a jolting interview on what it really means to be a paperless office in Afghanistan.  Laura Blankenship described the barriers to *2.0 adoption in higher education.  Scott and Cote seemed to have a great time talking about Identity, Learning and Shame.  Ken Camp talked about the importance of presence, relevance and availability in respect to VOIP platforms.  Greg Olsen spoke of businesses "going bedouin".  Eric Severson spoke on the rules of Office 2.0, which I then proceeded to break in my mixing "*2.0" and SOA for a business-focused Enterprise Toolkit.

I've enjoyed all the podcasts, and have made notes to check into the following: dabbledb, coghead, zimbra, and embedded presence.  I'm sure that list will grow as the week goes on.  The great thing about these podcasts is they are informative, yet short.  The longest one is 15 minutes.  The average seems to be 7 minutes.  So, if you have a break between meetings and/or phone calls, jump on over.  I know I'll be back, I want to hear what Sandy has to say on "Web 2.0 and BPM", as well as the latest from the Office 2.0 conference (travel required to that one!).

For those interested in the technology behind the jam, see this post of Anne's.  For my own podcasting, I used Audacity and followed these instructions.  It was pretty simple, even for a podcast newbie. 

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