September 2007 Archives

Over at the spicy ITGumbo blog community, Leah Archibald has put together some great in-the-trenches views of what it means to be service-orienting. Leah's Mumbo Gumbo comic takes us through the first step on the road to SOA, which is:... Read More..

In anticipation of the upcoming "SOA in Action" virtual conference, October 30-31, ebizQ's own Gian Trotta recently chatted with Randy Heffner of Forrester Research to talk about some of the misconceptions around service-oriented architectures these days. Randy will be keynoting... Read More..

A couple of years back, at brokerage giant Morgan Stanley, it became obvious that the firm's information technology was a drag on its competitiveness. As this new article by Penny Crosman relates, the brokerage giant turned to service-oriented architecture to... Read More..

Since its current inception a few years back, SOA has been mainly about delivering integration and agility within the corporate firewalls. But there's a vast frontier -- business-to-business interactions -- that some SOA implementations have only begin to tap. In... Read More..

It may sound like heresy for a blog that is supposed to tout the wonders of SOA in Action, but not all great integration projects have to be strictly about SOA, at least in the strictest sense of the definition.... Read More..

In a recent post, I talked about how BT, the UK telecom giant, has been in the process of shutting down hundreds of legacy systems as it moves deeper into SOA. However, Michael Oara of Relativity, reacting to this report,... Read More..

Everyone knows retail is a tough, dog-eat-dog business. And, in recent years, it's been no fun being a department store. They that have been eaten up by specialty stores and big-box warehousey stores alike. "It's a street fight everyday," said... Read More..

Andy Baer, CIO of Comcast, helped kick off the BEA World conference in San Francisco this week with a keynote presentation on the communications giant's efforts to employ SOA methodologies to better connect customer service activities, and thus avoid such... Read More..

When is the best time to turn off legacy systems once their functions are captured in the SOA middleware layer? The sooner the better, says the chief architect at BT, the UK-based telecom mega-giant. A new report from InformationWeek's Charles... Read More..

Lorraine Lawson at IT Business Edge just surfaced some helpful words on SOA planning from the director of enterprise architecture and strategic planning for U.S. Coast Guard. If this is what the Coast Guard recommends, you can't go wrong. Not... Read More..

There's been quite a bit of debate in the industry as of late as to whether a "bottom-up" or "top-down" approach is the best way to roll out an SOA program. Why not do both? ebizQ colleague David Kelly has... Read More..

New research from Aberdeen Group shows that to effectively test and provide QA to SOA, companies are testing not only vertically (using unit and functional testing as their benchmark for quality) but are also testing horizontally across an entire business... Read More..