November 2007 Archives

In this second part of a two-part post on SOA governance, experts discuss some solutions to addressing SOA governance. Part I was a discussion of the most vexing challenges. Pat Walsh says one way to effectively deliver SOA governance is... Read More..

Everyone talks about SOA governance these days, but few have been able to get their arms around it. Experts I spoke with for the recent InfoWorld series of podcasts talked about the challenges associated with SOA governance, and ways to... Read More..

As far as SOA is concerned, the days of exploration, speculation, and tire-kicking are over. It's time to get down to business. SOA implementations no longer focus on prototypes and proof of concept, says Accenture's David Nichols. Instead of seeking... Read More..

As part of my recent industry experts podcast series for InfoWorld, I explored the emerging trend toward Event-Driven Architecture, and how it fit into SOA as we know it today. Below are some of the pressing questions about EDA, and... Read More..

There are a bunch of ways to measure SOA success -- development hours spent on projects, speed of new product rollouts, deferred enterprise application upgrades, cost savings by switching from live customer service to self-service Web access. But one company... Read More..

There's been a lot of debate across the industry as to whether SOA works best when rolled out through smaller, targeted projects, or as part of a broader enterprise effort. For Pat Walsh, VP of marketing for IONA, there's no... Read More..

There's been a lot of debate over how to best measure SOA success. The truth is, unfortunately, most companies don't have any metrics in place. They simply don't know what's working -- it just seems right, or anecdotally, people are... Read More..

I’ll be keynoting this week’s SOA Congress, being held in the beautiful city of Mainz, Germany. The topic is “Roadmap to SOA - How to implement a Successful SOA Project� — I’ll be talking about the role SOA proponents need... Read More..

ebizQ colleague Elizabeth Book provides a wrap-up of BEA CTO Paul Patrick's keynote at this week's InfoWorld SOA Executive Forum. Paul talked in depth about the growing convergence between SOA and Web 2.0 social computing initiatives. He noted that people... Read More..

It's clear SOA is showing many benefits to IT operations, improving developer productivity through reuse, and making it unnecessary to change 50 interfaces when a customer wants a change. But how much of an impact is SOA having on the... Read More..

SOA is more than service-oriented architecture. It's the underlying philosophy to a a variety of converging trends reshaping the way technology is advancing business. This 'mashup' of trends that engage SOA was in evidence at this week's InfoWorld SOA Executive... Read More..

Service oriented architecture has come a long way over the past decade, and progress has been impressive. But issues around immature standards and proprietary platforms still make the SOA dream elusive -- and don't expect any significant progress any time... Read More..

It was just a couple of years ago that talk of "service-oriented architecture" raised many skeptical eyebrows. As the old wise saying goes, 'If it seems to good to be true, it probably is.' In many respects, SOA -- with... Read More..