January 2008 Archives

At this week's Open Group Enterprise Architecture conference conference, I had the opportunity to join a vigorous panel discussion in which we performed a "reality check" on the state of SOA. We were joined by moderator Eric Knorr of InfoWorld,... Read More..

How big will complex event processing (CEP) get? Long seen as a technical backwater, some industry observers say CEP is going to be huge, that it's the next big thing at the intersection of SOA, business process management, and data... Read More..

In this blogsite and many others, we constantly talk about business systems "agility" as the holy grail of service-oriented architecture, business analytics, and everything else. But what exactly is agility, and how do we know when we have it? That's... Read More..

What lessons have we learned from SOA that can be applied to Web 2.0? Plenty. But perhaps the most important is the role of governance, so organizations can get the most out of the services that are created under their... Read More..

Increasingly, industry analysts and practitioners are connecting the dots between three emerging megatrends -- SOA, Web 2.0, and Business Intelligence. It's becoming increasingly clear that the combination of SOA and Web 2.0 technologies is changing the face of business intelligence.... Read More..

Almost half of respondents that have responded so far to a new ebizQ survey report they have SOA solutions already in place somewhere within their enterprises, but these efforts are scattered. One out of four at this time report having... Read More..

"I hear there is going to be a recession. I decided not to participate." - Sam Walton I've been engaged in an across-the-blogosphere discussion of what the implications of an economic downturn would mean for service-oriented architecture. Tony Baer discusses... Read More..

How do you get executives as excited about service oriented architecture as you are? Here's some advice I pulled together in a new article published in this month's Insurance Networking News: Focus on the business benefit, not technical benefit: Business... Read More..

There's been quite a bit of confusion and controversy over the role Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) plays in gluing business processes together with an SOA context. Some analysts even say that BPEL is not a language, it's not a... Read More..

Looking for a quick way to show your business what SOA can do for it? Neil Macehiter and Neil Ward-Dutton of Macehiter Ward-Dutton offer a series of five visuals here at ebizQ which say it all. Check it out here.... Read More..

Service-oriented architecture is a very popular concept, but with that popularity comes a price. Namely, finding people with the skills to help put SOA in place is a growing challenge. Last year, ZapThink's Ron Schmelzer sounded warning bells about a... Read More..

SOA is ultimately a big initiative, and we lean on our enterprise architects and IT staffs to make it happen. How do these overworked folks do it? As Michael Hugos so eloquently put it in a recent ComputerWorld piece, architects... Read More..

SOA, by its very nature, encourages a highly decentralized, loosely coupled approach to management. That's why it often is a difficult fit within organizations that attempt to shoe-horn "SOA" approaches into rigid, hidebound corporate cultures. Progress Software's Hub Vandervoort recently... Read More..

Two colleagues here at ebizQ have weighed in on the most vexing issue in the SOA world these days: how does SOA mesh with mashups, SaaS, and all the other aspects of the Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 wave. Krissi... Read More..