April 2008 Archives

Does your SOA initiative remind you more of the gunslinging, saloon-brawling days of the Wild West than of the intrepid pioneers? Don't feel bad -- most companies are still struggling to tame their Wild West SOA frontiers. The right approaches... Read More..

There's been quote a bit of discussion raging across the blogosphere as of late around the emerging concept of WOA, or Web Oriented Architecture, that may represent the the next phase of evolution of service oriented architecture. Essentially, WOA is... Read More..

Talk about legacy. Up until recently, both Lufthansa and United Airlines were using a 40-year old reservation system, written in Assembly language. Esther Schnidler, writing in CIO, describes how the airline migrated its green-screen-based system, which couldn't integrate with other... Read More..

There's been quite a bit of debate in the industry about whether SOA can deliver reasonable ROI within a reasonable timeframe. The consensus has been that it's going to take time, even years, for the benefits of SOA to take... Read More..

Dave Rosenberg, CEO of MuleSource, works with a lot of organizations that are starting their SOA journeys, and noticed that many make the same mistake: they spend all their time worry about the technical details of their implementations, but don't... Read More..

According to a report in ComputerWeekly, consumer goods company Proctor & Gamble is working on an ambitious service oriented architecture that will provide aggregated data for the company's 32,000 managers. To accomplish this, the company will be re-using up to... Read More..

There's been a lot of debate and discussion across the industry as to whether SOA can deliver value to the business early on, or if its more of a long-term process. For one company working with SOA methodologies for the... Read More..

Business-IT alignment... Has a day gone by over the past ten years that we have not heard that phrase? While it seems to be a constant but elusive dream -- like peace on Earth -- some companies indicate that SOA... Read More..

I recently had the opportunity to host an ebizQ Webinar on managing SOA performance with Forrester's Randy Heffner and AmberPoint's Ed Horst. SOA has a lot of moving parts, and digging down to spot the root cause of a service... Read More..

"The simultaneous growth of investment in BI and SOA technologies is no coincidence," says Gilman Tobin, senior director of BI product marketing for Oracle. Both are top strategic focus areas, and along with BPM, form the foundation for a new... Read More..

Why should self-respecting business care about event-driven architecture (EDA) and complex event processing (CEP)? Because almost every company has operational activities that run continuously and must respond to rapidly changing conditions. Roy Schulte, Gartner VP and one of the world's... Read More..

Everyone talks about how SOA is reshaping the roles and priorities of developers, but how much change can they really be seeing? Maybe the real big changes are happening elsewhere up the food chain. SearchSOA's Rich Seeley recently spoke with... Read More..