December 2008 Archives

Here is the third and final part of our review of SOA implementations that surfaced in the year 2008. SOA underpins new cloud-based offerings. For Fred Luddy, CEO of Service-now.com, SOA was the only logical way to achieve the vision... Read More..

Here is the second part of our review of SOA implementations that surfaced in the year 2008. To speed up the pace of mergers and acquisitions. A recent acquisition doubled Mohawk Fine Papers' manufacturing network doubled to six sites, and... Read More..

One of the main things I hope to accomplish with this blog is to show you working examples of where SOA is making a difference, and we spotted quite a few examples over the course of 2008. Here is the... Read More..

Jaimin Patel has just published a seasonally appropriate  -- and hilarious -- article here at ebizQ comparing SOA to the ubiquitous fruitcake. As Jaimin observes, fruitcakes are often maligned, as is the case with SOA:Sadly, it's rather unlikely that the... Read More..

SOA alone may not get the US auto companies through their current tough predicament, but it certainly is helping to alleviate some of the stresses these organizations are facing in their operations. One area that automakers may keep doing well,... Read More..

The following is a full transcript from Maneesh Joshi and Mohan Udyavar's presentation at ebizQ's recent SOA in Action conference earlier this fall. (Archived presentation available here.) Beth Gold-Bernstein:  Hello and welcome to the ebizQ SOA in Action Virtual Conference. ... Read More..

Okay, so you've designed and created SOA-compliant services. Now the challenge is determining who's using these services, and how often -- before your systems are brought to their knees. These are some of the issues discussed by Larry Fulton, senior... Read More..

In recent times, organizations have been focusing on establishing governance practices for their service oriented architectures that address business alignment with services and service discovery and reuse. But what about services outside the walls of the organization?  What about services... Read More..

The following is a full transcript from Larry Fulton's keynote presentation at ebizQ's SOA Governance conference earlier this fall. (Archived presentation available here.)Beth Gold-Bernstein:  Hello and welcome to the ebizQ SOA Governance Virtual Conference.  I'm Beth Gold-Bernstein, Chair of the... Read More..

Last week,I published a feature article here at ebizQ on the urgency of integrating and managing the data that flows through SOAs. Boris Lublinsky also discusses this challenge in a recent article, which looked at a proposal published by Brian... Read More..

Fellow ebizQ analyst Brenda Michelson reports the results of the SOA Consortium first-ever "SOA Soapbox Derby," intended to provide a 15-minute platform for participants to talk about important SOA issues on their minds. Some soapbox highlights (with links to the... Read More..

In the banking world, centralized payment systems is one of those things on everyone's wish list, but a long way until reality. A new report by Jim Gahagan in American Banker says SOA may be a help here.The challenge for... Read More..

Yesterday, I posted some thoughts on how companies do a great job of streamlining and leveraging processes, but are ignoring the quality and viability of the data flowing through these processes. Which makes for unsuccessful processes.Ronan Bradley seems to agree... Read More..

Let me make one thing perfectly clear: I may be a Joe, but I'm not Joe the Plumber. I know how to connect a garden hose or unclog a drain, but that's the limit of my plumbing skills.The other day,... Read More..

The airline business is about as lean and mean as a business can get (look at the size of those pretzel bags you get in coach), so it's interesting to see the uptake of SOA practices that has been going... Read More..