February 2009 Archives

The US Department of Defense (DoD) is perhaps the largest and most complex organization in the world, and it's getting into service oriented architecture -- in a big way. As Dennis Wisnosky chief technical officer of DoD's Business Mission Area... Read More..

In American culture, we worship the rebellious. This extends to business technology culture as well, where the likes of Steve Jobs, Carig Newmark and Sergey Brin are held up in esteem as rebels who went against the established order to... Read More..

I talked the other day about what a disruptive force the three dynamos -- SOA, cloud, and open source -- are introducing to the business technology marketplace. Expect to see major disruptions as this tripartite advances up the food chain.Well,... Read More..

Disruption is the watchword for SOA 2009.The high-margin SOA engagements that we've known -- involving armies of consultants, integrators and expensive proprietary solutions -- keep getting pushed upstream, into a smaller market space.What's happening is low-cost and no-cost solutions are... Read More..

In today's rough-and-tumble economy, there's a tendency for executives and managers to panic, and cut everything in sight. However, a well-crafted enterprise architecture effort that incoporates SOA, ITIL, and other long-term visionary approaches is an asset that needs to be... Read More..

ebizQ's Beth Gold-Bernstein came back from a recent hiatus and found a world turned upside down. That is, SOA, once the center of the enterprise, was alleged to be dead as a doornail. In her latest post, Beth looks at... Read More..

My colleague Peter Schooff just opened up a discussion forum here at ebizQ on "What are the primary reasons SOA fails?"I say many SOA failures -- and perhaps success stories for that matter -- may be illusory because there often... Read More..

Perhaps when you really think about the end-all and be-all purpose of service oriented architecture, it all boils down to one important thing: the need for scalability. Not scalability in the sense that we usually think about it - throwing... Read More..

Download fileThe following is a full transcript from ebizQ's recent podcast featuring Software AG's Miko Matsumura and myself.Joe McKendrick:  Hello everyone; thanks for listening into our podcast. This is Joe McKendrick, contributing analyst to ebizQ on all things SOA... Read More..

Okay, everyone is still buzzing about Anne Thomas Manes' declaration that "SOA is Dead." While that particular thought is still being hotly debated, there's been another tectonic shift taking place underneath the feet of enterprise and SOA architects. That is,... Read More..

"Someone told me there was a recession. I decided not to participate."-Sam WaltonebizQ colleague Brenda Michelson just posted excerpts from an interview with business author Jim Collins, who said downtimes are the best times for innovative and entrepreneurial companies. He... Read More..

Sandy Carter reports that AFLAC, the large Georgia-based insurer, is employing service-oriented architecture practices to bring new services online faster and better manage existing services to customers, shareholders, and employees.The Web has raised everyone's expectations about access and service delivery,... Read More..

Service oriented architecture has been doing a stellar job of addressing issues with siloed applications and automating business processes. However, to date, SOA has not been able to address issues with data, because SOA has been about applications.That's the take... Read More..

There are a lot of analogies that can be made between SOA and space flight. But don't worry, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to set SOA on its right course. I recently joined Software AG's Miko Matsumura... Read More..

The following is a full transcript from ebizQ's recent Webcast on SOA transformation, featuring Software AG's Miko Matsumura and Jignesh Shah, authors of SOA Adoption for Dummies, and myself.Joe McKendrick: Today's Webinar is titled "2009 SOA Adoption and Transformation"I'm pleased... Read More..

How can Web 2.0 and SOA help companies navigate through these tough times? Do these efforts provide the streamlining and agility required to navigate the rough-and-tumble economy? We're inviting readers to provide their insights, and share their own experiences.... Read More..