June 2009 Archives

There's no question the rise of Enterprise 2.0 and SOA approaches have resulted in a significant reduction in paperwork. I'd love to see a study someday on how many trees and other natural resources have been spared due to new... Read More..

There's been talk about the role of SOA in "Green IT." In a new article, Vance McCarthy brings a new twist to the Green SOA story -- SOA is playing a key role in cleaning up pollution in San Francisco... Read More..

SOA is an architecture, and thus fulfills requirements across the business. However, in many cases, it remains an unknown venture -- even across IT organizations. In the latest issue of SOA Magazine, Tyson Brooks, PMP, urges SOA proponents to proactively... Read More..

There's been plenty of discussion lately about the cloud computing phenomenon, but rarely is the case made for bringing in SOA. And when SOA and cloud are mentioned in the same sentence, we seldom hear about their interactions or commonalities.... Read More..

For readers seeking information on open source SOA tools, Progress Software is hosting an informative Webcast on June 30th at 1:00 Eastern Time. Scott Cranton and Jack Britton, solution engineers at Progress' FUSE ESB project, will present all the details... Read More..

While the basic ideas of SOA governance map quite naturally to cloud governance, some important shifts in priority and technology need to take place before SOA governance can be effective in the cloud. In a new feature article posted at... Read More..

I've always considered Oracle's Dave Chappell a thought leader in advancing the case for SOA across complex environments, and his latest article on application grids didn't disappoint. As Dave points out, SOA adoption is outpacing Moore's Law, meaning that all... Read More..

ebizQ colleague Brenda Michelson has just informed me that the SOA Consortium, in conjunction with CIO Magazine, is once again holding it's annual SOA case study competition. The competition is open to organizations of all sizes, including government agencies, which... Read More..

If financial services companies had more advanced capabilities to process and analyze key events, they might have been able to head off many of the slips and slides that led to the financial crisis of 2008. Still, there are many... Read More..

The following is a full transcript from ebizQ's recent "2009 Event Processing Roundtable: Managing Events in an Eventful Year," featuring Brenda Michelson, principal with Elemental Links and also contributor here at ebizQ, David Olson, director of CEP product marketing for... Read More..

I've been meaning to round up what was another spectacular run of bursts of brilliance here at the ebizQ site around SOA and things closely associated with SOA. ebizQ contibutor James Taylor, for one, blogged on the trend toward user-developed... Read More..

I just wrapped up the keynote address for ebizQ's latest Cloud QCamp. exploring the growing convergence of SOA with cloud computing, Enterprise 2.0 and virtualization. Listen to the Webcast here. David Bressler of Progress Software joined me in the second... Read More..