August 2009 Archives

In just a couple of months, we are pleased to be hosting an online, two-day event that will welcome you to Service-Oriented Architecture, Phase Two.In a previous post, we explored the lineup for Day 1 of the conference (October 28),... Read More..

"Is cloud SOA done right?" That's the question Phil Wainewright -- who has been tracking developments in this space since launching LooselyCoupled.com almost a decade ago -- put out to panelists at ebizQ's Cloud QCamp held earlier this summer. And,... Read More..

The following is a full transcript from the session on "Challenges and Opportunities in SOA and Cloud:  Lessons Learned", part of ebizQ's Cloud QCamp. This session featured Phil Wainewright, well-known industry guru and ebizQ's Connected Web manager, who was joined... Read More..

In just a couple of months, we are pleased to be hosting an online, two-day event that will welcome you to Service-Oriented Architecture, Phase Two. Six years after SOA first hit the mainstream, many organizations have achieved strong value, while... Read More..

One of the things that holds back companies and developers from engaging with cloud resources is simply the fact that the cloud represents the unknown. However, once you get past that, there's another pressing issue that companies moving into the... Read More..

The following is a full transcript from the session on "How the Cloud Changes the Way Applications are Developed," part of ebizQ's Cloud QCamp. This session featured Phil Wainewright, well-known industry guru and ebizQ's Connected Web manager, and his guest... Read More..

Okay, after the white-knuckle ride we've had over the past year with the economy, things are starting to look better and better. Even Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is smiling a lot more these days. Eternal doomsayer NYU Professor Noriel Roubini... Read More..

Forrester has made it official: Complex Event Processing is now a vibrant market category in its own right. According to a report in DestinationCRM, the consultancy says heavy demand drove it to issue a report on the state of the... Read More..

This past week at ebizQ was a busy one SOA-wise, with experts dissecting the issues leading to SOA worst practices, the new mode of application development that is arising, the role of a newly emerging professional, the business architect, and... Read More..

A couple of weeks back, we speculated here at this blogsite about the possibilities of an IT "Cash for Clunkers" -- why shouldn't the federal government launch a program in which companies would get a cash credit if they traded... Read More..

Many organizations -- often prodded by vendors -- are setting out with the intentions of building out service oriented architectures, in hopes of cutting their development times and increasing business agility. But SOA doesn't come in a neat package. As... Read More..

An article in ScienceDaily reports that tools developed by SUPER, a European research project, is helping business users apply service oriented architecture to help boost the application of business process management (BPM) approaches to business problems.The challenge that searching out... Read More..

My thoughts on this topic first appeared here a couple of years back, but they are worth repeating, especially at a time when there are calls to bring SOA out of the IT world and help it deliver all that... Read More..

This week, ebizQ colleague Peter Schooff spoke with ZapThink's Jason Bloomberg about the whole "SOA is Dead" issue and the need for architecture. Jason notes that "there's a lot of misunderstanding about SOA and there's this misconception that SOA is... Read More..