September 2009 Archives

A few years back, a group of vendors put forth the first SOA Maturity Model, based on Carnegie-Mellon Software Engineering Institute's process improvement methodology called Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI). The SOA Maturity Model takes us from Level 1, "an... Read More..

In a new article out of American Banker, Steve Bills discusses how service oriented architecture initiatives at the two biggest banks -- Bank of America and Citigroup -- have overcome the limitations of legacy systems.At Citigroup, Steve describes how the... Read More..

Remember the rock cult movie, This is Spinal Tap, which came out back in 1984? Well, Spinal Tap, the "world's loudest band" is still together, and, we're pleased to learn, has adopted service oriented architecture. Kim Nash reports in Network... Read More..

We've gotten some great responses to Peter Schooff's challenge to explain to your CEO, in the course of an elevator ride, why he/she should go along with that big SOA budget request.Marc Rix, inspired by the discussion, came up with... Read More..

As discussed many times here at "SOA in Action" and across ebizQ, service oriented architecture holds great promise for providing enterprise services that provide a "single view of the customer." The service may be configured to pull data from pre-selected... Read More..

ebizQ colleague Brenda Michelson has posted details on the top case studies selected by SOA Consortium and CIO Magazine. Here is a summation of four shining examples.Top honors went to Cisco Systems, which apparently is doing a great job of... Read More..

Moving to cloud computing raises a lot of issues, but if a company is already engaged in service oriented architecture, things go a lot smoother. Mike Kavis, CTO of M-Dot, sat down with my ebizQ partner-in-crime, Peter Schooff, in a... Read More..

It's been another eventful week on the SOA front, and the ebizQ site has been packed with the latest news and perspectives on service oriented architecture. There's been plenty of SOA action in San Antonio this week. Brenda Michelson provides... Read More..

Who says IT and business are out of alignment?IBM has just released the results of a new global study of more than 2,500 CIOs that demonstrates how well attuned today's CIOs are becoming to the innovation and analytic needs of... Read More..

Service oriented architecture has reached a certain level of maturity, and with this growth, proponents are recognizing that more attention needs to be given to the data the SOA is supposed to support. That's the theme surfaced this past week... Read More..

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Randy Heffner, VP and analyst with Forrester Research. Randy, a leading expert on SOA issues, will be keynoting ebizQ's upcoming SOA in Action conference. Listen to or download the 11:54 podcast... Read More..

The following is a transcript of a recent podcast interview of Randy Heffner, VP and analyst with Forrester Research, with Joe McKendrick, contributing analyst with ebizQ.Listen to or download the 11:54 podcast below: Download file Joe McKendrick:    Hello, this is... Read More..

It's been another busy week in the world of service oriented architecture, and a lot of good thought leadership has been surfacing on the pages of ebizQ. There's even a solution to the healthcare crisis.Shamlan Siddiqi, director with Keane, suggests that... Read More..

"Mainframe as a Cloud Machine" is the name of a study just released by WinterGreen Research, which, as the name suggests, examines the prospects of mainframe computers for the emerging cloud era. And, in the process, connects the dots between... Read More..