October 2009 Archives

We've just wrapped up the SOA in Action event, and all sessions will be available for archived viewing.I was pleased to have served as emcee and moderator of the conference, which is intended to help set the tone for the... Read More..

Pfizer, the pharma giant, is no stranger to SOA -- the company has had SOA efforts underway for more than four years now. Two years ago, I reported on a talk given by Martin Brodbeck, executive director for strategic architecture... Read More..

Back in early 2006, I published a piece on the impact of delivering SOA-ready services via online, on-demand venues such as online marketplaces. Here is an update on the piece, revised to meet today's cloud computing realities. Since I wrote... Read More..

Do you find "selling" SOA's value to the business is more difficult in today's economy, especially since ROI is often hard to quantify?  Are you wondering how SOA projects can derive the benefits of emerging technologies such as Complex Event... Read More..

Many of the issues in the SOA space have been the result of confusion about what, exactly, SOA is supposed to bring to the organization. There are several key values and principles that distinguish serious service orientation initiatives from those that... Read More..

I'm at this year's International SOA Symposium in Rotterdam, and the prevailing theme is "Next-Gen" SOA, in which we see service-orientation emerge from its bout with the skeptics to take a stronger role within the enterprise.Setting the stage for the... Read More..

From published authors to world-class thought leaders in the SOA and IT space -- we're going to have them all for you in one virtual space.We're just nine days away from what will be an informative two-day event, SOA in... Read More..

Sewer grates disappearing at an alarming rate from city streets... Sounds like a job for... SOA!In a new report, Jack Vaughan describes how the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission employed technology to track down missing sewer and storm drain covers.... Read More..

Is it ever too soon to get good SOA governance underway? Or will ad hoc tools do the trick until the real critical mass of services is established?That's the conundrum we're debating in this week's SOA Forum, and readers are... Read More..

The downturn of late 2008-2009 caught a lot of companies flat-footed, and many were left with painful choices, such as cutting staff, when business went south.However, some companies were able to see the handwriting on the wall, and throttle down... Read More..

When the federal government gets serious about digitizing its operations across the board, it's generally a good thing. However, for countless agencies with their own applications, it means some serious integration work ahead. Service oriented architecture can smooth the path... Read More..

Welcome to Service Oriented Architecture, Phase 2. It's bigger, It's badder, it's all business.  None of this namby-pamby JBOWs stuff. None of these SOAPY-REST tantrums. SOA is all grown up now, and it's time it starts earning the bacon --... Read More..

This past week, ebizQ analysts and commentators provided us a lot of introspective examination of the course of service oriented architecture -- what it is, how to achieve it, what it's becoming, and where it's going. Brenda Michelson probed into... Read More..