December 2009 Archives

How closely are SOA governance and project management coming together? Should the enterprise's Project Management Office (PMO) get involved in governing SOA and enterprise architecture in general? Is SOA governance essentially a project to be managed like others? Are there... Read More..

Predictions of the collapse of service oriented architecture endeavors in the recent economic slump did not pan out -- companies remained committed to moving forward with SOA. Now, with a recovery shaping up, SOA may play a key role in... Read More..

The following is the full transcript of the roundtable discussion held between Miko Matsumura, vice president and deputy chief technology officer for Software AG, John Favazza, vice president of research and development for WebLayers, Inc., and myself at ebizQ's SOA... Read More..

There's been a lot of talk in recent years about the need for great architecture to make great SOA. Along these lines, Michael Poulin reminds us that architects aren't such bad guys, they are here to change, create, and, of... Read More..

This is the second batch of SOA use stories, culled from the pages of SOA in Action from the year 2009. (The first seven were posted in my previous post.) This year, we saw SOA playing a leading role in... Read More..

There was a lot going on in the SOA space during the year 2009 -- many organizations were in the midst of finding new ways to service-orient their operations. Here are some of the actual business cases published here in... Read More..

My colleague Peter Schooff posted a great question for this week's Sound-off Forum on "What Do You Think Will be the Biggest Trend or Development for SOA in 2010?" I urge everyone to join in on the discussion and post... Read More..

This week, as our SOA feature, we ran a piece from WebLayer's Chandu Natarajan, who makes the startling claim that good service governance doesn't necessarily require a sophisticated registry and repository tool. What do you think of that?  The premise... Read More..

We all know return on investment is important. But how do we know when we're seeing ROI from service implementations?  And how do we know if this ROI is relevant to the overall performance of the business?  Remember, those engines... Read More..

If you're an SOA advocate in your organization, what would you like to find in your stocking this year for the holidays? Here's a wish list that would warm the hearts of SOA proponents across the land:1) A holiday miracle:... Read More..

Security has long been considered the Achilles' Heel of service oriented architecture, particularly with SOA increasingly reaching beyond enterprise walls as the underpinning of cloud formations. This is key, since both SOA and cloud rely on trust. If the trust... Read More..

Gartner's Application Architecture, Development and Integration Summit topped the SOA news this week, and ebizQ was all over the story.  ebizQ Jessica Ann Mola talked to vendors on the scene, and provides details on new announcements from SOA Software about... Read More..

Lately, there's been plenty of discussion among the chattering classes (myself included) how the things we've learned and developed for SOA governance should and could be readily applied to cloud services. Tarak Modi, in fact, recently discussed the critical need... Read More..

One of the aspects of both service oriented architecture and cloud architecture that people seem to overlook is the fact that companies -- and even individuals -- will be both producers and consumers of enterprise services. The line between service... Read More..

Are we entering an era in which entire businesses can be run from the cloud? At ebizQ's recent SOA in Action conference, Mike Kavis, CTO of M-Dot Network, which supports processing of digital coupons for retailers, described how his company... Read More..