January 2010 Archives

Just when the dust seems to have settled from the whole "SOA is Dead" kerfuffle, our own Dave Linthicum throws more cold water on the SOA/cloud party -- with a proclamation that "Design-time Governance is Dead."  (Well, not dead yet,... Read More..

I met Dennis Wisnosky, the business mission area chief technical officer and chief architect at the Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer at the US Department of Defense, at last year's SOA Symposium. Along with incredible charity work, he... Read More..

There continues to be plenty of questions, and healthy skepticism, out there in trenches about what SOA can and should do for the business. In an interesting new post, William El Kaim talks about a new way to look at... Read More..

With all the new excitement swirling around Steve Jobs' and company's latest entry into the market, the iPad, perhaps its time to sit back and think about Steve's business model as it relates to the way we acquire services and... Read More..

I recently had the opportunity to speak with Tom Silver, Senior Vice President, North America at career site Dice.com, about the results of a compelling new IT salary survey the company just published. The survey, based on the input of... Read More..

Service oriented architecture touches many other information technology-related and management initiatives across the enterprise, and we're seeing examples being discussed right here at ebizQ.Marty Moseley, for one, says Master Data Management -- through a Master Data Service (MDS) -- can... Read More..

Last fall, a group of us set about to better define the true meaning of service orientation and SOA, and the result was the SOA Manifesto.The hope is that the Manifesto will help provide clarity to SOA. However, there's a... Read More..

A couple of weeks back, we talked about MassMutual's SOA implementation, reported on by John Webster in Computerworld. Webster also documented how another insurer, Cigna Corp., was able to achieve reuse of applications and data as it built out its... Read More..

The new year may be young, but there's been plenty of action taking place on the SOA front, as documented here at the ebizQ site.We've also had some good discussion on the business and organizational transformation that SOA brings to... Read More..

ebizQ has announced its second annual Cloud QCamp, a virtual event scheduled on April 7th. We will be bringing together leading industry experts and practitioners explored the role of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) in supporting cloud-computing... Read More..

Over at the latest issue of SOA Magazine, I provide a summary of the happenings at the recent 2nd International SOA Symposium, held in Rotterdam last October.I was half-tempted to open the article with the phrase "It was the best... Read More..

I want to surface one of ebizQ colleague Brenda Michelson's most recent posts because I think the ideas she raises are powerful.That is, she relates a discussion point from the SOA Consortium group that services being enabled via SOA principles... Read More..

Since the beginning of the year, there has been a spate of acquisitions by companies either in the SOA space, BPM space, Enterprise 2.0 space, or other IT management areas.  Consider just a few of the acquisitions have been announced... Read More..

In the late 1990s, much of my work was focused on the so-called emerging "Web-to-host" market, in which mainframe UIs were either converted to HTML code, or surfaced as Java applets (still maintaining the "green screen" look), and made accessible... Read More..

Railroads are intensive operations, requiring the heavy-duty scheduling of loads and trains to maximize efficiency and cut fuel costs. Lately, the railroad industry has been undergoing a resurgence, as shippers realize that trains provide the most cost-effective ways to get... Read More..

"SOA is dead" was the catch-phrase of 2009. Will "SOA is inevitable" be the rallying cry of 2010?As organizations kick back into growth mode, they will find that service orientation is the only way to effectively manage their growth. And... Read More..