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 organizations. In her latest feature, Victoria Griggs said that an SOA service is, in effect, "a mini-product that must stand on its own as a well-understood and useful program, intelligible not only to the local development team, but also to software architects, data center engineers, and business analysts in other departments and divisions." She points out that this is having an enormous impact on IT jobs. "Each SOA developer must become coder, product manager, documentation specialist, and software architect, all rolled into one," Griggs says. . "Neglect any of these jobs, and the SOA service might fail as a mini-product. As with traditional software products, user frustrations and trouble tickets will likely result."
Janne Korhonen posted the first four installments of his four-part series on the essentials of organization and technology management. In the realm of strategy, he points out, "the prevailing metaphor of business as shipping (be it physical goods or marketing messages) is losing its viability. To meet the dramatically shortened business cycles, companies must reach out to each other and form networked ecosystems that pull together capabilities in a nonlinear fashion, eliminating time, distance and location." In governance, he explains how agile governance is an adaptable means for continual definition of requisite organizational roles, accountabilities and policies in congruence with the organization's role in the wider ecosystem. The next two topics include leadership and enterprise architecture.
Phil Wainewright talked about the contrasting cross-currents that he's been seeing for enterprise cloud aficionados and neophytes alike. There's some bullish predictions about the growth of cloud, but words of caution as well.
Michael Poulin critiqued an article written by Dr. Nitin Nayak and colleagues from IBM called "Core business architecture for a service-oriented enterprise," in which he observes that the article "is very good in describing, explaining and illustrating regular business service to external customers," but misses the major, fundamental 'brick' - "the concept of service orientation as the constructing means of the enterprise business and related Business Architecture."
Brenda Michelson posted a recent SOA Consortium discussion about the possibility that services being enabled via SOA principles and practices should be determined by and subject to market forces, be they from inside or outside the organization fostering them.
Finally, ebizQ 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 initiatives. The conference will help enterprises cut through the hype and focus on issues surrounding cloud computing, covering Infrastructure as a Services (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). This year's QCamp will also focus on development of Private Clouds in Enterprises.
We've also had some good discussion on the business and organizational transformation that SOA brings to organizations. In her latest feature, Victoria Griggs said that an SOA service is, in effect, "a mini-product that must stand on its own as a well-understood and useful program, intelligible not only to the local development team, but also to software architects, data center engineers, and business analysts in other departments and divisions." She points out that this is having an enormous impact on IT jobs. "Each SOA developer must become coder, product manager, documentation specialist, and software architect, all rolled into one," Griggs says. . "Neglect any of these jobs, and the SOA service might fail as a mini-product. As with traditional software products, user frustrations and trouble tickets will likely result."
Janne Korhonen posted the first four installments of his four-part series on the essentials of organization and technology management. In the realm of strategy, he points out, "the prevailing metaphor of business as shipping (be it physical goods or marketing messages) is losing its viability. To meet the dramatically shortened business cycles, companies must reach out to each other and form networked ecosystems that pull together capabilities in a nonlinear fashion, eliminating time, distance and location." In governance, he explains how agile governance is an adaptable means for continual definition of requisite organizational roles, accountabilities and policies in congruence with the organization's role in the wider ecosystem. The next two topics include leadership and enterprise architecture.
Phil Wainewright talked about the contrasting cross-currents that he's been seeing for enterprise cloud aficionados and neophytes alike. There's some bullish predictions about the growth of cloud, but words of caution as well.
Michael Poulin critiqued an article written by Dr. Nitin Nayak and colleagues from IBM called "Core business architecture for a service-oriented enterprise," in which he observes that the article "is very good in describing, explaining and illustrating regular business service to external customers," but misses the major, fundamental 'brick' - "the concept of service orientation as the constructing means of the enterprise business and related Business Architecture."
Brenda Michelson posted a recent SOA Consortium discussion about the possibility that services being enabled via SOA principles and practices should be determined by and subject to market forces, be they from inside or outside the organization fostering them.
Finally, ebizQ 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 initiatives. The conference will help enterprises cut through the hype and focus on issues surrounding cloud computing, covering Infrastructure as a Services (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). This year's QCamp will also focus on development of Private Clouds in Enterprises.
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