February 2010 Archives

In many ways, cloud computing and SOA are one in the same, or intersect to cover much of the same ground. Dave Linthicum drives this point home, providing evidence that cloud computing is resurrecting interest in SOA. As Dave so... Read More..

Wanted: advocates who can bridge the chasm between the SOA and data worlds.Since it came about in its current form in the early-to-mid 2000s, service-orientation (mainly focused on applications) has existed in a separate world from data management. Problem is,... Read More..

Over the past decade, there's been a push and pull between more technically inclined SOA proponents who worry about tools and platforms, and more business-oriented proponents who worry whether SOA is doing enough to advance profitability and market growth.Both side... Read More..

The following is the full transcript of a discussion between Paul Brown, principle software architect at Tibco Software, and Jessica Ann Mola, managing editor of ebizQ, about some key takeaways from the SOA Manifesto.(Listen to the podcast here.)Jessica Ann Mola: ... Read More..

For years now, companies and their IT department have been building and deploying service after service after service. Service oriented architecture is the way to pull all these services into an orchestrated, well-governed framework that can be easily configured by... Read More..

The following is the full transcript of a discussion between Ali Arsanjani, distinguished engineer with IBM Global Business Services and is CTO for SOA and emerging technologies at IBM, and Jessica Ann Mola, Managing Editor of ebizQ about some key... Read More..

There's a lot of pressure on pharmaceutical manufacturers to be able to track and authenticate the movement of drug products through the supply chain. In California, it's likely that this will become law by 2015. Writing in Pharmtech, John Danese... Read More..

When service oriented architecture first hit the enterprise mainstream a few years back, most shops focused heavily on the technical aspects of standards, tools, and making it work. However, the recent recession knocked some sense into companies and SOA proponents,... Read More..

The following is the full transcript of a discussion between Steve Ross-Talbot and myself about some key takeaways from the SOA Manifesto, particularly the first core value, "business value over technical strategy."(Listen to the podcast here.) Joe McKendrick: Hello, this... Read More..

This past week, ebizQ has been packed full of observation and insights on the state of service orientation and SOA as they relate to business success. First, there's the whole convergence with cloud -- which is the delivery platform for... Read More..

Complex Event Processing, or CEP, takes event processing to a whole new level -- but it is not something to be undertaken by the untrained. Roy Schulte, distinguished analyst with Gartner, points out that "architects and developers who are building... Read More..

In recent years, there has been a strong movement to people taking their healthcare into their own hands -- making informed decisions to meet their own requirements versus relying solely on physicians, and making proactive lifestyle choices to prevent or... Read More..

What is the difference between a business transaction and an event?It depends on your perspective, but there really is no difference, according to Roy Schulte, distinguished analyst for Gartner. "An entire business process instance may be known to a BPM... Read More..

The deployment of cloud-based customer service contact centers, based on SOA standards, enables a leading hotel chain to maintain consistency and scale.Blair Pleasant recently sat in on the Customer Innovation Awards presentation at the most recent Genesys/Alcatel Lucent Enterprise Application... Read More..

The future belongs to WOA, or Web oriented architecture. So it's time to start moving service-oriented technology initiatives in this direction, or get left behind. That's the call from Matt Heinrichs, who just published a feature on the rise of... Read More..