October 2010 Archives

Which type of company has a greater advantage in its market -- one with a well-engaged enterprise architecture team, or one that relegates its EA to handling compliance and administration?In case you haven't guessed, those that put EA at the... Read More..

The US government has embraced enterprise architecture principles in a big way to better manage its sprawling IT resources. A recent example that has just surfaced is a US Air Force unit, which adopted an enterprise modeling tool as part... Read More..

Chris Weitz of Deloitte Consulting just posted a great piece here on the ebizQ pages on "Cloud computing in the post-recession landscape." He observes that while we may be pulling out the recent economic slump, but companies are going to... Read More..

The Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN), in cooperation with the BIAN Analytics working group, just issued two service specifications intended to promote banks' acceleration of the replacement of inflexible analytical systems with solutions based on a more flexible service-oriented architecture-based... Read More..

There's been a lot of debate and discussion going on across the ebizQ-o-sphere in recent days.Dave Linthicum examined the real meaning of "services," outlining four points about what makes and doesn't make a service. In his first point, for example,... Read More..

We just got news about the launch of FuseSource Corporation, formed out of the open-source Fuse offerings within the Progress Software line. FuseSource remains a subsidiary of Progress. The Fuse lineup -- which include Fuse ESB, Fuse Message Broker, Fuse... Read More..

ADAM Audio GmbH, a manufacturer and developer of speakers for professional and home use, says it is it putting an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system built upon SOA tools and methodologies to solve three main challenges: calculate accurate delivery dates;... Read More..

Crocs were all the rage in recent times, and for a while, my personal fashion barometers -- my daughters -- would not leave the house without their Crocs on. Now, it's fun (at least for me) to find out that... Read More..

SOA has matured to its next level, but is still being held back by misconceptions. There's a number of fables that have grown up around SOA, and at the same time, there are some stock objections that really make no... Read More..

SOA governance shouldn't be a humdrum, overbearing affair. There are many cases of governance bodies that try to exert too much control, thereby turning off any efforts to participate in service oriented architecture.Instead, SOA governance should be a highly open... Read More..

SOA and cloud computing are joined at the hip, and the best practices of one are the same that should be applied to the other. That's the point raised by David Linthicum, CTO at Bick Group, noted author, and fellow... Read More..

Many new insights came out of ebizQ/TechTarget's latest SOA & Application Integration conference, held last week. Randy Heffner, analyst with Forrester and a long-time SOA proponent, kicked off the event with a proposal for a new way of expanding the... Read More..