December 2010 Archives

Does anybody remember the 1980s?  Aside from the Thompson Twins, Marty McFly, and Gordon Gekko, it was an era when entire domestic industries were going down the tubes. Steel, textiles, and autos were shutting down plants faster than a 286... Read More..

As we wrap up another year, and look forward to 2011, our stable of experts has been looking at the challenges and opportunities of service oriented architecture from many angles.  One thing is certain: while no longer riding the hype... Read More..

Among today's "Stocks to Watch" list is a company called Evergreen Energy Inc., a cleaner coal technology, energy production and environmental solutions company focused on developing technologies. Among Evergreen Energy's strengths, as observed by the analyst who compiled the report, is... Read More..

Service oriented architecture touches a lot of aspects of IT and business management, including enterprise architecture, cloud, data management, IT management, data center operations, business process management, and event processing, to name a few. Some of these applications of... Read More..

The year 2010 was certainly a turning point for service oriented architecture, especially  since it has moved out of the IT experimentation phase and into the practical business phase. During this time, we've sought to bring examples of SOA in... Read More..

Ann All reports that Wells Fargo Bank, which has seen an explosion on mobile adoption both inside and outside, has been able to leverage its service-oriented middleware to keep the channels open. Ann spoke at length with CIO George Tumas,... Read More..

A new survey of 140 IT professionals finds that virtualization is the strategy of choice for the year ahead. The survey, conducted by AppDynamics, an application performance management vendor, suggests that a majority of companies are moving full bore into... Read More..

A recent survey from Forrester finds eight out of ten financial services firms use SOA approaches today. Plus, they want more service orientation in their business systems, delivered at a faster pace. A team of Forrester analysts, Jost Hoppermann, Mike... Read More..

At his ZDNet blogsite, Dana Gardner spoke with Abe Naguib, director of global performance architecture and infrastructure engineering at AIG-Chartis, and how his business has benefited from ongoing and modernization projects through the innovative use of IT consolidation and application... Read More..

For some companies, the structure of the US government provides a good model for governing service oriented architecture.I recently had the opportunity to chat with Vladimir Mitevski, vice president product management core services at Thomson Reuters, about his company's approach... Read More..

The Open Group has released the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Ontology Technical Standard, intended to define the concepts, terms and semantics of SOA in a common language that will allow for more precise and straightforward communications and facilitate SOA adoption... Read More..

David Sprott of CBDI Forum recently critiqued one company's SOA standards document, observing that the standards didn't go far enough in setting a minimum set of standards. This may be symptomatic of many SOA efforts, which tend to be fragmented... Read More..