http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/ SOA in Action Blog en Copyright 2010 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:32:53 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.21-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2010/02/event_processing_same_thing_lo.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2010/02/event_processing_same_thing_lo.php Event Processing Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:32:53 -0500 joemckendrick 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2010/02/intercontinental_hotels_soa_ra.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2010/02/intercontinental_hotels_soa_ra.php Case Study Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:06:31 -0500 joemckendrick 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2010/02/soa_roundup_more_web_oriented.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2010/02/soa_roundup_more_web_oriented.php SOA Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:57:52 -0500 joemckendrick 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,... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2010/01/design-time_governance_lost_in.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2010/01/design-time_governance_lost_in.php SOA Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:04:24 -0500 joemckendrick 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2010/01/soa_for_the_defense.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2010/01/soa_for_the_defense.php Case Study Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:05:31 -0500 joemckendrick 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2010/01/mysoa_a_new_way_to_look_at_ser.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2010/01/mysoa_a_new_way_to_look_at_ser.php SOA Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:48:36 -0500 joemckendrick 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2010/01/steves_business_model_soa_as_t.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2010/01/steves_business_model_soa_as_t.php SOA Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:25:39 -0500 joemckendrick 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2010/01/jobs_with_soa_skills_second_hi.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2010/01/jobs_with_soa_skills_second_hi.php SOA Research and Analyst Reports Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:30:39 -0500 joemckendrick 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2010/01/soa_roundup_mastering_master_d.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2010/01/soa_roundup_mastering_master_d.php Business Process Management Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:43:14 -0500 joemckendrick 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2010/01/soas_seven_greatest_mysteries.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2010/01/soas_seven_greatest_mysteries.php SOA Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:33:28 -0500 joemckendrick 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2010/01/cigna.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2010/01/cigna.php Case Study Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:20:26 -0500 joemckendrick 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2010/01/soa_roundup_1-17-2010.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2010/01/soa_roundup_1-17-2010.php Business Process Management Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:09:08 -0500 joemckendrick 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2010/01/second_annual_soa-cloud_qcamp.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2010/01/second_annual_soa-cloud_qcamp.php Cloud computing Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:34:48 -0500 joemckendrick 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2010/01/report_from_the_2nd_internatio.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2010/01/report_from_the_2nd_internatio.php SOA Events Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:22:05 -0500 joemckendrick 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2010/01/the_service_maerketplace.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2010/01/the_service_maerketplace.php Management Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:02:22 -0500 joemckendrick