Ronan Bradley's FinanceTech Directions: July 2006 Archives

Data: The heart of SOA

By Ronan Bradley on July 27, 2006 10:56 AM 3

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There has been a spate of customer success stories emerging over the last few weeks - one feature of these that is prominently highlighted is the focus on data. This should hardly be surprising given a major component of all... Read More..

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A collection of SOA chat: mysterious SOA adoption rates, Accenture's views on the SOA adoption road and the dancing dinosaurs of EAI

By Ronan Bradley on July 25, 2006 10:53 AM 0

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The discussions and news around SOA are clearly moving on from cool features towards tackling the nuts-and-bolts issues of how to get it done as can be seen from a few of the items that have appeared in the last... Read More..

Categories: Market trends, SOA Predictions

Wachovia and D.C. find success with SOA – along different paths

By Ronan Bradley on July 20, 2006 4:53 PM 0

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Within a couple of days of each other two very different organization starting to talk about the success they have achieved from moving to SOA: Wachovia, the 4th largest bank in the US and the District of Columbia. A couple... Read More..

Categories: Enterprise Service Bus, Financial Services, Government

Three principles for aligning your SOA strategy with business goals

By Ronan Bradley on July 17, 2006 7:56 PM 0

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One of the much touted benefits of SOA is that it aligns IT with the business – the concept of a misalignment between IT and business is one that I have always found puzzling: how much is just a cliché... Read More..

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SOA: One size fits all or different styles

By Ronan Bradley on July 13, 2006 3:23 PM 0

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SOA can appear overwhelming because as an architecture it is proposed as a solution to all integration challenges for every industry and for every scale and complexity of company. Clearly, the way SOA will be manifested in any given company... Read More..

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ESB rankings show convergence with BPM and highlights the benefits of configuration driven implementation

By Ronan Bradley on July 11, 2006 5:40 PM 0

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Forrester’s latest ESB study is already drawing the predictable press releases as each featured vendor promotes their own highlights. However, a more detailed reading reinforces a significant maturing of the products towards what I see as the eventual destination of... Read More..

Categories: Enterprise Service Bus

What SOA can learn from Web 2.0, Part III - Power to the (business) people?

By Ronan Bradley on July 6, 2006 3:41 PM 1

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Sometimes reading about Web2.0, the evangelicalism obscures what could be useful for the enterprise. No better example of this than the quote from David Girourard of Google who says: Enterprise software is entirely bereft of soul. It is designed for... Read More..

July 2006 Archives

Data: The heart of SOA

A collection of SOA chat: mysterious SOA adoption rates, Accenture's views on the SOA adoption road and the dancing dinosaurs of EAI

Wachovia and D.C. find success with SOA – along different paths

Three principles for aligning your SOA strategy with business goals

SOA: One size fits all or different styles

ESB rankings show convergence with BPM and highlights the benefits of configuration driven implementation

What SOA can learn from Web 2.0, Part III - Power to the (business) people?

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