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SOA: Time to wake up and smell the data

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By Ronan Bradley on December 4, 2008 5:31 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
The line is taken from a report by Madan Sheina entitled "Realising the promise of SOA and BPM" (Madan is also speaking on a related ebizq webinar ). I am quoting it because it strongly arguing a point that I... Read More..
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SOA versus WOA: not a holy war – its just horses for courses

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By Ronan Bradley on September 11, 2008 8:28 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes
The war has broken out again between proponents of a Web Oriented Architecture (WOA) and SOA. I say war has broken out but really the vast majority of the fighting is coming from the WOA community. Frankly, I find much... Read More..
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Insurance's SOA priorities

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By Ronan Bradley on March 12, 2008 7:22 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
Different industries have different priorities and adopt SOA in different ways. Ilog has just announced that their rules product, JRules is being used in Hiscox (a major insurance company which focuses on specialist and hence more complex insurance products). By... Read More..
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Mash-ups: The new frontier for governance

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By Ronan Bradley on March 5, 2008 4:53 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes
Mash-ups are one of the hot areas for trialing in 2008 and a likely major project area in 2008, 2009 and beyond. The concept is appealing to business users and allows rapid development of useful applications. As I have previously... Read More..
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Rich Internet Applications and SOA: Too many choices?

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By Ronan Bradley on February 26, 2008 12:40 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
Faced by the uphill struggle of justifying SOA to business managers who find the benefits of SOA hard to understand let alone quantify, it is tempting to link it to other areas of technology innovation which are (we hope) easier... Read More..
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Happy Birthday OSI and XML

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By Ronan Bradley on February 12, 2008 7:20 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
As the title of this blog is "Roads to SOA" (for the moment at least), I though it was worth noting two anniversaries which relate to two of the most significant factors in the implementation of SOA: The Open Source... Read More..
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The Role of Events in SOA

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By Ronan Bradley on February 27, 2007 11:56 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes
Reading Joe McKendriks’s blog piece on “Is EDA the ‘new’ SOA� got me thinking again about how EDA and SOA fit together. Event Driven Architectures (EDA) is sometimes held up as an alternative to SOA. While this may be theoretically... Read More..
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Do Enterprise Service Buses undermine SOA?

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By Ronan Bradley on January 9, 2007 5:38 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
My post before Christmas sparked an excellent thread on the SOA Yahoo! Group around whether an Enterprise Service Bus was really a “keystone product in a SOA strategy� as I claimed . What the discussion highlighted for me was the... Read More..
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Service Oriented or Shared Service Oriented?

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By Ronan Bradley on November 22, 2006 7:31 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
The gap has been clear for a while between the SOA aspiration of “aligning technology with business� and the reality that surveys and personal experiences reflect: SOA is proving remarkably difficult to justify to the business community. You can talk... Read More..
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Sound SOA advice from the 1960s

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By Ronan Bradley on October 12, 2006 1:36 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
I was forwarded an excellent article written by Kevin Kelly, now of Kemar Solutions, from a new book called Secrets of SOA. Kevin worked for the Irish national airline in the 1960s on a project that with hindsight he believes... Read More..
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