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Is 'Service-Oriented Approach' a Better Way to Define SOA?

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By Joe McKendrick on March 10, 2010 11:16 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Living in the northeastern US, we saw more (way more) than our fair share of snow this winter -- though it provided great opportunities for cross-country skiing. It's amazing that with all the snow there has been, there is no... Read More..
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'Citizen Developers' and the New IT: Managing the Mashup

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By Joe McKendrick on March 8, 2010 5:39 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Attend any technology conference or read any trade journal or analyst report, and it won't be long before you hear about the lack of "business-IT alignment" that hampers software and systems implementations. The IT department can't figure out what the... Read More..
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SOA Needs to Support Industrial-Strength Processing

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By Joe McKendrick on March 8, 2010 5:07 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Have service-oriented applications added to the complexity of heavy-duty manufacturing, managing, monitoring, and processing transactions flowing between production centers and distribution networks and control centers? David Mavashev, writing in IndustryWeek, says yes, and it's time for more real-time transaction monitoring.... Read More..
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Healthcare's Ailing IT: SOA to the Rescue?

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By Joe McKendrick on March 8, 2010 9:57 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Healthcare is an area just crying out for better IT.  First of all, healthcare establishments are awash in data that needs to be properly managed in accordance with very strict mandates. Take HIPAA, for example. Medical records need to be... Read More..
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Avoid Big Software Glitches, Learn from the Experiences of Others

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By Joe McKendrick on March 4, 2010 9:54 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
We know that in the SOA space, a lack of governance and effective management can lead to rogue services bringing down a system, and even compromising the business.SOA implementations themselves often get called into question, especially when a lot of... Read More..
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SOA Roundup: Platforms, Intangibles, and End-Users

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By Joe McKendrick on February 28, 2010 11:40 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
In many ways, cloud computing and SOA are one in the same, or intersect to cover much of the same ground. Dave Linthicum drives this point home, providing evidence that cloud computing is resurrecting interest in SOA. As Dave so... Read More..
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SOA Data Integration Community Launched

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By Joe McKendrick on February 24, 2010 9:47 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Wanted: advocates who can bridge the chasm between the SOA and data worlds.Since it came about in its current form in the early-to-mid 2000s, service-orientation (mainly focused on applications) has existed in a separate world from data management. Problem is,... Read More..
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Podcast: Business Value 'Pays the Rent' of SOA

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By Joe McKendrick on February 24, 2010 8:13 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Over the past decade, there's been a push and pull between more technically inclined SOA proponents who worry about tools and platforms, and more business-oriented proponents who worry whether SOA is doing enough to advance profitability and market growth.Both side... Read More..
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Transcript: SOA Manifesto, with Paul Brown, Tibco

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By Joe McKendrick on February 23, 2010 11:05 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
The following is the full transcript of a discussion between Paul Brown, principle software architect at Tibco Software, and Jessica Ann Mola, managing editor of ebizQ, about some key takeaways from the SOA Manifesto.(Listen to the podcast here.)Jessica Ann Mola: ... Read More..
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Podcast: How the SOA Manifesto Validates Service-Oriented Values

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By Joe McKendrick on February 19, 2010 6:35 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
For years now, companies and their IT department have been building and deploying service after service after service. Service oriented architecture is the way to pull all these services into an orchestrated, well-governed framework that can be easily configured by... Read More..
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