September 2006 Archives

What's Web 2.0 have that SOA doesn't? Judith Hurwitz recently weighed in on the Web 2.0 phenomenon, observing that it has some of the echoes of the recent dot-com era: "...there were problems. First, most of the companies entering the... Read More..

In the SOA world, are 'services' interchangeable with 'applications'? In a new post, Dave Linthicum cautions that there is often confusion about what constitutes a 'service' versus a full-fledged SOA-enabled 'application.' "Services are not applications. They are small parts of... Read More..

"IT architects in the SOA world still have no idea what BPM is, and they still don’t know what they don’t know. Process owners on the business side don’t really know what SOA is, although they’ve heard it’s good. They... Read More..

An SOA effort can bring about a "virtuous circle" of service development and reuse that can lead to impressive ROI. I recently had the opportunity to speak with David O'Connell, senior analyst at Nucleus Research. O'Connell had just authored a... Read More..

ZapThink's Jason Bloomberg uses "high performance" and "SOA" in the same sentence Read More..

By now, I'm sure many readers have seen the latest line of Apple television/video commercials: the cool, laid-back, relaxed "Mac" guy standing alongside the uptight, somewhat nerdish "PC" guy. The PC guy, Woody-Allenish, is neurotic and full of issues, and... Read More..

There's been some talk across the industry lately that SOA could usurp the functions of enterprise resource planning systems. Rich Colton, application integration manager with Washington Group International, doesn't necessarily agree that SOA will vanquish ERP. Nevertheless, his company is... Read More..

What is the best predictor of SOA success? Most SOA success stories to date have a common demoninator, in that they have a robust and disciplined governance framework in place. The enterprise knows what it wants and what to expect... Read More..

What do SOA and enterprise data warehouse have in common? As it turns out, lots. They serve the same purposes, require the same type of governance structure, deliver the same kind of ROI. Most importantly, they need each other. Consider... Read More..

"We are taking our technology investment and re-engineering customer-related services as a set of Web services. We have smashed large monolithic applications into smaller components. Componentizing all our available product sets is a big and ongoing job, and has changed... Read More..

In a new ebizQ Webinar, Jorge Mercado, lead architect of the software architecture group for the MedicAlert Foundation, talked about the challenges and benefits behind his organization’s successful SOA deployment. (Available here from ebizQ.) MedicAlert, which currently has 30 services... Read More..

I've been ruminating over the results of a recent InformationWeek survey, which the publication entitled "The Dark Side of SOA." I'm not sure where the gloomy title came from, since the survey seems to generally point to some pretty bright... Read More..

One of the things I want to accomplish with this blog is, as the title suggests, is bring you accounts of "SOA in action" -- to look beyond the bits and bytes and see how and where organizations are putting... Read More..

Lately, there's been a lot of consternation across the industry questioning the whole "reuse" paradigm around SOA. The greatest value in SOA -- at least in the early phases -- comes from the ability to 'write once, deploy often.' Business... Read More..

Can SOA testing be made more intuitive? ebizQ colleague Brenda Michelson recently posted some interesting observations on progress being made on this front. As with all complex undertakings, visual representation is the best path for efficiency and understanding the relationships... Read More..

When it comes to service-oriented architecture, the prevailing assumption is that IT will be talking and working in synch with the rest of the business. However, IT tends to be a pretty diverse group in and of itself -- will... Read More..

Does "reuse" bring value to enterprises? Does Java EE have a future in SOA? Is SOA in danger of being swept away by the "Web 2.0" paradigm? Over the past few months, there has been a lot of heated discussion... Read More..

This is a new era for service-oriented architecture. Companies are moving from the learning and pilot stages to actual functioning implementations. Real money is being invested, and real problems are being addressed. How far can we go with service-oriented architecture?... Read More..