December 2006 Archives

The debate over ESB rages on -- is it a one-day fruit fly for tactical, get-it-out-ASAP service deployments, or are there long-term advantages to building SOA on an ESB backbone? Read More..

Some people accuse SOA of being a fairy tale, but there’s hope, no matter how ugly your technology is -- ask eBay, IBM, Wachovia Bank, HP, Amazon, Citigroup, OnStar, and DreamWorks. Read More..

Here are ten good reasons to go to SOA, cited by ten companies that began their journey down the SOA path in 2006. Read More..

Nothing screams 'silos' louder than a well-entrenched phone company that has been around for decades, and likely has business processes buried within hardwired systems. That's where SOA comes in. Read More..

A rise in rapid development of SOA-related projects can be attributed to a growing comfort with SOA methodologies, as well as a maturing of products and tools. Read More..

Service oriented architecture -- at least in its current incarnation -- has now been on the scene for a few years, and we're beginning to benefit from a growing base of experience in growing and managing these beasts. David Linthicum... Read More..

SOA enables rapid, model-driven approaches to BPM. As SOA increasingly supports BPM initiatives, it in turn evolves SOA from being just another IT project to one that truly involves the entire enterprise and delivers value in a real way. Read More..

The sweet spot where an ESB has shown its power and flexibility is in process-oriented, event driven architectures Read More..

Having a plain old Web service is not the same thing as an enterprise-grade, SOA-ready service. Enterprise SOA services should be automatically verifiable, and basic information can be collected and reported. Read More..

The tried-and-true IT management formulas that worked in the past may no longer work in SOA: In the SOA world, it's not so easy for an IT manager to know what's going on or what's going wrong Read More..

New Three-Year SOA Effort Takes off at Delta Airllines Read More..

Event Driven Architecture delivers the loose coupling that is only promised -- but not delivered -- by SOA Read More..

Business realignment is a tough part of SOA , but sorting through and standardizing technology also requires some hard work. Read More..

Business needs to be in the driver's seat of the SOA effort -- in too many SOA efforts these days, IT often is going it alone, a move that will only result in rudderless, siloed SOA projects Read More..

New survey report urges 'quality' approach to service deployments. Read More..

Many implementations have been either non-SOA or halfhearted SOA approaches that 'lead to custom integrations.' Read More..