January 2007 Archives

The 'ERP approach' allowed people to showcase systems and say 'wasn’t our money well spent?' An incremental and bottom up SOA approach just doesn’t allow management with those showcasing opportunities Read More..

Are we replacing legacy stovepipes with SOA stovepipes? Mike Reed, managing partner with EWSolutions, warns that many of the 'service-oriented architectures' he's seen more closely resemble the legacy stovepipes they were supposed to replace. "An old phenomenon is reappearing in... Read More..

Good bye client/server, hello to what, exactly? Read More..

Did you know that projects created primarily from reused software experience only about 1/3 the defect density of those that are new? Or that projects created primarily from reused software take about 1/4 the time and resources of those that... Read More..

Sandy Carter, vice president of IBM in charge of everything SOA, recently provided a series of tips for approaching the CEO about an SOA project. Here are a few key pointers: Don't call it 'SOA': "Explain the value and benefits... Read More..

Let's face it: the business doesn't have a clue about SOA. Surveys tell us that all the time. But SOA is supposed to be led by the business. Is there anyone out there in the enterprise who can break this... Read More..

If you are still stuck with JBOWS, or Just a Bunch of Web Services, don't despair -- JBOWS can be a good start towards a SOA. Just know, you're not there yet. Read More..

How far along are we in the SOA-BPM dance? In a new blog post, Mike Stevens cuts right to the chase, and does a good job of summing up the opportunities and challenges arising at the intersection of these two... Read More..

As compliance became an necessary part of documenting IT operations, it created a flurry of new paperwork requirements. Lately, some companies have begun building SOA and Web services solutions to remove the new paperwork burden being placed upon them. For... Read More..

$5.5 Billion on SOA consultants -- funds that could be better spent elsewhere. Read More..

SOA enters the mainstream in 2007, with a trail of FUD alongside it. Read More..

The free markets of economics and business services have a lot in common -- both unleash the power of innovation and drive progress, but need some measure of oversight to keep things from getting out of hand. Read More..

Don't expect cost containment anytime soon with an SOA deployment. Read More..

My ebizQ colleague Elizabeth Book just made it official: ebizQ will be launching a new virtual conference in March, called "BPM in Action." The conference will be in the same spirit of the recent SOA in Action conference, launched in... Read More..

SOa is an architecture -- not a system. Just look at how McDonald's does things. Read More..

Building SOA calls for fresh thinking on many levels, often at odds with tried-and-true, familiar IT approaches -- the successes of SOA often will not immediately be seen and felt by the business; and applications should not be built for the ages. Read More..