February 2007 Archives

Is EDA the next SOA? No. Read More..

Remember back in the dot-com days when everyone was predicting how "clicks would replace bricks"? Everyone rushed into e-commerce, and a lot of money was spent in the wrong places to achieve uncertain and elusive business goals. Sandy Carter, VP... Read More..

SOA is stirring seismic shifts in the integration market. Is the need for a lifecycle approach to building, deploying and managing services pushing integration vendors toward developers, and visa versa? Read More..

SOA isn't just for big business anymore. An electrical cooperative and auto parts retailer show how costs can be avoided and customers better served, thanks to SOA. Read More..

Insurer keeps lid on premiums by repurposing legacy systems Read More..

Too many companies still assume if they deploy an enterprise service bus -- or reasonable variation of an ESB -- that the hard part of SOA is taken care of. This is a misconception that's leading many SOA efforts astray,... Read More..

John Whitridge, vice president of enterprise architecture for Marriott International, sums up the company's SOA philosophy this way: "First, do no harm." Marriott's approach to SOA is, by design, slow and cautious. Whitridge, who recently gave a talk at the... Read More..

Here's a good example of policies put in place to drive desirable outcomes: Federal tax credits, along with access to high-occupancy vehicle lanes on the freeways, have helped boost the number of hybrid vehicles registered in the state of California.... Read More..

Merrill Lynch exposes search as SOA-based service. Read More..

"Nobody was ever fired for implementing an SOA." Unfortunately, such a phrase does not hold true -- at least not yet. You may remember the phrase "Nobody ever was fired for choosing IBM," which held sway in the 1980s. While... Read More..

I just saw this eBizQ report that Duke University has won IBM's third annual "SOA Case Study Competition." The 24-hour competition challenged MBA students from Duke University Fuqua School of Business and the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School... Read More..

Increasingly, integration action is taking place on the browser level. This may require a an adjustment in SOA priorities. Read More..

Financial services company moves from batch mode to near real-time SOA. Read More..

I was listening to an interview Gian Trotta just conducted with The Open Group's Allen Brown, when something dawned on me. Open Group had just announced a new association formed to promote the professionalism of SOA leaders, but doesn't even... Read More..