March 2007 Archives

SOA or State Of Anarchy? Governance Makes the Difference

user-pic
By Joe McKendrick on March 29, 2007 9:52 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
"There is no easy way of describing an ungoverned SOA." - Mark Greeff In a new interview, Software AG's Mark Greeff talks about how governance makes the difference between a well-managed SOA and a 'State Of Anarchy.' Take rogues services,... Read More..
Categories:

SOA: The 'Ultimate Justification' for Virtualization

user-pic
By Joe McKendrick on March 28, 2007 4:01 PM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes
A few days back, I opened up a discussion on the convergence of virtualization and service-oriented architecture. The convergence comes in many flavors. In one sense, SOA itself can be considered the "virtualization" of applications. But the main issue that... Read More..
Categories:

The Four Greatest Mistakes Companies Make in SOA RFPs

user-pic
By Joe McKendrick on March 26, 2007 10:22 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
The best request for proposal (RFP) for SOA may be one that doesn't even mention SOA. Read More..
Categories:

Can Success Throw Your SOA Off Balance?

user-pic
By Joe McKendrick on March 24, 2007 10:00 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Is it possible for your SOA to become a victim of its own success? If you have built and maintain a fairly healthy stable of services, and other departments across your enterprise begin adopting (or reusing) your services, your servers... Read More..

Ten Ways to Improve Your SOA

user-pic
By Joe McKendrick on March 22, 2007 9:51 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Ann Bednarz, writing in BPM Today, provides a list of 10 best practices for SOA: 1) Start with a process that previously has been opened. In other words, the path of least resistance. Pick a "target system" in which other... Read More..
Categories:

Ultimately, SOA is About the Data

user-pic
By Joe McKendrick on March 21, 2007 10:08 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Service-oriented architecture and enterprise data management have a lot of common ground, but tend to be treated as two separate entities. There are some industry observers who even say a well-designed data model, based on current database and data management... Read More..
Categories:

ESBs Promise to Untangle 'Rat's Nests'

user-pic
By Joe McKendrick on March 20, 2007 9:28 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Oh what a tangled Web we weave when first we practice to integrate.... My colleague Gian Trotta just conducted an interview with Leif Davidsen, worldwide product marketing manager for WebSphere Application Integration for IBM. (Podcast and transcript posted here.) Davidsen... Read More..
Categories:

Before You Reuse, Get Your Ducks in a Row

user-pic
By Joe McKendrick on March 19, 2007 10:44 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
There has been a raging debate across the industry about whether reuse is the value that can be found in SOA, or if it's merely the latest attempt at object-oriented development. Marcia Kaufman of Hurwitz Group is in the reuse-is-value... Read More..
Categories:

BPM and SOA Need to Mix It Up More

user-pic
By Joe McKendrick on March 15, 2007 10:49 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
"Those with BPM skills are not typically part of the SOA discussion, and as such their knowledge and connection to the business has not transferred to the organization's separate efforts. What sort of business process knowledge can SOA folks learn... Read More..
Categories:

Using SOA to Enrich the Customer Experience

user-pic
By Joe McKendrick on March 14, 2007 10:36 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
SOA is more than tying together back-end systems. It can also serve as a strategy to advance a unified communications platform that enhances the customer experience. Dana Gardner provides this account of the Seaport Hotel's in-room "Seaportal" application, built using... Read More..
Categories:

Sun's Effort to Sell SOA Internally Has a Familiar Ring

user-pic
By Joe McKendrick on March 14, 2007 9:48 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
You would think that a large vendor that sells SOA solutions would have no issues implementing said solutions across their own enterprises. But, alas, getting employees to eat your own dogfood is just as challenging as selling solutions on the... Read More..
Categories:

SOA Consortium Launches Enterprise Architecture Survey

user-pic
By Joe McKendrick on March 12, 2007 11:54 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
EbizQ colleague Brenda Michelson has just announced that the newly formed SOA Consortium is seeking enterprise architects to participate in an industry survey that seeks to help understand where EA is today, where it will be in the future, and... Read More..
Categories:

Standards, Specs, and Protocols, Oh Boy

user-pic
By Joe McKendrick on March 9, 2007 12:00 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
If you've ever felt overwhelmed by the plethora of standards, specs, and protocols that have been generated in the name of simplifying service delivery, don't feel alone. There's at least 60 or more of these out there, covering everything from... Read More..
Categories:

Hurry, SOA -- We're Still Mired in Manual Integration

user-pic
By Joe McKendrick on March 9, 2007 11:45 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
A new survey conducted by Forrester Consulting for Progress Software Corp. confirms what many IT professionals and managers in the trenches already suspected -- there's a lot of integration work going on out there, and much of it is still... Read More..
Categories:

Two Quick-Win SOA Projects

user-pic
By Joe McKendrick on March 7, 2007 10:30 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
"Two SOA Projects That Can Pay for Themselves in Six Months" Now, there's an eye-catching headline if I ever saw one. (Okay, it probably doesn't rank up there with "I Was Abducted by Space Aliens," but you know what I... Read More..
Categories:

SOA Success, One Integration Project at a Time

user-pic
By Joe McKendrick on March 5, 2007 10:15 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
SOA success doesn't come all at once -- it's built incrementally, usually starting with some type of integration project. Kicking off last week's Skyway Webinar (hosted and archived here at ebizQ), Mike Gilpin of Forrester Research spoke at length about... Read More..
Categories:

SOA Threatens a Quaint 20th Century Practice -- Double Data Entry

user-pic
By Joe McKendrick on March 1, 2007 9:33 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
One might think a high-tech manufacturing operation would be light years ahead of your average business in terms of service orienting applications. But even the techiest of the high techiest firms are still run on behemoth ERP systems that tend... Read More..
Categories:

« February 2007 | Blog Home | Archives | April 2007 »

SOA in Action Blog

Joe McKendrick

Joe McKendrick is an author and independent analyst who tracks the impact of information technology on management and markets. Joe is also SOA community manager for ebizQ, and speaks frequently on Enterprise 2.0 and SOA topics at industry events and Webcasts. Joe also authors ZDNet's SOA blog. He also serves as lead analyst and author of Evans Data Corp.'s highly regarded bi-annual SOA/Web Services and Web 2.0 surveys. Joe writes a regular column for Database Trends & Applications, and has authored numerous research reports in partnership with Unisphere Research for user groups such as SHARE, Oracle Applications Users Group, and International DB2 Users Group. In a previous life, Joe served as director of the Administrative Management Society (AMS), an international professional association dedicated to advancing knowledge within the IT and business management fields.


Subscribe



Subscribe in Bloglines
Subscribe in NewsGator Online
Add ebizQ's SOA in Action Blog to Newsburst from CNET News.com
Add to Google

Recently Commented On

Monthly Archives

ADVERTISEMENT