April 2007 Archives

What is this thing called "Master Data Management" that everyone is talking about, and what's the connection with SOA? MomentumSI's John Kalogirou connects the dots for us, noting that MDM -- data shared across disparate IT systems and groups --... Read More..

One of things I try to accomplish at this blogsite on a regular basis is relay stories of outstanding SOA successes, and the unique challenges organizations had to overcome to get there. The latest SOA success story of interest to... Read More..

Does your business keep expecting the same kind of ROI from SOA as they get from point-to-point integrations, even though you try to explain until you're blue in the face that SOA is anything but P2P? Join the club. Unfortunately,... Read More..

Talk about integration challenges. I recently spoke with a number of insurance companies about their SOA strategies for aging policy administration systems for a new report in Insurance Networking News. In some cases, company policy administration systems were still running... Read More..

What's the most typical reaction from business managers upon hearing proposals for SOA-enabling their processes? Eyes glazed over? Look to the experience of a major aerospace manufacturer, with huge backend integration challenges, which managed to bring 100 interfaces to its... Read More..

Large fish are eating up all the smaller fish -- and that's our loss. That's the view of Dave Linthicum, who recently took a look across the SOA vendor landscape, and is a little concerned about what he sees --... Read More..

Can we, should we, automate SOA policies that are unenforceable by other means? In my previous post, I discussed the results of a new Aberdeen survey -- as well as ebizQ's own survey from last fall -- which demonstrated advantages... Read More..

How much of a difference does effective governance make in SOA? Apparently a big difference. Aberdeen Group has just completed and published a survey of 950 companies, and concluded that "between a third and half.. are having serious difficulties getting... Read More..

It used to be that when we needed help with a work-related problem, we stuck our head over to Jeff in the next cubicle, or made a phone call to a trusted colleague. Now, when we have an issue, we... Read More..

Full-fledged SOA adoption -- and even ESB implementations -- is still only a reality at a minority of companies. However, things may be ready to change, and soon at that. Adoption of SOA is expected to double over the next... Read More..

ebizQ colleague Beth Gold-Bernstein provides a great analysis of Software AG's announcement that it was buying integration vendor webMethods. Beth points out that the combination of the two companies' technologies serve up quite an offering, addressing governance, BPM/BAM,application composition, application... Read More..

One of my favorite quotes about SOA came from Susan Certoma, CIO of Wachovia Bank, who oversaw the deployment of a huge SOA project across the bank's Corporate and Investment Banking division. “It’s like a roller coaster. You go up... Read More..

The latest adventures of Greg the Architect Read More..