SOA in Action Blog: May 2007 Archives

Mashups May Help Users Better Understand SOA

By Joe McKendrick on May 31, 2007 5:03 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Will Web 2.0 approaches such as application mashups finally bring SOA to the masses? Software AG technology evangelist Mighael Botha thinks so, describing mashups as "the face of SOA." That's because mashups are tangible and accessible, he says -- "something... Read More..

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The Serendipity and Surprises of SOA

By Joe McKendrick on May 29, 2007 6:30 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Many companies set out with SOA to achieve an integration goal or streamline an application or process -- and wind up far more than they originally expected. As companies move further along the spectrum of SOA deployment, BEA engineering vice... Read More..

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SOA and SaaS Will Open Up New Vistas We Haven't Thought of Yet

By Joe McKendrick on May 27, 2007 10:36 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

The convergence of service-oriented architecture and Software as a Service lays open the possibilities of bringing in services from outside the firewall, which can be “snapped” into place within a company’s infrastructure. This also means that services a company creates... Read More..

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Consider SaaS for 'General-Purpose' SOA Services

By Joe McKendrick on May 24, 2007 11:37 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Service-oriented architecture and Software as a Service (SaaS) both use the word "service," but with two different meanings. And, typically, SOA has been within the firewall, while SaaS has been outside the firewall. Eric Newcomer, CTO of IONA Technologies, says... Read More..

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SOA Has Many Owners; Needs to be Collectively Managed

By Joe McKendrick on May 23, 2007 3:57 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Perhaps a good analogy for a service-oriented architecture is a condo or homeowner's association. The structure belongs to everyone in the organization. There is, in theory, no single owner. But, collectively, the co-owners entrust management of the enterprise to selected... Read More..

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Are Mashups the New Face of SOA?

By Joe McKendrick on May 22, 2007 10:17 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Are mashups the new face of SOA? SOA and Web 2.0 may have a lot more common ground than first realized. Recently, I had the opportunity to work with Gian Trotta, Beth Gold-Bernstein, Elizabeth Book, and the ebizQ team to... Read More..

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Fight SAA (Service Averse Architecture) with Lifestyle Changes

By Joe McKendrick on May 19, 2007 4:43 PM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes

What can an organization do to free itself from "Service Averse Architecture" and move more boldly into the Service Oriented kind? Through a good diet, lots of exercise, and changing bad behaviors -- figuratively, that is. I recently had the... Read More..

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BT's Big SOA: 'It's All About Customers, Not Operations'

By Joe McKendrick on May 16, 2007 9:04 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

I just had the opportunity to stop by InfoWorld's SOA Executive Forum in New York to imbibe in the whirlwind of enterprise case studies, expert panel discussions, and thought-provoking keynotes. What's the buzz this year in the world of SOA?... Read More..

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A New Term I Like: 'Service-Averse Architecture'

By Joe McKendrick on May 15, 2007 9:45 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Elizabeth Book has coined a new way to describe many of the attempts at Service Oriented Architecture that don't quite make the cut: "Service-Averse Architecture." Elizabeth says the a service-averse architecture is a project that meets at least one of... Read More..

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Tough Questions for a Tough SOA Machine

By Joe McKendrick on May 14, 2007 6:49 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Which comes first, the service or the machine? The service should be designed first, of course. But in the world of legacy systems, there may be limits on what services can be extracted or exposed. The mainframe is a great... Read More..

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Technology Won't Clear SOA Bottlenecks; Here's What Will

By Joe McKendrick on May 14, 2007 11:51 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

InfoWorld is preparing for this week's SOA Executive Forum in New York, and I and other members of the ebizQ community had the opportunity to help prepare of collateral material around the event, including a series of podcasts and articles... Read More..

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Five Rules for Design-time Governance

By Joe McKendrick on May 13, 2007 3:42 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Last fall, ebizQ put together a very comprehensive survey of SOA governance policies at 313 companies last fall, which found that those sites that have runtime and design-time automation are far more likely to report high levels of comfort with... Read More..

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The SOA-Virtualization Connection: Is This a Good Thing?

By Joe McKendrick on May 13, 2007 3:18 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

You can look at the SOA-virtualization connection two ways: one, SOA itself is a form of 'application virtualization,' in which components are represented and made accessible via an abstraction layer, or, two, since SOA workloads can be unpredictable, infrastructure virtualization... Read More..

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SaaS is Skyrocketing; But Needs SOA

By Joe McKendrick on May 3, 2007 10:52 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

New data out of Saugatuck Research finds Software as a Service (SaaS) is gaining traction in today's enterprises. As reported in Network World, more than a quarter of companies are using at least one SaaS application, up from 11% at... Read More..

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Airline Turns to a 'Bus' for Real-Time Messaging

By Joe McKendrick on May 2, 2007 10:57 AM 2 0 Vote 0 Votes

Running an airline requires a lot of synchronization between a lot of systems, and if you're operating a fleet of 300 airplanes making 1,000 flights a day, you have to make sure everything is airtight. What is each flight costing... Read More..

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