SOA in Action Blog: June 2007 Archives

The Three -- or Four -- Biggest SOA Mistakes, and How to Avoid Them

By Joe McKendrick on June 30, 2007 12:14 AM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes

Sandra Gittlen, writing in Datamation, explored "three ways to avoid SOA snafus.* Here are the three biggest snafus and how to address them: 1. Operating in a vacuum. SOA is an enterprise project, and should be managed as such. "You... Read More..

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BPEL4People Promises to Unjam Process Workflows

By Joe McKendrick on June 28, 2007 10:02 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Does Business Process Execution Language lack the "human touch"? Some industry leaders say that BPEL is too automation-centric, and lacks support for human interaction with the workflow. However, not everyone agrees on the best way to resolve the matter. Process... Read More..

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Real SOA, or JBOWS (Just a Bunch of Web Services)?

By Joe McKendrick on June 26, 2007 10:56 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Anyone listening to or reading many of the vendor statements and pundit analysis these days can be forgiven if they think that SOA is pervasive across all organizations large and small. However, most complete SOA efforts are still few and... Read More..

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Big Science SOA, and Not a Web Service in Sight

By Joe McKendrick on June 25, 2007 12:11 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Web services may offer the path of least resistance to SOA, but theoretically, are not essential to SOA. SOA is now being employed for the monitoring controls for Europe's largest particle accelerator, but employing Java-based technologies versus Web services. And... Read More..

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Are SOA and BPM Really a Match Made in Heaven?

By Joe McKendrick on June 22, 2007 9:48 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

One point I and many other analysts in the ebizQ blogosphere proclaim with great persistence is that SOA and business process management are made for each other. (I just said as much last week, here.) A service-oriented architecture provides the... Read More..

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How SOA Can Help Capture and Analyze RFID Data

By Joe McKendrick on June 18, 2007 5:55 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

SOA approaches and offerings are increasingly incorporating “event-driven architecture,” in which processes are launched or redirected in response to specific cues from applications. One of the most compelling enablers of real-time enterprise is radio frequency identification (RFID), which can provide... Read More..

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Four Fundamentals of SOA; All Interelated

By Joe McKendrick on June 14, 2007 9:53 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Nick Malik recently published, in one spot, the four fundamental concepts of SOA. Nick observes that these four concepts are tightly interrelated, though they might not seem like it when reviewed one by one: Enterprise Canonical Data Model - The... Read More..

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Enterprise Architects vs. SOA Architects: What's the Difference?

By Joe McKendrick on June 14, 2007 9:36 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

If enterprise architects act as the "city planners," who worry about the way neighborhoods are developed, and how people and commerce can flow most effectively, then what is the role of SOA architects? Should they function as the service providers,... Read More..

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SOA and BPM -- So Happy Together

By Joe McKendrick on June 14, 2007 8:52 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

At Wednesday's BI in Action virtual conference, I will be joining the Beth Gold-Bernstein, along with the folks from Business Objects and Savvion, in a panel discussion on the relationship between Business Intelligence, Business Process Management, and SOA. (Link and... Read More..

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Can We, Should We, Negotiate Our Way into SOA?

By Joe McKendrick on June 12, 2007 10:37 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

We hear a lot about SOA governance in the context of policy enforcement and change management. But, ultimately, none of this will mean a thing if there isn't a meeting of the minds. That's what will make or break an... Read More..

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SOA Gains Altitude at United

By Joe McKendrick on June 7, 2007 10:28 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Some industry observers have equated service-enabling formerly proprietary legacy applications to "putting lipstick on a pig," and this serves, at best, as a temporary solution until a full-fledged SOA environment is put into place. I think some legacy systems, such... Read More..

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Safeco Crosses New Boundaries with SOA

By Joe McKendrick on June 6, 2007 4:55 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

"The learning curve is steep. It is not so much any given aspect which is difficult to learn, it is rather the sheer number of technologies and tools one must be familiar with to execute the complete project." Early last... Read More..

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SOA Leaders Speak Out: This is Only the Beginning

By Joe McKendrick on June 5, 2007 10:44 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Experts with leading vendors of course, are optimistic about adoption of SOA, but in a recent series of podcasts, they candidly pointed out that many of their customers are only on the first leg of their journey to SOA. ebizQ... Read More..

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