July 2007 Archives

One of the challenges in bringing business process management together with service-oriented architecture is that the two essentially exist in two separate worlds, managed and promoted by different teams with different agendas. However, the two need each other more than... Read More..

Many analysts predict that event-driven architecture and complex event processing represent the next leap for SOA. This leap is explored in greater detail by David Linthicum, Roy Schulte, and Dr. K. Mani Chandy, who recently posted insights here at ebizQ... Read More..

It's said that SaaS applications are nice, but the most vexing issue is achieving meaningful integration with existing in-house financial and ERP systems. Integration is the next great frontier of SaaS -- and the point where SOA can help. Robert... Read More..

Microsoft keeps talking more and more about service-oriented architecture, and even now offers an e-book on the topic, SOA in the Real World. Thanks to Redmond Magazine's Chris Kanaracus for the pointer As Microsoft puts it: "SOA is an architectural... Read More..

Jon Brodkin, writing in JavaWorld, recently posted some answers to the six "burning" questions that stick in people's minds when they think about SOA. 1. Is anyone saving (or making money) using SOA? Good one. The challenge is that SOA... Read More..

ebizQ columnist David Kelly observes how we've -- both on a personal level and organizationally -- have become overwhelmed and inundated with data from all sources, on all kinds of devices and platforms. Can SOA help us through this morass?... Read More..

While SOA, rightly or wrongly, is primarily seen as a strategy for optimizing IT operations, it's always good to see where it directly impacts the business. In this month's Baseline Magazine, David Carr provides an interesting account of how service-oriented... Read More..

Can SOA help forstall or even render big ERP upgrades unnecessary? I have heard a number of accounts of how enterprises were able to move various pieces of functionality off their aging ERP systems to a service-oriented middleware, and in... Read More..

Sandy Kemsley, who has graced many of these pages with her insights, says SOA and Business Process Management (BPM) are a difficult mix, and, truth be told, one can be implemented without the other. But doing one without the other... Read More..

What's on the horizon for business intelligence? What's business process management got to do with it? And, for that matter, what's service-oriented architecture got to do with it? Those are the questions recently taken up at a panel discussion led... Read More..

Last week, I had the opportunity to do a presentation at SOA World East in New York, in which I explored some of the issues facing organizations making the crossing from JBOWS (Just a Bunch of Web Services, of course)... Read More..

That's a headline that certainly caught my eye when I spotted it in Application Development Trends. This is especially argumentative, in light of Steve Jones' recent pronouncement that SOA and BPM aren't necessarily a good mix, since BPM breaks down... Read More..