SOA in Action Blog: July 2007 Archives

BPM and SOA: Separated at Birth; Finally Reunited!

By Joe McKendrick on July 31, 2007 10:32 AM 2 0 Vote 0 Votes

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..

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Making SOA More Eventful

By Joe McKendrick on July 30, 2007 6:48 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

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..

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SOA Saves the Day at Pay-N-Pray Motors

By Joe McKendrick on July 29, 2007 10:49 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

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..

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Microsoft Writes the Book on SOA

By Joe McKendrick on July 25, 2007 12:23 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

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..

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Is Anyone Making Money from SOA?' And Five More Questions

By Joe McKendrick on July 20, 2007 5:59 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

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..

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Urgent: Time to Better Integrate SOA and Data Management

By Joe McKendrick on July 19, 2007 10:43 AM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes

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..

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SOA Helps Tally Up the Miles

By Joe McKendrick on July 19, 2007 10:02 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

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..

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A New Chemistry Brews Between ERP and SOA

By Joe McKendrick on July 17, 2007 10:40 AM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes

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..

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SOA and Business Process Management Don't Need Each Other, But...

By Joe McKendrick on July 12, 2007 10:35 PM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes

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..

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BI, BPM, and SOA in Action, Together

By Joe McKendrick on July 9, 2007 7:01 PM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes

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..

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Nine Fearless Predictions on SOA

By Joe McKendrick on July 6, 2007 12:53 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

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..

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BPM is SOA's Reason for Existence

By Joe McKendrick on July 2, 2007 4:44 PM 3 0 Vote 0 Votes

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..

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