September 2007 Archives

On the Road to SOA

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By Joe McKendrick on September 29, 2007 3:39 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Over at the spicy ITGumbo blog community, Leah Archibald has put together some great in-the-trenches views of what it means to be service-orienting. Leah's Mumbo Gumbo comic takes us through the first step on the road to SOA, which is:... Read More..
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SOA Need Not be so Scary

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By Joe McKendrick on September 26, 2007 12:08 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
In anticipation of the upcoming "SOA in Action" virtual conference, October 30-31, ebizQ's own Gian Trotta recently chatted with Randy Heffner of Forrester Research to talk about some of the misconceptions around service-oriented architectures these days. Randy will be keynoting... Read More..
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Morgan Stanley Goes SOA: 'You Start Where You Can'

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By Joe McKendrick on September 25, 2007 10:50 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
A couple of years back, at brokerage giant Morgan Stanley, it became obvious that the firm's information technology was a drag on its competitiveness. As this new article by Penny Crosman relates, the brokerage giant turned to service-oriented architecture to... Read More..
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How One Retailer Unchained its Stovepiped Systems

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By Joe McKendrick on September 22, 2007 4:41 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Since its current inception a few years back, SOA has been mainly about delivering integration and agility within the corporate firewalls. But there's a vast frontier -- business-to-business interactions -- that some SOA implementations have only begin to tap. In... Read More..
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SOA-less Service-Oriented Architecture Pays Off

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By Joe McKendrick on September 19, 2007 5:43 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
It may sound like heresy for a blog that is supposed to tout the wonders of SOA in Action, but not all great integration projects have to be strictly about SOA, at least in the strictest sense of the definition.... Read More..
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No Application Left Behind

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By Joe McKendrick on September 17, 2007 4:38 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
In a recent post, I talked about how BT, the UK telecom giant, has been in the process of shutting down hundreds of legacy systems as it moves deeper into SOA. However, Michael Oara of Relativity, reacting to this report,... Read More..
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When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Go SOA Shopping

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By Joe McKendrick on September 14, 2007 11:38 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Everyone knows retail is a tough, dog-eat-dog business. And, in recent years, it's been no fun being a department store. They that have been eaten up by specialty stores and big-box warehousey stores alike. "It's a street fight everyday," said... Read More..
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Not Your Cable Guy's SOA Anymore

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By Joe McKendrick on September 12, 2007 2:34 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Andy Baer, CIO of Comcast, helped kick off the BEA World conference in San Francisco this week with a keynote presentation on the communications giant's efforts to employ SOA methodologies to better connect customer service activities, and thus avoid such... Read More..
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When is it Time to Shut Down Legacy Systems?

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By Joe McKendrick on September 10, 2007 12:20 PM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes
When is the best time to turn off legacy systems once their functions are captured in the SOA middleware layer? The sooner the better, says the chief architect at BT, the UK-based telecom mega-giant. A new report from InformationWeek's Charles... Read More..
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Keeping SOA High and Dry

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By Joe McKendrick on September 9, 2007 5:08 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Lorraine Lawson at IT Business Edge just surfaced some helpful words on SOA planning from the director of enterprise architecture and strategic planning for U.S. Coast Guard. If this is what the Coast Guard recommends, you can't go wrong. Not... Read More..
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Top-Down or Bottom-Up SOA? Why Not Both?

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By Joe McKendrick on September 6, 2007 11:38 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
There's been quite a bit of debate in the industry as of late as to whether a "bottom-up" or "top-down" approach is the best way to roll out an SOA program. Why not do both? ebizQ colleague David Kelly has... Read More..
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Study: SOA Testing Needs to be Horizontal as Well as Vertical

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By Joe McKendrick on September 4, 2007 10:33 PM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes
New research from Aberdeen Group shows that to effectively test and provide QA to SOA, companies are testing not only vertically (using unit and functional testing as their benchmark for quality) but are also testing horizontally across an entire business... Read More..
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Joe McKendrick

Joe McKendrick is an author and independent analyst who tracks the impact of information technology on management and markets. Joe is also SOA community manager for ebizQ, and speaks frequently on Enterprise 2.0 and SOA topics at industry events and Webcasts. Joe also authors ZDNet's SOA blog. He also serves as lead analyst and author of Evans Data Corp.'s highly regarded bi-annual SOA/Web Services and Web 2.0 surveys. Joe writes a regular column for Database Trends & Applications, and has authored numerous research reports in partnership with Unisphere Research for user groups such as SHARE, Oracle Applications Users Group, and International DB2 Users Group. In a previous life, Joe served as director of the Administrative Management Society (AMS), an international professional association dedicated to advancing knowledge within the IT and business management fields.


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