Joe McKendrick, ebizQ's SOA in Action Blogger, is a nationally published author and consultant
with deep knowledge and insights regarding trends and developments in
the technology industry. He is a contributing editor to a number of
national and international publications and Websites including
Database Trends & Applications, ZDNet, and Webservices.Org. He also
serves as analyst for Evans Data Corp., and is lead analyst for Evans'
Web services and enterprise development management issues surveys.
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« SOA or JBOWS? How Governance Made the DIfference for One Retailer | Main | Panel: Web 2.0 Will Shake Up SOA, Big Time » March 26, 2008More on ESBs and 'Rats Nests' of Point-to-Point Services EbizQ has just posted a transcript of my recent Webcast with IBM's Leif Davidson is now available for perusal. Some highlights of our discussion: Leif Davidson on how SOA always starts off with good intentions, but... "The past history of the whole IT business has shown what happens when there is no control, you know, as we talked about earlier in terms of creating rat’s nest. Everybody, you know, no one comes in with the intention of how can I make things more complicated and less flexible. Everyone starts off with good intentions and, you know, an SOA project whether it’s done by one team or, you know, 21 teams in a business could be done with the best intentions but could end up the with a mess." Yours truly on impending SOA growth: "We find [in our survey of 244 companies] that organizations are really ramping up their SOA initiatives. There’s going to be a lot of steady growth for SOA. We actually looked at companies -- we actually looked at the number of services, the number of enterprise services being shared or reused. They intend to deploy large numbers of services. By next year this time, according to what our respondents are telling us, those companies with more than 25 services will jump dramatically, the percentage of companies from 24% to 39% over the next 12 months." Leif on federated ESBs: "A Federated ESB is really a logical step from what we’ve talking about having separate ESB’s to meet different departmental and project needs. As you see on this chart any different department may have its own ESB but that doesn’t actually get away from the needs for all of those ESBs to deliver common capabilities but by the integration across different departments. And so the Federated ESBs really allowing businesses to select multiple different ESBs but allowing them to work together to provide common capabilities across that disparate infrastructure. Click here for the Webcast; here for the transcript. ____________________________________________________________________ Posted by joemckendrick in Management • SOA • SOA Events | Digg This | Add to del.icio.us Trackback Pings TrackBack URL for this entry:
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