July 2008 Archives

The Benefits of a Well-Centered SOA

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By Joe McKendrick on July 31, 2008 10:37 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
A couple of months back at this blogsite, we discussed the SOA centers of excellence. One of the big advantages of these centers -- also known as integration competency centers or steering committees -- is that they can lift SOA... Read More..
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Giving Your SOA Pilot Wings

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By Joe McKendrick on July 31, 2008 10:07 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
You have piloted your SOA and it is a success. What happens now? How do you scale SOA to meet the needs of the larger enterprise? This is one of the biggest challenges SOA proponents now face -- moving to... Read More..
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Five SOA Frameworks with SOA Security Issues

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By Joe McKendrick on July 29, 2008 10:56 AM 2 0 Vote 0 Votes
It was notable to see that Fortify has begun to address the vastly underserved SOA security space. Fortify said it conducted research on the five most popular SOA frameworks -- Apache Axis, Apache Axis 2, IBM WebSphere 6.1, Microsoft .NET... Read More..
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Is There Such a Thing as an SOA Professional?

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By Joe McKendrick on July 28, 2008 4:48 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
A couple of years back, SOA was merely a dream that many had for moving systems and applications forward into some sort of new online, highly integrated enterprise. But it was unclear who would lead that effort, and how much... Read More..
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SOA and BPM -- All in the Same Breath

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By Joe McKendrick on July 28, 2008 11:25 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
We talk a lot in these pages about the promise of converging SOA with Business Process Management -- and how this convergence MUST happen in order to establish SOA as a business practice. However, of course, the reality has been... Read More..
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Cultural Issues -- Why Executive Buy-In Matters

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By Joe McKendrick on July 17, 2008 10:08 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
You've heard it plenty of times in this blogsite -- organizational and cultural issues will put the kibosh on SOA much faster than any technical concerns that may arise. Here's more proof. In a new article, SearchSOA's Rich Seeley describes... Read More..
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Creating Enterprise Order Out of Web 2.0 Chaos

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By Joe McKendrick on July 17, 2008 8:50 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Web 2.0 means chaos -- a lot of chaos. Rob Koplowitz, analyst with Forrester Research, will be joining a cast of other E2.0 experts on July 23rd to talk about the challenge of leveraging Web 2.0 technology in enterprise settings.... Read More..
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A Quick-Start Guide to SOA: Start Anywhere, But Start Nonetheless

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By Joe McKendrick on July 16, 2008 6:18 PM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes
I recently had the honor of emceeing the launch of a new book called An Implementor's Guide to SOA: Getting It Right. (The Webcast can be accessed here at the Composite Software site.) The book is a quick read, and... Read More..
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App Servers: Anachronism or Agent of Change in the Age of SOA?

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By Joe McKendrick on July 14, 2008 4:03 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Over the years, many companies have turned to app servers -- both Java Enterprise Edition and Microsoft .NET framework -- to handle, under the covers, the "plumbing" of messaging, standards, and protocols. App servers were seen as the easiest on-ramp... Read More..
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'If You Don't Know Where You're Going with SOA, Any Road Will Get You There'

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By Joe McKendrick on July 13, 2008 11:53 AM 3 0 Vote 0 Votes
Successful service oriented architecture means more than getting all your technology pieces in order -- even more crucial is lining up organizational support for the changes that SOA will bring. That's the experience David Saul, senior VP and chief information... Read More..
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Prediction: Make Room for Even More SOA

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By Joe McKendrick on July 10, 2008 3:26 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Service oriented architecture adoption will double over the next four years, a leading analyst firm predicts. AMR Research has just issued a forecast that the SOA market will hit $52 billion by the year 2012, up from the current level... Read More..
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Bowling 2.0

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By Joe McKendrick on July 10, 2008 10:27 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
What can bowling teach us about event processing? Yesterday, I had the opportunity to join the ebizQ team in New Rochelle, NY for their annual summer shindig. It was great to meet -- and a privilege to work with --... Read More..
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When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Go to Enterprise Architecture

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By Joe McKendrick on July 8, 2008 10:59 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
According to Forrester, when times get tough, the tough turn to their enterprise architects to keep projects in synch with the ever-more sensitive constraints of the business. As Analyst Gene Leganza puts it in a new report (summarized here in... Read More..
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SOA Buy Time?

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By Joe McKendrick on July 1, 2008 11:26 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
451 Group's Dennis Callaghan proved to be prescient when he recently predicted that the SOA acquisition wave would resume in earnest this year. Dennis, who I know from my Midrange Systems days, looked at the ripening market for consolidation, particularly... Read More..
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