August 2008 Archives

Successful SOA projects seems to have one thing in common -- they were developed on an incremental basis. The same principal extends to SOA governance itself, says Larry Fulton, senior analyst at Forrester Research. "You can really go too far... Read More..

What form will SOA take over the next few years? Predictions abound, but when the CTO of a major North American government talks about it, it's worth taking notice. In this case, a CTO says SOA has matured, and is... Read More..

We're hearing the same message from everyone who engages in service oriented architecture: SOA is hard work. It doesn't drop from the sky; it doesn't come all pre-assembled in a box; it doesn't percolate up from the ranks. Brenda Michelson... Read More..

Next month, ebizQ will be offering what has to be the most compelling conference to date on the topic of SOA governance. The upcoming one-day virtual conference, titled SOA Governance, will be held right here at the ebizQ site on... Read More..

I've been meaning to help call attention to an interesting request for proposal (RFP) coming out of the Rhode Island court system, entitled "Service Oriented Architecture Implementation." Jeff Schneider discovered this one, and wonders if this provides a good example... Read More..

For a number of years, most discussions involving SOA governance revolved around registries and repositories and whether to implement them in design time or runtime environments, and whether UDDI was the optimum spec for all this. Now, there's an increasing... Read More..

Dave Linthicum has created quite a stir across the blogosphere with his pronouncements that enterprise service buses (ESBs) should be parked, out of the way of the growing stream of service oriented architecture traffic. Not only that, enterprise service buses... Read More..

Taking a cue from Nicholas Carr's eye-opening Harvard Business Review article, "IT Doesn't Matter," Shawn Arney asks if SOA still "matters." Carr argued that IT was reaching a point in ubiquity in which having IT was no more strategic than... Read More..

I wish I had David Linthicum's knack for coining new phrases. In his latest post, he recommends a new title to promote IT-business transformation within the enterprise: "Vice President of Enterprise Architecture Revolution." I thought David Coterill, who I participated... Read More..

It seems there's a lot more attention being paid to the matter of SOA security as of late, and it's understandable to see why it's all happening at this stage of the game. SOA methodologies have become a mainstream part... Read More..

'Trust' is an important word in the SOA realm, first because consumers of services need to trust that these services are stable and secure, and second, because both users and applications will be either be providing, or accessing and consuming... Read More..

JM: Hello, this is Joe McKendrick contributor to ebizQ and the SOA in Action website. I'm pleased to be joined today by Dr. Raj Nagaratnam, IBM distinguished engineer and chief architect, Identity and SOA Security. SOA security is a hot... Read More..

Are SOA and Enterprise Architecture converging, as many analysts say, or are they still worlds apart? If they are worlds apart, how do organizations find and nurture those special individuals that can bridge both the business and IT worlds, while... Read More..