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- 'SOA' dead as of January 1st, analyst says
- Say it isn't SOA? Anne Thomas Manes declares 'SOA' a casualty of a slow economy and failure to deliver ROI by Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-01-06
- What's wrong with SOA being 'enterprisey'?
- A new word has entered our lexicon: 'enterprisey,' which is being applied to SOA. Is this a word with positive or negative connotations? (Wikipedia defines it as a "derogatory" term.) Tim Bray Sun agrees that being enterprisey is not a good thing, and recently made the charge that SOA/WS-splat is...
- Blog posts 2006-05-10
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- SOA enters 'Second Life'
- Dave Linthicum saw Anne Thomas Manes' latest post on the "SOA is Dead" affair, and declared that it's time to move on from the 'SOA is dead' debate. "We're entering a new, and productive, era where SOA is providing its appropriate value." Hear, hear, well said. Anne herself said we...
- Blog posts 2009-05-28
- Manes: no bones about it, 'SOA' (as we knew it) is still dead
- "I never intended to say that organizations shouldn't do SOA (they MUST!), but SOA teams are hard pressed to get funding for their efforts unless they focus on delivering services that generate measurable business value." - Anne Thomas Manes Anne Thomas Manes...
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- 'SOA is Dead' debate lives on and on
- I didn't see the brilliant analyst Anne Thomas Manes at either of this week's IBM IMPACT or Software AG's SOA Summit events, but boy, was she there in spirit. The topic still on everybody's minds and lips at both events was Anne's pronouncement at the beginning of the year that...
- Blog posts 2009-05-08
- Moving SOA beyond 'service oriented integration'
- "All this money is going into ESBs and Web services, and they get a dozen or two integration projects going, but are they getting any business value out of that? I don't see it." -Anne Thomas Manes, quoted in SearchCIO There's been a simmering debate going...
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- Bull market for SOA emerges -- or should that be Red Bull market?
- Dave Linthicum really has a way with expressions, and I can relate to his latest admonition -- forget the endless hype and discussion around SOA and cloud computing, and just sling down a few Red Bulls and start rocking and rolling. I, too, am getting tired, just...
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
- SOA adoption trends -- what the data tells us
- In response to a recent post that talked about corporate success rates with SOA, a reader issued a challenge to show the numbers behind SOA adoption. So, here is a summary of significant surveys -- a recap from previous posts -- on SOA adoption that have been conducted over the...
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
- Manes: in today's climate, be specific about SOA-related requests
- In the second half of our recent BriefingsDirect podcast, hosted by Dana Gardner, we heard more from Anne Thomas Manes, who provided more perspective on her recent proclamation that SOA -- at least as we knew it -- is dead. (Link to podcast here, full transcript here.) The...
- Blog posts 2009-02-02
- Soft talk: What is service oriented communications, and why will it matter?
- Can we build our phone systems as standardized applications or services that will easily plug into the rest of our IT infrastructures? That's the promise of service oriented communications, which could convert communications and communications channels (voice, text, conference calls, email, IM) into software, so we can...
- Blog posts 2009-02-02
- Burton Group plans to lay SOA to rest (no pun intended)
- As we all know by now, Anne Thomas Manes tearfully announced that SOA met its untimely or very timely demise on New Year's Day, the victim of an errant meteor, or some kind of weird piece of junk falling from outer space. (Or perhaps a stray shot from the grassy...
- Blog posts 2009-01-30
- BriefingsDirect analysts discuss Service Oriented Communications, debate how dead SOA really is
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Additional underwriting by TIBCO Software. Special offer: Download a free, supported 30-day trial of Active Endpoint's ActiveVOS at www.activevos.com/insight. Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition,...
- Blog posts 2009-01-26
- Manes: let's get more 'concrete' about service orienting
- More on the Architecture Formerly Known as SOA: Anne Thomas Manes created quite a kerfuffle across the blogosphere this past week with her pronouncement that SOA [as we know it]Â is "dead," at least as a concept for addressing efficient delivery of services across enterprises. ...
- Blog posts 2009-01-10
- New Website for 'the architecture formerly known as SOA'
- Who said SOA types can't be the life of the party. Miko Matsumura, curator of the SOA Center blogsite, has just renamed his site the Whatever-you-want-to-call-it Center, at http://whatevercenter.com. This was done in reaction to Anne Thomas Manes' New Year's proclamation that "SOA [as we have known...
- Blog posts 2009-01-07
- SOA's support network
- David Linthicum counterbalanced last week's downbeat assessment on the things killing SOA with five reasons to be optimistic about service orienting (that's the spirit). Very notably, Dave credits enlightened CTOs/CIOs and CEOs with seeing SOA through the swamps of skepticism. As he observed, "CTOs (or those that...
- Blog posts 2008-12-11
- Panel: How to sell SOA governance to a skeptical audience
- Panel: How to sell SOA governance to a skeptical audiencePanel: How to sell SOA governance to a skeptical audienceGood stuff. SOA is like recycling. Get people on board with the general idea and its benefits to the whole, then make it really easy to do, then only start...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Enterprise Service Busted?
- Enterprise Service Busted?ESBsIt really depends on your environment. My company is a medium sized company and we did not have any middleware. For us the ESB made a lot of sense. If you already have middleware, you may not need an ESB. You might be set...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Is SOA delivering value? We need to understand this better
- Loraine Lawson just posted some thoughts about the results of a new qualitative study, sponsored by SAP and conducted in conjunction with the University of St. Gallen, which suggests that businesses are starting to see some results from SOA initiatives. Most organizations simply don't know what...
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Are SOA-related business concerns outside the IT 'comfort zone'?
- Those folks at Burton Group really know how to rattle our cages. A few weeks back, Anne Thomas Manes declared that she has yet to see any solid SOA success stories, and reportedly is still looking for one. When the subject of SOA business value came up,...
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Analyst: why even the best SOAs are 'stalling'
- "It has become clear to me that SOA is not working in most organizations." -Anne Thomas Manes Many SOAs are 'stunningly beautiful infrastructures,' but have yet to deliver value When Anne talks, people listen. That's why this line in her latest blog...
- Blog posts 2008-03-16
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