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Enterprise architecture pitfalls: the obvious, and beyond the obvious

Brenda Michelson's 'crowdsourced' list of Enterprise Architecture pitfalls by Joe McKendrick

Tags: Enterprise Architecture, Pitfall, Brenda Michelson, Strategy, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-09-04

Three places where SOA needs more work

In a GEICO Insurance commercial, a marketer gets the idea to present the company's product pricing as "so easy even a caveman can understand it." He ends up having to buy dinner roast duck with mango salsa for some very offended cavemen. Likewise, SOA often gets presented by...

Tags: Brenda Michelson, SOA

Blog posts 2006-05-09

Time for event-driven SOA

Brenda Michelson over at PSGroup has done some deep thinking about the connection between Event-Driven Architecture EDA and SOA, raising the point that SOA is part of a constellation of strategies she calls the 'business-driven architecture.' "The most viable, agile architectures will be comprised of a blend of architecture strategies,...

Tags: SOA

Blog posts 2006-02-20

Wanted: someone who 'can innovate, simply'

Make the business grow; but don't spend money to do it. Sure, a mandate like this can make you want to pull your hair out. But this is also fertile opportunity for SOA, and other new-world IT strategies such as event-driven architecture and open-source software. Brenda Michelson of Patricia Seybold...

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Blog posts 2006-01-15

Start small, emphasize reuse, say early SOA adopters

For those of you who could not make it to last month's SOA Executive Forum in New York, Brenda Michelson of the PSGroup provides some details in her recent Weblog. Enterpises are justifying adoption of SOA three ways: through reuse, agility, and productivity gains, Michelson relates. With reuse, there was...

Tags: Brenda Michelson, SOA

Blog posts 2005-12-01

Additional Resources

Experts convene to analyze SOA's vital signs

Ron Schmelzer passed this on to me: he and the ZapThink crew are hosting an SOA confab next week in Boston that plays off the "SOA is Dead" theme we've been hearing so much about, titled "SOA: The Night of the Living Dead." And appropriately, Anne Thomas...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-07-16

Why does 'complex event processing' have to be so complex?

I've always felt that "complex event processing" is a term that scares people away. Perhaps there needs to be a softer way to describe what this thing is -- perhaps just plain old "event processing" will do? Or perhaps "sense and respond, times 100,000"? You don't need...

Tags: Event, Financial Services, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-06-11

Services for hire: SOA as revenue generator

We've been arguing endlessly across and around the blogosphere and conference circuit about the ability or alleged inability to show ROI from service oriented architecture-related projects. Never mind if SOA helps business revenues, how about breaking even? But in the age of service orientation, one thing is...

Tags: Revenue, SOA, Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operational Accounting, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-03-23

SOA: first or final cut?

Just as economists don't agree on how the economy will do in 2008, the picture is murky as to whether SOA would be seen as an instrument for cost cutting or something to be cut if corporate budgets were to be trimmed. In a new post, Dave...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-01-10

What would an economic downturn mean for SOA?

There's been a hysteria of doom and gloom lately over the state of the economy. While I believe the economy is very resilient and has weathered storms worse than the current situation, it's only natural that we see upturns and downturns in the business cycle. The 2008...

Tags: SOA, Economy, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-01-07

Is EDA the 'new' SOA?

Event driven architecture EDA may change the face of service-oriented architecture -- and all of IT for that matter -- as we know it. Thats the view of John Bates, vice president of Apama Products and researcher at Cambridge University, who recently spoke with SearchWebServices Rich Seeley. Today,...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-02-26

Under the governance umbrella

In a recent post, I quoted Brenda Michelson's view of the three places where SOA needs more work, including service definitions, semantic understanding, and establish formal SOA programs. A couple of readers have added their input. CBenedetto suggests adding SOA testing as another key area of SOA-based development and...

Tags: SOA

Blog posts 2006-05-12

Making sense of ESBs

Looking for a better understand of the vaunted Enterprise Service Bus. Well, then, here's a good resource via Dan Farber. It is a free white paper by Brenda Michelson, of the Patricia Seybold Group, entitled, "Enterprise Service Bus Evaluation Framework: Criteria for Selecting an Enterprise Service Bus as an Integration...

Tags: Enterprise Service Bus

Blog posts 2005-08-08

Deconstructing the enterprise service bus

Enterprise service bus ESB is one of those hot industry trends that is promoted as a cure all for integration ills. Brenda Michelson, of the Patricia Seybold Group, just published a free article, "Enterprise Service Bus Evaluation Framework: Criteria for Selecting an Enterprise Service Bus as an Integration Backbone," ...

Tags: Enterprise Service Bus

Blog posts 2005-08-04