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SOA innovation amid spending crunch

Companies are holding the line on IT spending -- even as they seek smarter ways to invest in IT innovation, according to Information Week's annual survey of top IT users. "Average IT spending among the InformationWeek 500, at $293 million, is at its lowest level in five years," it states....

Tags: SOA

Blog posts 2005-09-30

Clearing out the cobwebs

Point-to-point integration "has crippled the health and flexibility of most IT architectures by creating a cobweb of hundreds, even thousands, of brittle linkages that have to be torn apart and reassembled every time one of the applications changes," according to an excellent piece in CIO Magazine by Christopher Koch. In...

Tags: integration

Blog posts 2005-09-28

British American Tobacco rolls out SOA

"Our existing approaches to integration and application development were costly to implement and sustain, fragmented and hard to consolidate, and time-consuming and slow to deliver value," says Kevin Poulter, application development manager for British American Tobacco, explaining why his company adopted an SOA approach. IN a recent issue of Optimize,...

Tags: SOA

Blog posts 2005-08-02

Seeking: SOA Renaissance Man

What might the job description for an enterprise-minded, SOA architect read like? Good question -- and one that ZapThink's Ron Schmelzer takes on in a recent piece. That person would excel at: Communication: "...a key duty of the architect is the ability to keep one leg firmly planted in the...

Tags: information technology

Blog posts 2005-07-28

Implementing SOA from the bottom-up

There's nothing obvious about how to successfully implement service-oriented architecture SOA in a way There's nothing obvious about how to successfully implement service-oriented architecture SOA in a way that will win business converts. Quite often, business decision-makers simply don't understand what it is all about in the early days. You...

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Blog posts 2005-06-10

Datapoint: SOA is a priority

Wondering where SOA and web services rank in terms of IT priorities? Right in the middle of the pack. According to ZD Research (and compliments of our sister blog, Datapoint), the latest findings from our IT Priorities survey of IT professionals in organizations with 500 or more employees show......wired and...

Tags: SOA

Blog posts 2005-02-10

Additional Resources

The great ESB squabble of 2005

Both my blogmates Dan Farber and Britton Manasco have provided pointers to excellent information on what enterprise service buses ESBs are all about. However, there is some confusion -- if not outright sniping -- over who invented ESBs to begin with. Datamonitor ComputerWire's Jason Stamper picked up on...

Tags: Sonic Software, Enterprise Service Bus

Blog posts 2005-08-08