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- SOA 2010: Looking backward
- Ever wondered what we might learn about SOA if we looked back from the future? Bruce Richardson, chief research officer at AMR Research, has. He flew his time machine to the year 2010 and offered a report back. His wisdom and warning for us: "SOA is a journey, not a...
- Tags: Bruce Richardson, SOA
- Blog posts 2005-10-14
- SOA skepticism
- Not everybody believes the SOA hype, as our blog talkback section demonstrates week in and week out. And, in the spirit of free inquiry, we continue to welcome any and all skepticism and downright rejection of the SOA movement right here in this space. One forceful argument -- "SOA Sucks!"...
- Tags: SOA, Web service
- Blog posts 2005-09-27
- Software architects and SOA interdependencies
- Sandra Rogers, program director for service-oriented architecture SOA, Web services, and integration research at IDC, was recently asked what professional role becomes particularly important as the SOA movement evolves. Her answer: software architect. As she explained in a recent issue of Optimize Magazine, "They play a critical role in...
- Tags: interdependency, SOA
- Blog posts 2005-08-22
- SOA and the bottom line
- It is important to budget for "the range of expenses that follow Web services into an enterprise," writes Thomas Erl in his recent book aptly titled Service Oriented Architecture. "Web services are expensive. That is, good Web services require a great deal of work to ensure that they truly are...
- Tags: Web service, SOA, Thomas Erl
- Blog posts 2005-06-22
- Stages of SOA adoption
- Systinet, a provider of?SOA governance and life-cycle management solutions,?offers a useful model for understanding SOA?adoption. Among the three stages the?company?recognizes: Phase One: Web Services?Enablement. This is a tactical implementation of Web services where existing applications have standard Web services interfaces. Replacing proprietary APIs reduces integration complexity for these applications. These...
- Tags: Web, business service
- Blog posts 2005-04-12
- The F1000 embraces SOA
- Fortune 1000?XML and Web service projects?are on the rise, according to a new study?by RESolution Market Research (which was backed by?Conformative Systems). "Among our survey respondents, service-oriented architectures SOAs and Web services are now a key choice for application development because of the ease of programming and data interchange," said...
- Tags: Web service, Web, SOA, RESolution Market Research, XML
- Blog posts 2005-04-06
- Meta-Spaghetti
- In a recent opinion piece at SandHill.com, John Hagel, author of the forthcoming book The Only Sustainable Edge, argues that SOA is generating tangible benefits in the marketplace. However, he worries that the "fragmented" implementation of such efforts could undermine its momentum. "The most striking element of the Web services...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, SOA, John Hagel, Web service, Web Services Technology, Web
- Blog posts 2005-03-21
- SOA power
- As Bruce Silver points out in Intelligent Enterprise, companies need business process management BPM to be agile. "But to achieve agility without breaking the bank, you can't simply rip and replace," he adds. "You must break down legacy stovepipes into modular components that can be reused in multiple business processes....
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, business process, Web service, Web
- Blog posts 2005-02-07
- Move about the cabin
- David Stodder, editor of Intelligent Enterprise, offers an interesting and much appreciated on my part spin on what Web services is all about. While acknowledging that SOA represents an important leap in the integration world, he takes it further to put emphasis on the new "knowledge products" that are now...
- Tags: Web, Web service
- Blog posts 2005-02-01
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