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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

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

Rearden Commerce: SOA empire in the making?

Who is Patrick Grady? That's a question that is likely to be answered many times over in the coming months as his"employee business services" company, Rearden Commerce, gathers market momentum. Grady told our own Dan Farber that it was the "extreme audacity" of the undertaking that kept him quiet about...

Tags: Patrick Grady, Rearden Commerce

Blog posts 2005-03-04

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

Additional Resources

Christening the Good Ship...

It's an interesting time to cast our eyes on the world of Web services. IDC forecasts that global spending on such projects will rise from $1.1 billion in 2003 to reach $11 billion by 2008. Gartner considers the emergence of services oriented architectures SOA to be the number one software...

Tags: Web service, Web

Blog posts 2004-10-27