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Intelligent economy

Long-time readers of this Weblog will recognize Britton Manasco's name as the founding co-author. When we first launched back in November 2004, Britton was the guiding hand in formulating and articulating the vital issues and opportunities in the SOA space. Britton's message always was to keep your feet on the...

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Blog posts 2006-03-03

SOA showdown: David meets Goliath

It's David against Goliath. Annraí O'Toole, Chief Executive Officer of Cape Clear Software, is taking on IBM in a battle for the future of SOA. What makes this interesting is that most companies of Cape Clear's size and stature (which is to say, small) are going out of their way...

Tags: Cape Clear Software, IBM Corp.

Blog posts 2005-10-30

The Composite Enterprise

Roger Sippl is convinced that the SOA movement is not getting the traction it deserves because the true benefits of SOA are not being articulated. As founder and CEO of Above All Software, Sippl is pressing the case for what he calls "the composite enterprise." In an interview, he tells...

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Blog posts 2005-10-21

Rethinking development

One of the biggest hurdles that developers face is that they can't just go out and purchase software to implement an SOA. "To succeed with SOA, developers must change the way they develop applications," according to Burton Group research director Anne Thomas Manes. "Unfortunately, most development tools aren't designed...

Tags: SOA

Blog posts 2005-10-18

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

Across the board and across the bow

One of the most valuable aspects of WebMethods' new study on SOA is that it forces us to recognize the weak focus of our current efforts to position and market the idea of SOA. As I wrote in my last piece, we are now struggling to identify the levers of...

Tags: WebMethods Inc., SOA

Blog posts 2005-10-10

Choking on SOA

One of the problems now facing the advocates of SOA is the very expansiveness of the concept. It promises so much from an architectural perspective, yet often leaves business decision-makers cold. You can't eat "enterprise agility." Yet that's the true promise. The SOA vision directs us to a point just...

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Blog posts 2005-10-05

SOA roadblocks

We all may be feeling a little impatient as we wait for SOA to truly take off, but it may be that we all suffer from some version of ADD, too. Rather than cooly and diligently stay the course, we get uptight in the absence of an overnight success. ...

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Blog posts 2005-10-04

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....

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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

Liquid language

The award for SOA eloquence has to go to BEA Systems. (Hats off to the brand and market positioning team.) "SOA is the most powerful movement in enterprise technology today," said Alfred Chuang, chairman and chief executive officer, BEA Systems, Inc., at the company's BEA World conference this week. "The...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc., SOA

Blog posts 2005-09-27

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

Patterns of SOA success

Acknowledging that there is now "more hype than actual work" in the field of SOA, David Linthicum, a prolific author and host of SOA Expert Podcast, offers several patterns of success to think about as one puts their SOA plans to work. "These patterns are not always obvious, so...

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Blog posts 2005-09-16

SOA + BPO = Chaos

SOA and BPO business process outsourcing aren't a natural match, apparently. Some think the two together can even unleash the forces of chaos. Writing in Information Week, Howard Baldwin describes a financial-services firm's risk management application that blew apart and failed to time and economic savings that were promised. ...

Tags: system-management application, business process, Howard Baldwin

Blog posts 2005-09-13

You don't say...?

The road to SOA success is replete with potholes. With this in mind, ZapThink's Jason Bloomberg offers this list of 7 things you "shouldn't say" during your enterprise architecture team meetings: Let's get our SOA from our preferred vendor. [Y]ou can't get SOA from software,...

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Blog posts 2005-09-08

SOA conference series

Just in case you are interested in some SOA networking and developing your understanding of current trends and opportunities in the field, the BrainStorm Group is producing a set of conferences on the topic in Washington, D.C. (Sept. 22-23) and New York City (Nov. 2-3). BrainStorm's Service Oriented Architecture Conference...

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Blog posts 2005-09-07

T-Mobile gets more from SOA

Yet another SOA success story comes from T-Mobile, the high profile provider of mobile communications services. In a recent conversation with CIO Magazine, Hossein Moiin, T-Mobile International's VP of technical strategy, offers a far-reaching perspective on the results the company has realized from its SOA efforts. He explains both internal...

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Blog posts 2005-09-05

SOA's deep impact on software

SOA is the top trend in the software industry, according to attendees at SandHill.com's Enterprise 2005 conference earlier this month. Asked what technology will have the most impact on the software industry in the next 12 months, 30% picked Service-Oriented Architectures SOAs, 27% picked open source and 27% picked mobile...

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Blog posts 2005-08-23

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

Fireman's Fund sees strategic differentiation in SOA

Fireman's Fund is one of several leading adopters of Service Oriented Architecture SOA in the insurance industry. The company, which generates $4.3 Billion in premium revenue, is relying on SOA to consolidate 70% of its technology applications. By more effectively aligning business with IT and strengthening its relationship with agents,...

Tags: Fireman, Fred Matteson, SOA

Blog posts 2005-08-21