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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

Wall Street wakes up to Web services

Surprise, surprise. It seems that Wall Street analysts have found a new reason to be optimistic about the software industry -- one that they had begun to write off as "mature." Goldman Sachs analysts have upgraded the software sector to "attractive" from "neutral," noting that the "next big thing" in...

Tags: Web services, software, Web service, Web

Blog posts 2005-05-23

Beyond the hype

The promise of Web services will not be realized until we surmount both organizational and technical hurdles, argues Harvard Business School associate professor Andrew P. McAfee. At present, he believes "the hype is unrealistic." The technical problem, he explains, is that "any two applications are virtually guaranteed to contain...

Tags: Web service, Web

Blog posts 2005-05-17

To your health: Web services

Seattle's 17-hospital Providence Health System is leveraging Web services to transform how it operates, according to a recent piece in Healthcare Informatics. It brought in Cupertino-based Infravio Inc. to facilitate application integration work using the approach. That has enabled the organization to link many of its in-house legacy systems into...

Tags: Web service, health care, Web

Blog posts 2005-05-09

Extending the force through Web services

Salesforce.com is using Web services to extend the capacities of its core customer relationship platform. More specifically,?the $175 million company is giving its clients and third-party developers the tools to do this. Outspoken CEO Marc Benioff tells BusinessWeek, "...we've done three of four major releases with 100 to 150 new...

Tags: CRM

Blog posts 2005-04-14

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

In and out of love...with Web Services

Liz Lightfoot has some interesting insights on Web services over at our sister blog DataPoint. Leveraging some analysis from BT Trax, she notes that "interest in Web services ebbs and flows with some periodicity."While Gartner's initiation of coverage back in 2001 was a key milestonewith regard to overall interest, few...

Tags: Web service, Web

Blog posts 2005-04-01

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

Registry of choice?

Can a small and young, yet ambitious company define the Web services registry standard? That's what Infravio, which was started by two Stanford studentsand brothers in 1999, intends to accomplish. As Phil Wainright notes at Loosely Coupled, registries are one of the higher-level SOA layers thatWeb services players are beginning...

Tags: Web services, registry, Infravio, Web service, Web services registry, Web

Blog posts 2005-03-16

From Minor to major...

We've entered the "practical phase" of Web services, says Halsey Minor, CEO of Grand Central in a recent interview with Business Week. "The first phase was a bunch of people designing a whole bunch of standards -- primarily those were a bunch of computer scientists. Now people are getting practical...

Tags: Minor, Grand Central, Halsey Minor

Blog posts 2005-02-16

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

Disrupt or reinforce?

Some people continue to wonder whether Web services is what management author Clayton Chistensen calls a "disruptive innovation" -- one that utterly transforms an industry or an economic environment. True, Web services promise to dramatically change the way applications, systems and machines interact -- much as the Internetand the World...

Tags: Web service, Web

Blog posts 2005-01-19

Is the price right?

As demands for a higher quality of service QoS perpetually rise, service providers -- the organizations "exposing" Web services for active use -- will need to determine how to price for their offerings. While there are some companies now like Amazon that make Web services available at no charge, it's...

Tags: Web service, Web

Blog posts 2005-01-05

Inevitable confusion

Today's confusion over Web services standards was inevitable, argues Tarak Modi. Two reasons: 1) rapid advancement within the industry that eclipsed existing standards and 2) political jostling among vendors to gain a competitive edge. But that's OK. Modi suggests that sensible people can still bring sense to the challenge of...

Tags: Web service, Web, specification

Blog posts 2004-12-28

All tomorrow's services...

It's easytoget lost in the technical minutiaeassociated with SOA and Web Services. Presented with a blizzard of acronyms (SOAP, SOBA, XML), business decision-makers might even be tempted to roll their eyes and walk away. But that would be a terrible mistake. As Accenture's Anatole Gershman has written, the challenge for...

Tags: Web service, Web, homeowner

Blog posts 2004-12-22