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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
- 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
- Yahooooooooo!
- Yahoo is making its internal systems resources available to developers through Web services, notes Alice LaPlante in Web Services Pipeline. "Yahoo has joined the ranks of Google, eBay, Amazon.com, and, more recently, TIVO," she adds.The Yahoo Search Developer Networkenablesthird-party developers to "access Yahoo content and services and build Yahoo directly...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-03-22
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Web as platform
- Time was, technologies began their lives in the enterprise and then, eventually, drifted out into the consumer realm. Now, we may be seeing a reversal of this pattern. Consumer demand and buying power seems to be drivingnew waves of innovation that only later hit the corporate world. Mobile phone and...
- Tags: Web
- Blog posts 2004-12-28
- 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
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