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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...
- Tags: Britton Manasco
- Blog posts 2006-03-03
- SOA showdown: David meets Goliath
- It's David against Goliath. Annraà 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
- In praise of good governance
- There is some concern out there these days about the use and misuse of the term “governance.” As Ed Horst, VP of Marketing for AmberPoint, puts it, “Everybody wants control and the term ‘governance’ pushes that button.” There are issues around “run-time governance”: How are the systems performing? Are they...
- Tags: Horst
- Blog posts 2005-10-24
- 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...
- Tags: Roger Sippl, SOA
- 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...
- Tags: SOA
- 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. ...
- Tags: SOA
- 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....
- Tags: SOA
- 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
- BPEL battle
- Tod Nielsen, a former BEA Systems marketing exec who defected to Oracle, is now bad-mouthing his old employer. Well, sort of. Actually, he's just suggesting that BEA's BPEL Business Process Execution Language capabilities are not up to snuff. BPEL, the specification for orchestration of processes in SOAs, is considered one...
- Tags: BPEL
- Blog posts 2005-09-22
- Success-based SaaS
- The failure to understand the operational challenges associated with Software as a Service SaaS helps to explain why the first wave of SaaS vendors crashed and burned a few years ago. Back then, such vendors called themselves application service providers ASP. So what's different this time? I'm persuaded that...
- Tags: OpSource, software, software-as-a-service
- Blog posts 2005-09-21
- High maintenance in the software industry
- One source of potential pressure on enterprise software companies is their ability to hang onto maintenance contracts. Oracle, for instance, derives 45% of its revenues from maintenance agreements. In fact, a recent piece in Forbes suggested that this is one area that might be attacked by competitors. It pointed to...
- Tags: Enterprise software, Oracle Corp., software
- Blog posts 2005-09-16
- 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...
- Tags: SOA
- 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
- Finance-centered strategies
- One of the interesting aspects of new service-focused business models -- related to SOA and SaaS -- is their concentration on new pricing models. As opposed to requiring payment upfront, these models enable customers to pay on a subscription or incremental basis. Whether one is selling a perpetual license or...
- Tags: financial, revenue
- Blog posts 2005-09-10
- 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,...
- Tags: SOA
- Blog posts 2005-09-08
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