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How to keep too many cooks from spoiling the SOA broth

As part of InfoWorld's SOA Executive Forum held last week in New York, I hosted a podcast with with special guest Ashish Mohindroo, Oracle's Fusion Middleware Director. Ashish was a featured speaker at the Forum. In our chat, Ashish laid out the case clearly and concisely for SOA governance. Many...

Tags: Business ROI, General, Vendor Watch

Blog posts 2007-05-24

Citigroup consolidation will be a real test for SOA governance

I just posted some observations on how the best SOA governance may resemble the way the US Constitution is set up, with separation of powers and jurisdictions. I held up Citigroup as a shining example of this thinking, as they have an SOA governance structure set up with a "national"...

Tags: Business ROI, General, Case Studies

Blog posts 2007-04-10

Is the US government a good model for SOA governance?

Ive been meaning to surface one of Dana Gardners latest SOA BriefingsDirect podcasts, in which we were joined by Miko Matsumura, VP of marketing for webMethods (now Software AG/webMethods of course). Miko has a gift for translating complex SOA topics into mentally tangible metaphors, and the chat turned to an...

Tags: Web Services, General, Business ROI

Blog posts 2007-04-09

Additional Resources

Live Webcast: Turbo-charge your SOA

While the value proposition of SOA is no longer the question, achieving maximum returns on SOA investments remains an art. In the new release of the SOA Suite (11g), Oracle has delivered the next generation SOA platform that greatly simplifies the development, deployment, management and monitoring of service-oriented architectures,...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Webcast, SOA, Dave, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

Webcasts 2009-11-24

Conference alert: let's make SOA work for a living

Welcome to Service Oriented Architecture, Phase 2. It's bigger, It's badder, it's all business.  None of this namby-pamby JBOWs stuff. None of these SOAPY-REST tantrums. SOA is all grown up now, and it's time it starts earning the bacon. I am serving as conference chair and...

Tags: SOA, Conference, Dave Linthicum, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-10-15

News to know: Amazon; Yahoo-Microsoft; Wireless carrier exclusivity; YouTube; Oracle; HP-IBRIX

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Amazon gets bullied, pulls purchased e-books from Kindles Dana Blankenhorn: Amazon uses 1984 to free e-books...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Andrew Nusca, Mary Jo Foley, YouTube Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Wireless, Brammo, GlassHouse Service, Microsoft Windows 7, FireWire, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Smart Phones, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-07-20

SOA services still too constrained by applications they represent

It almost seemed as if the whole bottom-up versus top-down argument for SOA had been settled, once and for all. The best approach from now on would be bottom-up, with some middle-out, or something like that. None of this "big bang" stuff. Business units will build focused, ROI-generating projects which...

Tags: SOA, Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-06-26

Do CEOs *really* care about IT?

Do CEOs *really* care about IT?Does anybody really care about anything?Does IT really care about the CEO's?Most IT personnel have no business...sense or training. They want to do IT for the sake of IT. They don't realize that the only reason for IT is the business it is supporting, or...

Tags: Strategy, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-05-20

Justifying SOA: 12 key metrics to keep tabs on

I've had a great discussion going on over at the ebizQ site concerning the importance of measurement to SOA success. (Additional discussion is also taking place in an open forum at ebizQ.) Loraine Lawson joined the discussion, and did a stellar job of summarizing some of the...

Tags: ROI, SOA, Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Roi/Tco, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-04-25

Bull market for SOA emerges -- or should that be Red Bull market?

Dave Linthicum really has a way with expressions, and I can relate to his latest admonition -- forget the endless hype and discussion around SOA and cloud computing, and just sling down a few Red Bulls and start rocking and rolling. I, too, am getting tired, just...

Tags: SOA, Dave, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-04-08

SOA adoption trends -- what the data tells us

In response to a recent post that talked about corporate success rates with SOA, a reader issued a challenge to show the numbers behind SOA adoption. So, here is a summary of significant surveys -- a recap from previous posts -- on SOA adoption that have been conducted over the...

Tags: SOA, Survey, Loraine, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-03-12

Eight ways to get developers on board with SOA governance

Does ramming SOA down the development organization help the cause of service orientation? Of course not. But, in a recent article, Robert Schneider observes that many companies have taken this tact, attempting to coax developers to adopt SOA practices with little or no input, guidance, or training. ...

Tags: Developer, Board, SOA, SOA Governance, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-03-03

'Business-IT alignment' is dead... whatever it was

Long the subject of countless articles, blogs, and seminars: Do IT folks "get" the business? How do we achieve "business-IT alignment"? Perhaps its time to put this tired argument to rest. IT folks not only "get" the business, they are the business. The business...

Tags: Information Technology, Business, Fred Cummins, Strategy, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Management, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-02-26

Five ways in which SOA can teach Web 2.0 a thing or two

"Here we go again. We've heard it all before: A new technology comes along and then suddenly everything we've ever done with any older technologies is obsolete and will go away. At first glance, the new Web 2.0 technologies appear to follow this pattern. Hardcore proponents of these technologies will...

Tags: Web, SOA, Kyle, Web 2.0, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Channel Management, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Internet, Software, Marketing, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-02-05

BriefingsDirect analysts discuss Service Oriented Communications, debate how dead SOA really is

Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Additional underwriting by TIBCO Software. Special offer: Download a free, supported 30-day trial of Active Endpoint's ActiveVOS at www.activevos.com/insight. Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition,...

Tags: Communication, SOA, Service, Architecture, SOC, Communications Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-01-26

Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature

There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...

Tags: Dion Hinchcliffe, Itasca, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, Mashup, Mashup Exchange, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Serena, SnapLogic, Web

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Web 2.0 success stories driving WOA and informing SOA

The striking contrast between the stories that we've been hearing lately about the slow going of SOA initiatives in the enterprise and the vibrant and rapidly growing ecosystems similar to them on the consumer Web has been generating a lot of debate and discussion in the enterprise IT community recently....

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, SOA, Organization, Enterprise, WOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Channel Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-04-17

Time for a 'stimulus package' for SOA?

Is it time to retrench and get SOA back to basics? Some discussions taking place at this week's Open Group Enterprise Architecture conference reflect growing concern that SOA efforts have stalled, or that SOA is now in a funk. Is it time for a shot of new energy or funding?...

Tags: Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-01-28

12 predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2008

The worlds of SOA, SaaS, and Web 2.0 have been swirling around each other for a couple of years now and in 2008 we'll finally see these gel into a practical, modern vision of next generation enterprises. And a variety of forces are coming together to make 2008 the...

Tags: Social Networking, Web, Application, Software-as-a-service, AJAX, Information Technology, SOA, Organization, Enterprise, Mashup, Web-orientation, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web 2.0, Channel Management, Web Services, Software As A Service (SaaS), Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Marketing, Emerging Technologies, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-01-03

Five great unsolved mysteries of SOA

There's a lot of mystery still surrounding service-oriented architecture. Many people -- even in IT -- say they don't fully understand what it can do, or how to go about building one. For a subject that is being hyped to incredible levels by vendors and analysts, there is precious little...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2007-12-18