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- SOA's squishy paybacks revisited
- A couple of years back, I posted some observations on the issues around SOA payback. Some analysts still say there has been little to no payback from these efforts. Since SOA payback is still such a raw and confusing issue, here is an updated reprise of that post: ...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Payback, SOA, Service, Business Agility, David Linthicum, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-07-17
- Last mile
- The most challenging aspect of service-oriented architecture is the final connection to existing applications and systems. Exposing your enterprise systems and managing the necessary linkages has been dubbed "the last mile problem" by software integration specialist David Linthicum. In order to effectively address the last mile problem, Linthicum encourages SOA...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, SOA, David Linthicum
- Blog posts 2004-12-14
Additional Resources
- SOA's support network
- David Linthicum counterbalanced last week's downbeat assessment on the things killing SOA with five reasons to be optimistic about service orienting (that's the spirit). Very notably, Dave credits enlightened CTOs/CIOs and CEOs with seeing SOA through the swamps of skepticism. As he observed, "CTOs (or those that...
- Tags: Network, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-12-11
- Selling SOA: Stating the obvious
- Successful IT projects, including Service-Oriented Architecture SOA initiatives, begin with a clear rationale designed to help an organization solve specific business or technology problems. Practitioners frequently ignore this obvious point, which causes many failed projects. With this in mind, I had mixed reactions...
- Tags: SOA, David, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- 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
- News to know: Ubuntu; Firefox 3; RIM; CTIA
- Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is Ubuntu becoming the generic Linux distro? Paula Rooney: Firefox 3 Beta 5 released, RC1 Freezes April 8 Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 - Fastest browser yet! Release notes Larry...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Research In Motion Ltd., Mozilla Firefox, Mobile, Network, SAP AG, CTIA, Data Centers, Cellular Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- Analyst: four SOA consulting red flags that spell trouble
- ZapThink's David Linthicum, who nailed the SOA-business alignment problem so well at last week's Open Group's Enterprise Architecture forum, points to another matter creating headaches for organizations: consultants offering expensive "SOA" solutions that end up being far less than promised. Consultants have a long proud history of...
- Tags: ZapThink LLC, Consultant, SOA, Consulting, Dave, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-02-04
- Time for a 'stimulus package' for SOA?
- Time for a 'stimulus package' for SOA?Or, let it die a quiet death.Sorry, I see almost no value in it. Other than keeping IT employed.If all you have a is a hammer...As David Linthicum points out, you don't apply SOA to every problem, just because that's the tool du...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, stimulus
- Discussion threads 2008-01-29
- 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
- News to know: Wither desktop OS; Mozilla naps on flaw; iPhone stats due; YouTube politics
- Notable headlines:David Berlind: By 2010, will Windows ‘Seven’ or any desktop OS really matter? Mary Jo Foley: Drawing more Microsoft roadmaps. Ryan Stewart: The desktop OS will still matter, just not which one. Techmeme.Ryan Naraine: Mozilla caught napping on URL protocol handling flaw.Larry Dignan: Apple's third quarter: All eyes on...
- Tags: General, News to know
- Blog posts 2007-07-24
- BPEL bopped, for the umpteenth time
- The world has been having a love/hate relationship with BPEL -- Business Process Execution Language. It is seen as the glue that will make all the moving parts of SOA work together, but often criticized as laden with vendor extensions and lacking flexibility. BPEL 1.1 never...
- Tags: BPEL
- Blog posts 2006-09-29
- SOA adoption: who pays? who reuses?
- Listen to many vendors and analysts, and you can be forgiven for thinking that everyone and their dog is now service-enabled. SOA is not a finished project that gets wrapped up in a bow after six months -- SOA is a living, breathing, ongoing...
- Tags: SOA
- Blog posts 2006-07-23
- Long-term SOA payback tough to predict
- Short-term, measuring SOA payback is relatively straightforward. A company saves x amount of dollars by not having to reinvent a service for a new application. But the big payback happens gradually, over the years, through business gains and agility. Capturing this kind of data is, well, not so straightforward....
- Tags: SOA
- Blog posts 2006-07-04
- When does SOA stop being worthwhile?
- In one his latest posts, David Linthicum asks a very good question that everyone will need to think about: When building a SOA, how do you know when you're done? As with all things, the return is greatest when you start out, reaches some type of crescendo, then falls...
- Tags: Value at Risk, SOA
- Blog posts 2006-06-19
- Using SaaS and Web 2.0 for business automation
- I've been spending a lot of time lately looking at solutions for automated business processes that are based on the online, low-barrier, and highly collaborative worlds of SaaS and Web 2.0. Primarily, this is part of my exploration of using Web 2.0 in the enterprise, sometimes called Enterprise...
- Tags: Rearden Commerce, business process, Web, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-05-13
- ESBs: fly in the SOA soup?
- My recent post on the worthiness of enterprise service buses kicked off some interesting reactions within the blogosphere. Loek Bakker, for one, equates the life of an ESB with that of a "one-day fly," which is hatched and dies within a very, very short time period. (ROTFL, Loek!) ...
- Tags: Enterprise Service Bus
- Blog posts 2006-03-03
- Does ROI begat ROI, or smoke and mirrors?
- For every IT project of any size, ROI has been the guiding force of cost justification. In a recent article in InfoWorld, however, the unthinkable question is asked: 'Does ROI matter?'Over the years, I have spoken to many IT managers and CIOs, and, frankly, many have not had the hard...
- Tags: information technology, ROI
- Blog posts 2006-02-22
- UDDI: policy enforcer or dead parrot?
- Mercury Interactive's announcement that it was buying SOA vendor Systinet has stirred some mixed reactions from the industry. Some eyebrows were raised by the fact that Mercury was also recently delisted from the Nasdaq stock exchange. Mercury apparently blames the delisting on a failure to file appropriate financial statements by...
- Tags: Systinet Corp., UDDI
- Blog posts 2006-01-10
- 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
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