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Observations: what's moving the SOA market these days

I just had the chance to catch up with MomentumSI's Jeff Schneider while he was up in the Princeton, NJ, area. MomentumSI does a lot of consulting and integration work for SOA projects in organizations across the country, so Jeff's practice is a good bellwether for what's on the minds...

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

Blog posts 2008-06-08

I found a Microsoft WSDL and all I got was this lousy T-shirt

This is too good to pass up. Jeff Schneider, president of MomentumSI, has posted what he calls "The Great Microsoft WSDL Hunt." Enabling software with Web Services Description Language is perhaps one of the most basic aspects of SOA-enabling applications. According to Schneider, "over the last five-plus years, Microsoft has...

Tags: WSDL, Jeff Schneider

Blog posts 2006-01-30

BOA constricts SOA debate?

I love this phrase -- a word of warning about the perils of the "Blog Oriented Architecture" as relayed by Momentum's Jeff Schneider. The point is that some in the industry are prematurely pronouncing SOAP's demise. (We've been tracking this rancorous debate -- SOAP vs. REST -- in this...

Tags: Jeff Schneider

Blog posts 2005-04-03

Joe Developer speaks out on SOA

Jeff Schneider, CEO of Momentum Software, recently went out to the field and recounts what he heard from the corporate development community about service-oriented architecture in his latest blog entry.He found a "huge gap between leadership and worker-bees" in terms of understanding exactly what moving to an SOA entails. While...

Tags: SOA, Jeff Schneider

Blog posts 2005-02-01

Additional Resources

Yahoo confirms exec departure

Yahoo on Monday confirmed that Scott Moore, a senior vice president at the company, is leaving "to pursue other opportunities." Yahoo confirmed Moore's departure in a statement. Last week, Moore was at PaidContent.org's Future of Business Media conference talking up Yahoo Finance--not that he said much--and the...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., BoomTown, Portals, Financial Accounting, Web Technology, Internet, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-03

Progress makes another SOA acquisition: Mindreef

Progress Software's announcement that it had acquired IONA Technologies earlier this week was big news, but the vendor didn't stop there. In another acquisition that almost seems to have slipped under the radar, Progress also has acquired Mindreef, provider of SOA service validation and testing tools, as announced here at...

Tags: Acquisition, Progress Software Corp., SOA, Mindreef, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-06-26

JBOGS - Just a Bunch of Governed Services

What's the next step up from JBOWS Just a Bunch of Web Services? Immediate evolution to full-functioning SOA? Such a leap may be too idealistic, and there are a couple of levels on the way. Jeff Schneider took a good look at the JBOWS (just a Bunch...

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

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Another view: SOA opening up 'can of worms' in organizations

SOA is a journey. A long journey. Bring several changes of clothes. Are organizations really ready to throw out manual processes and standardize? Back in December, reported here in this blogsite, Oracle's Larry Ellison admitted as much, saying it will probably be 10-20 years...

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

Blog posts 2008-02-25

Eight reasons SaaS will surge in 2008

The coming year is going to be a pivotal one for anyone involved in software-as-a-service. For everyone else, it's going to be the year when SaaS becomes impossible to ignore. Here's why. It's all about services. I'll start my list by repeating the prediction I made at...

Tags: Web, Software-as-a-service, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-01-02

Other views: Don't be so fast to declare 'Enterprise SOA' DOA

Two industry movers and shakers, whose opinions I value greatly, have called me on the carpet for my recent post on the de-emphasizing of 'Enterprise' SOA. (See "Enterprise SOA falls out of favor.") There's no point in waiting for everyone's approval to start SOA ...

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

Blog posts 2007-10-24

Is 'SOA business case' a paradox?

Is there really such a thing as an "SOA business case," or is it a paradox? In presenting a business case, the three letters "SOA" probably shouldn't even be mentioned. However, SOA inevitably results in a bump in costs (at least for the short-term) that needs to...

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

Blog posts 2007-10-03

IT may carry the water for SOA for some time to come

IT may carry the water for SOA for some time to comeI.T. and I.T. AlignmentJoe,I'm sticking to my line - SOA is about aligning I.T. with itself. See:http://schneider.blogspot.com/2007/09/using-soa-to-align-it-with-itself.htmlJeff

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Strategy, Web services, information technology, SOA

Discussion threads 2007-09-24

FUDGE: Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt about Governance in the Enterprise

Should project teams be rewarded for using shared SOA-compliant services? Or is it more effective to punish those who dont? I had the opportunity to sit in on InfoWorlds SOA Executive Forum, taking place in New York this week. An interesting thread of discussion coming from the conference was concern...

Tags: General, Business ROI

Blog posts 2006-11-08

Summer 2006: What's hot, what's not in SOA

It's 100-plus degrees here in the Northeast today, so I was immediately drawn to Jeff Schneider's recent posting on what he sees as "hot" and "what's not" in the world of SOA these days. Jeff notes the following trends: Hot: Business-driven SOA Not: IT doing SOA without business...

Tags: SOA, HoT

Blog posts 2006-08-02

SOA first steps

I just got back from New York where I spoke twice at the SOA Executive Forum. I moderated a panel on SOA Governance that was packed. This always surprises me since governance is one of those topics that can really make people yawn, but people seem genuinely concerned about...

Tags: SOA

Blog posts 2006-05-17

Making use of the world-wide services cornucopia

With heavy, rigid, and too technical methods for weaving together systems and processes seemingly on their way out, it's sometimes easy to forget there are many inherent compexities in connecting systems to each other. But one of the promising concepts of Web 2.0 is the idea...

Tags: BPM

Blog posts 2006-02-11

Of software ecosystems, symbiosis and co-innovation

What is a business without a vibrant ecosystem? Barren and destined for oblivion. At least that's how enterprise software companies seem to think based on all the ecosystems some mutually beneficial and others parasitic or amensalist. It's beyond having an efficient supply chain a kind of ecosystem to flatten costs,...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, software

Blog posts 2005-09-28

The great Web 2.0 application (s)mash-up

There are two opposing views of the direction enterprise applications are moving in. One view says that enterprises want "one throat to choke, one stack to manage," and thus the trend is for ever greater consolidation on a dwindling number of giant vendors. The opposite view was presented at a...

Tags: Rearden Commerce, Web, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2005-09-21

'SOA is not ERP'

A reader provided some thoughtful insights to my recent post on whether SOA projects may exceed ERP systems in pain and suffering. I wanted to bring this out and share his thoughts with you. In the posting, I quoted Momentum's Jeff Schneider, who said that building an SOA requires...

Tags: SOA, ERP

Blog posts 2005-06-15

SOA=ERP but worse: fair analogy?

Many CIOs and IT managers are still smarting from the pain of enterprise resource planning ERP system rollouts -- multi-million-dollar megaprojects that required tearing up processes across the enterprise in an effort to automate. Some have been outright disasters, and many others have simply been money pits.Jeff Schneider of...

Tags: SOA, pits.Jeff Schneider, ERP

Blog posts 2005-06-14