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Joe McKendrick is an author and independent analyst who tracks the impact of information technology on management and markets. Joe is also SOA community manager for ebizQ, and speaks frequently on Enterprise 2.0 and SOA topics at industry events and Webcasts. He also serves as lead analyst and author of...- more about Joe McKendrick »
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- Oracle's FusionFest: BEA underneath, dogfood, Sun on the horizon
- BEA headlines Oracle FusionFest; Next year, Sun? by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-07-03
- Do we need cloud oriented architecture?
- One of the criticisms leveled at service oriented architecture is that the 'architecture' aspect has often been overlooked. In one of his latest analyses, ZapThink's Ron Schmelzer wonders where architecture fits among all the excitement around cloud computing. "The discussion of architecture has been given short shrift in cloud...
- Tags: Conversation, SOA, Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- Gartner: companies gear up SOA for upcoming economic recovery
- In a recent interview, Gartner's Paolo Malinverno, reflecting on the consultancy's recent Application Development and Integration Summit, said interest in SOA is riding high, despite the recent economic slump. He also added that many companies are aligning their SOA strategies to be ready to go with new systems and business...
- Tags: Recovery, Gartner Inc., SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Are we too impatient with SOA?
- Jack Vaughan recently pondered the fate of major technology initiatives, and wondered if SOA is going down the same path as Grid and object-oriented computing. That is, it took some time for these initiatives to come to fruition, and benefits to be delivered. In the meantime, many grew too impatient...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- Six ways to make SOA services more reusable
- Achieving service reuse is a multi-dimensional problem that ties into technical approaches as well as business governance. In my last post, I surfaced some of JP Morgenthal's concerns about the reusability of services in their current state or statefulness. But there are steps that can be taken...
- Tags: Adapter, SOA, Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- 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
- Survey: Wall Street looks to cloud technology for its next bailout
- Can new technology initiatives help pull Wall Street out of the danger zone? A new survey released by IBM and Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association SIFMA finds that IT budgets are tight on Wall Street, but things are loosening up, and there's going to be plenty of demand for...
- Tags: Wall Street, Survey, Bailout, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- 10 data center paradoxes -- widening area networks; iPhone inspiration (2)
- Last week, I published the first five megatrends reshaping today's data centers, pulled from my latest article in Database Trends & Applications. Here the remaining five of the top 10 shifts, or paradoxes that are turning data centers upside down, rightside up, and many other directions: ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Data Center, Network, Information Technology, Data Center Planner, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Six ways to run SOA as an internal cloud business
- We probably could argue for another 10 years about the ROI of SOA. Is there ROI? If so, why isn't there more of it? How do we measure it? How should SOA be sold to the business? Why won't the business provide more funding? Or, we could...
- Tags: API, SOA, Dion Hinchliffe, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Vendors being pushed into cloud, kicking and screaming?
- Lately, if you have listened to the pronouncements of vendors large and small, they all are enthusiastically embracing cloud computing as the next wave of software and service delivery. However, the Wall Street Journal's Ben Worthen and Justin Scheck have a different take on all this happy...
- Tags: Software, Wall Street Journal, Tools & Techniques, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- Service orienting, one piece at a time
- "Incremental" is perhaps the most important word in the SOA vocabulary. In a recent post, Jack Vaughan reminds us of the case for incremental SOA, backed up by observations from Randy Hefner, Mike Rosen, and the Rolta excellence center. Rolta advises "two-to four-week sprints" for SOA-based projects,...
- Tags: SOA, Rolta, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- SOA economics: addressing 'boundary costs'
- Who's going to pay for this SOA? Often, the costs of handling and processing SOA-based services gets spread all over the map. This has implications as SOAs grow in scale and complexity. Oracle's Dave Chappell discusses the matter of "boundary costs" as part of...
- Tags: XML Document, SOA, Boundary Cost, Application Grid, Dave, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, XML, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-19
- 10 data center paradoxes -- out of complexity comes simplicity
- For every action there is an equally potent reaction, and that is certainly the case in IT developments we've been seeing as of late. Call them paradoxes if you will, and I just published some of them in an article for Database Trends & Applications on the...
- Tags: Data Center, Paradox, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Looking for a few good SOA case studies
- Are you part of a successful SOA deployment, and would like to share some details with the rest of the world? The world wants to hear from you. The SOA Consortium, in conjunction with CIO Magazine, is once again holding it's annual SOA case study competition, and...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- SOA, IT and cloud governance converge into 'total services governance'
- Is it time to govern the cloud? Should it be the same governance we're working so hard to apply to service oriented architecture? These are the questions tackled at Dana Gardner's latest BriefingsDirect analyst podcast, in which I had the opportunity to chime in. (Full transcript available here.) ...
- Tags: Governance, Information Technology, SOA, Service, Ron Schmelzer, David Kelly, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), B2C, Web Services, Strategy, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- SOA drives 'the most important business in the world'
- Quote of the Week: "What first lured me to this industry and has kept me here unapologetically all these years is the notion that information technology is the most important business in the world, that it will continue to bring enormous change to the world,...
- Tags: Business, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- What cloud can learn from SOA, and visa-versa
- New book explores how cloud computing is accelerating SOA adoption by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Why does 'complex event processing' have to be so complex?
- I've always felt that "complex event processing" is a term that scares people away. Perhaps there needs to be a softer way to describe what this thing is -- perhaps just plain old "event processing" will do? Or perhaps "sense and respond, times 100,000"? You don't need...
- Tags: Event, Financial Services, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Why SOA really, really matters in a cloud computing world
- Back in early 2006, I published a piece on the impact of delivering SOA-ready services via online, on-demand venues such as online marketplaces. Here is an update on the piece, revised to meet today's cloud computing realities. Since I wrote the first piece, we have seen many of the principles...
- Tags: On-demand, SOA, Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Web Services, Managed Hosting, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- SOA as 'iTunes for business': interesting analogy
- For quite some time, we have talked about the concept of accessing SOA-ready services through public online marketplaces, and how that could shake up the way we approach IT. We're seeing manifestations of this model through cloud computing. But I wish I could have expressed it the...
- Tags: SOA, Apple iTunes, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
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