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Does 'SOA lifecycle management' say it better than 'SOA governance'?

Oh what a difference five years makes. Back in the good old days, 2002-03, IT people at the time our ancestors were fascinated with this new approach called "service oriented architecture," which would make integration faster and cheaper and less onerous. Now that many companies have services in production, they...

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

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Analogy: WOA treats symptoms, but SOA the cure for IT complexity

"There is a very specific disease of Enterprise IT that SOA cures. It cures chronic ESSD, or Enterprise Software Stupidity Disease." Leave it to Miko Matsumura Software AG to come up with a clever analogy for all things service-oriented. Miko has been following the WOA-SOA brouhaha I...

Tags: Patient, Information Technology, SOA, Business User, Miko, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Software, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-04-28

SOA and compute clouds point to rethinking data entirely: roles and permissions, not rows and tables

SOA and compute clouds point to rethinking data entirely: roles and permissions, not rows and tablesand Software AG webMethodsI dont know if it's because we are not NASDAQ traded, but it always seems to slip your mind Dana...=)MikoNo, it was intentionalI just don't think you all matter as much as...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Advertising & Promotion, Miko, SOA

Discussion threads 2008-04-15

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

Birds of a feather? More on the awkward SOA-BPM dance

Miko Matsumura weighed in on the recent discussion around the relationship between SOA and business process management BPM, noting that perhaps a good analogy would be a mating dance seen in the wild, versus a dance involving nervous high-school sophomores:"Like the mating dance of the Sand Hill Crane, this...

Tags: SOA, Dance, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2007-08-06

SaaS Opens Up SOA Beyond the Firewall

The convergence of service-oriented architecture and Software as a Service lays open the possibilities of bringing in services from outside the firewall, which can be "snapped" into place within a company's infrastructure. This also means that services a company creates can be introduced to a broader market beyond the firewall.Miko...

Tags: Web Services, Vendor Watch, General, Business ROI

Blog posts 2007-06-04

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

IONA registry product enters the SOA governance fray

IONA registry product enters the SOA governance frayQuestion for you...Dana-Do you think this recent announcement is indicative of a trend toward registry/repositories that are tailored toward a particular platform, with "checkbox" support for registry/repository federation and/or interoperability? Let's face it, probably all of the ESBs, WSMs, and XML gateways...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, registry product, Miko, SOA governance, Systinet Corp., Iona Technologies

Discussion threads 2007-03-26

Start SOA small, miss the big picture?

Okay, let's get it started. But what is the best way to get started with service-oriented architecture -- as small-scale pilot projects that prove themselves and get built out organically, or as a comprehensive, enterprise-scale transformation? I have been dialoging with Infravio’s Miko Matsumura lately on this question. Miko pooh-poohs...

Tags: MiKo, SOA

Blog posts 2006-03-22

Additional Resources

SOA Software acquires respository and governance vendor LogicLibrary

SOA Software, a provider of governance solutions for services-oriented architecture SOA, has acquired LogicLibrary, a leading SOA repository and governance vendor. The acquisition of the Pittsburgh, Pa.-based LogicLibrary by Los Angeles-based SOA Software creates a more comprehensive SOA governance and automation solution, said the companies. The goal...

Tags: Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-12

Can this fish grow legs? What biology can teach us about SOA

I've been following the technology industry for years now, and there's always been talk about a "revolution" or "evolution" underway. I've come to the conclusion that "revolution" has been too extreme of a term to describe most of the paradigm shifts we've seen, which therefore relegates most...

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

Blog posts 2007-11-28

The telephone blame game gone gonzo

When considering IT failures, it's tempting to focus on easy targets such as external software vendors, in-house IT departments, third-party consultants, and so on. However, to gain a more balanced understanding of failure, one must look upstream at the business logic and management case behind failed projects. ...

Tags: Game, Team, Phone, Scenario, Information Technology, Strategy, Team Management, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-11-26

Measuring SOA success

Measuring SOA successOr by measuring TCOTCO can be attained by looking at the total cost of the entropy in your system per http://www.soacenter.com/?p=138If you spend most of your time putting out fires, you have no ability to serve new requirements...Miko

Tags: ROI/TCO, Measuring SOA

Discussion threads 2007-11-25

How is SOA 'governance' different from SOA 'management'?

How is SOA 'governance' different from SOA 'management'?Neologisms Management vs GovernanceWhile I am loathe to add to the stack of neologisms (a fancy new word meaning "fancy new words") and TLAs (a three letter acronym meaning "Three Letter Acronym"), the concept of SOA Governance was coined for a reason.The primary...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA

Discussion threads 2007-11-25

How is SOA 'governance' different from SOA 'management'?

Albert Mavashev, writing in SOA World, asks a very interesting question: Why all the buzz about SOA 'governance,' when simple tried-and-true 'management' would do? "It is interesting to see a new term like 'governance' replacing a good old term like 'management.' In fact, what is the difference between SOA...

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

Blog posts 2007-11-20

Time appears on Oracle's side in increasingly spooky BEA bid

It's getting late, many couples have embraced and moved on to the snug parlor. One pretty but aging player stands on the dance floor, and only one partner so far has stepped onto the parquet with an outstretched hand. As the music winds down, as the richer...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Hard Place, Sales Strategy, Strategic Planning, Sales Force Management, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Sales, Management, Finance, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-10-29

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

Let's face the reality we see on the ground: for the most part, SOA is an IT department thing. But should it be? Of course not -- SOA needs to be owned by the entire organization. But at least for now, IT is doing all the heavy lifting, while the...

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

Blog posts 2007-09-24

SOA registries and the Dilbert complex

SOA registries and the Dilbert complextangible offering... and target buyersJoe,We'll probably have to disagree on the "measure of importance" of registries in moving us from JBOWS to SOA. I must admit, I'm certainly in the minority in placing lower importance on it than other measures. All good stuff.I would like...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, JBOWS, SOA, registry

Discussion threads 2007-08-15

How do we really know when SOA 'fails'?

There's no place to hide when a huge software project hits the skids. Lots of money is invested, but things just don't work. Fingers of blame are pointed in all directions. The business kept on changing the specs for the application. The software was crapware. The vendors acted like schmucks...

Tags: SOA, Failure, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2007-08-13

Another view: avoid bottom-up SOA like the plague

Just the other week, I posted the case for Start-Small SOA, which not only helps enterprise service developers and consumers learn as they go, but also deliver a growing series of incremental wins that will help build a constituency of support.However, not everyone buys into the "start-small SOA" case, especially...

Tags: General, Business ROI

Blog posts 2007-07-07