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- Policy-based SOA will enable increased business value and agility
- Policy-based SOA is one of Forrester's top 15 enterprise technologies to watch. by Randy Heffner
- Tags: Policy, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Randy Heffner
- Blog posts 2009-11-04
- SOA path: Core business flexibility
- The most interesting path in Forrester's six path SOA framework see previous post is the one that leads to "core business flexibility." As analyst Randy Heffner explains, this path "identifies places where business change is slowed by application delivery schedules and restructures processes, message flows, data structures and application integration...
- Tags: SOA, business flexibility
- Blog posts 2005-05-30
- The new alignment
- The SOA wave -- which promises to embed business processes in code -- will drivetighter alignment between business and IT, according to a recent piece in Optimize Magazine. Citing Forrester Research analyst Randy Heffner, the article makes the case that IT development roles and responsibilities are shifting. "Services define business...
- Tags: information technology
- Blog posts 2005-02-17
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- 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
- Forrester's Randy Heffner: only one percent turned off by SOA so far
- Nailed ItGreat article, providing reassurance that SOA is very much alive and kicking and underscoring the notion that SOA exists at a strategic business level. With regard to approaching SOA from a "service portfolio management" perspective, I'd like to add that ITIL can really help set a nice foundation for...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, ITIL, Middleware, Enterprise software, IT Services, Forrester Research Inc., SOA
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- News to know: Scareware; HP; SAP; Cloud computing
- 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. Dancho Danchev: The ultimate guide to scareware protection Gallery: The ultimate guide to scareware protection 9/11...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Andrew Nusca, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
- Forrester's Randy Heffner: only one percent turned off by SOA so far
- View SOA from a business design perspective, not from a technology perspective by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: SOA, Forrester Research Inc., Perspective, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- Five reasons why people mistrust SOA
- I wanted to surface another astute set of points raised by Randy Heffner in the latest Forrester Research study on SOA adoption patterns. The report overall was pretty bullish on SOA going forward, but also pointed to issues that needed to be addressed. SOA really suffers from...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- Forrester: Only one percent have negative experience with SOA
- A new Forrester Research survey of 2,227 IT executives finds that only one percent of current SOA adopters say they have received little or no benefit from the methodology -- that's right, only one percent. Sixty percent said they have seen some benefits. The survey, conducted while...
- Tags: SOA, Forrester Research Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-05-14
- How SOA and IT are faring in the 'unrecession'
- Rich Seeley, who has been tracking the relationship between the overall economy and IT/SOA in the recent turbulent months, just posted an update on how SOA has been faring through it all. SOA will sink or swim because of SOA, not the economy He...
- Tags: Information Technology, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Something strange in your SOA... who you gonna call?
- In the US presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton's ads have been asking who is the most qualified to be picking up that 3am emergency call. Why is a service malfunctioning? Who knows? When it comes to SOA, who should be picking up those 3am SOA...
- Tags: Team, SOA, Service, Management Solution, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-04-06
- Sluggish economy may spur more, but smaller, SOA projects
- Will 2008 be a year of retrenchment of our expectations of SOA, or will things really take off? There's a debate as to whether a slow economy would help or hurt SOA. It's worth noting that the case for SOA, in tandem with Web services, was forged...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- Analyst: Microsoft Oslo part of 'tectonic shift' to business design
- Microsoft may have been slow getting out the gate with an SOA strategy, but at least one analyst says that Microsoft's "Oslo" strategy represents more than a foray into SOA -- it represents a change in the way business interacts with IT. Microsoft announced Oslo last month,...
- Tags: Oslo, Microsoft Corp., Business Metadata, Software Development, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Web Services, Research & Development, Application Servers, Strategy, Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Software/Web Development, Software, Business Operations, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- Exploring the possibilities of a Web 2.0-SOA marriage
- Are Web 2.0 and SOA soulmates, or are they in two separate universes? I'll be exploring these issues at a panel today Tuesday, entitled SOA and Web 2.0: Mashups, SaaS, and Collaboration: Putting the Pieces Together, which will include fellow ZDNet blogging community activitists Dana Gardner and Phil Wainewright. ...
- Tags: Panel, Web, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web 2.0, Web Services, Middleware, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Marketing, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
- Four SOA myths: Web services, technology, costs, and registry
- My colleague over at ebizQ, Gian Trotta, recently sat down with Randy Heffner of Forrester Research to talk about some of the misconceptions that are sabotaging efforts to build out service-oriented architectures these days. (Link to podcast interview and transcript here.) Some of the leading myths include...
- Tags: Registry, Web, Web Service, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-09-25
- The incredible shrinking SOA vendor pool: good or bad?
- Dave Linthicum, who has been involved in plenty of IT vendor acquisitions, has been keeping tabs on the churning SOA vendor space, and estimates that anywhere between three to four dozen SOA specialty vendors have been acquired in just in the last couple of years. Isnt that a good...
- Tags: Vendor Watch, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- SOA is not above ROI scrutiny, but...
- My latest post on SOA and ROI stirred up some interesting discussion. Should SOA -- which is not a specific technology or project, but an enterprise infrastructure -- be subject to the rigors of ROI? ZDNet colleague Dana Gardner says yes, ROI must be applied to SOA activities, and is...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), ROI/TCO, Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, ROI
- Blog posts 2007-03-21
- Analyst: ROI doesn't apply to SOA
- I like the way Niel Macehiter once summed up the value of ROI calculations, as it relates to SOA or any other IT project: its a formula usually conjectured after the fact to justify expenditures. Cost-justifying SOA is like building a car, then trying to calculate the ROI...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), ROI/TCO, Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, ROI, strategic bet
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- Does SOA have a vanishing point?
- There was a time when the word 'dot' had positive connotations to it. Dot was revolutionary, turning the world upside down, wiping out intermediaries, turning business into seamless electronic transactions across the great global Internet. Sun prided itself on being the 'dot in dot-com.' Of course, more recently, 'dot'...
- Tags: SOA
- Blog posts 2006-08-18
- The great SOA vendor divide: business vs. tech
- SOA has two faces. One is the IT-centric, technical aspects -- such as service-level management, performance monitoring, and security. The other face of SOA is all about the business, which includes application integration and business-level monitoring. This distinction has been identified by Forrester Research's Randy Heffner who separated out the...
- Tags: SOA
- Blog posts 2006-02-28
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