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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

Service Oriented Architecture on $10 a day

Chicken Little, meet SOA by Joe McKendrick

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

Blog posts 2008-10-21

Who should lead SOA? Enterprise architects or business analysts?

The debate for the heart of the enterprise intensifies -- EA vs. EA, EA vs. BA by Joe McKendrick

Tags: Business Analyst, Electronic Arts Inc., SOA, Ron Schmelzer, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Analyst: Microsoft 'tone deaf' about SOA

Microsoft defines SOA as integration, not broader Enterprise Architecture by Joe McKendrick

Tags: SOA, Microsoft Corp., Ron Schmelzer, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-07-01

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Panel: too much to lose by moving to generic services and cloud?

Do we put competitive advantage at risk when moving to generic services? Or perhaps the whole scenario of enterprise IT being edged out by the cloud is overblown? Consider the the mainframe, as Dana Gardner recently put it: "In the early 1990s, IT pundits, and my former boss Stewart...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Information Technology, SOA, Cloud, Jim, BBrad, Business Intelligence, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Mainframes, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Web Services, Management, Servers, Hardware, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Experts convene to analyze SOA's vital signs

Ron Schmelzer passed this on to me: he and the ZapThink crew are hosting an SOA confab next week in Boston that plays off the "SOA is Dead" theme we've been hearing so much about, titled "SOA: The Night of the Living Dead." And appropriately, Anne Thomas...

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

Blog posts 2009-07-16

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

Cloud? SOA? BPM? Call it part of the era of 'transparent computing'

"We like to self-medicate in IT. We have these chronic problems that we seem to be continuously trying to solve. They're the same problems: getting systems to talk to each other, to extract information, and to make it all work. We try one drug after the other and they provide...

Tags: Era, BPM, Information Technology, SOA, Computing, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Operational Planning, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Management, Business Operations, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-05-27

SOA's final frontier: Can we, should we, service-orient batch processing?

While analysts and pundits have been talking about the real-time enterprise for almost a decade now, many organizations still rely on batch processing to move data between applications. And that's okay.  In fact, there's still a place for batch processing within the SOA world. ...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Data Centers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-02-18

New Website for 'the architecture formerly known as SOA'

Who said SOA types can't be the life of the party. Miko Matsumura, curator of the SOA Center blogsite, has just renamed his site the Whatever-you-want-to-call-it Center, at  http://whatevercenter.com. This was done in reaction to Anne Thomas Manes' New Year's proclamation that "SOA [as we have known...

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

Blog posts 2009-01-07

What we will want from our enterprise architects in 2009

As observed in previous posts, employment prospects for enterprise architects remain bullish, since many organizations are challenged with integration and IT-business alignment. Over at the Informatica Perspectives site, I posted a piece spotlighting the five key qualities to look for in an enterprise architect, circa 2009. Here...

Tags: Enterprise Architect, Research & Development, Business Operations, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-11-25

ZapThink's Linthicum takes reins as CEO of data services provider StrikeIron

Service Oriented Architecture SOA consultant and author Dave Linthicum has taken over as CEO at data services provider StrikeIron, just six months after Linthicum sold his consulting firm to and became a managing partner of SOA analysis firm ZapThink. On April 2, Linthicum was identified as CEO...

Tags: Data Service, StrikeIron, ZapThink LLC, CEO, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Channel Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-04-02

The best way to sell SOA? Try Web 2.0 techniques

There's no question that SOA has been a tough sell in many organizations. Conversely, the response to Web 2.0 has been almost a cult-like following -- many end users can't get enough of these online tools. SOA, Web 2.0's boring cousin How can SOA...

Tags: Technique, Web, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web 2.0, Web Services, Middleware, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Marketing, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-03-26

In a down economy, expect subprime SOAs to suffer

If the economy languishes as media pundits say it will, we may see a story of two SOAs. Those that are making a difference to the business and will continue to do so, and those that I'll classify as 'subprime SOAs' that will quickly have their oxygen cut off if...

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

Blog posts 2008-03-24

Analyst: why even the best SOAs are 'stalling'

"It has become clear to me that SOA is not working in most organizations." -Anne Thomas Manes Many SOAs are 'stunningly beautiful infrastructures,' but have yet to deliver value When Anne talks, people listen. That's why this line in her latest blog...

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

Blog posts 2008-03-16

Europe leads with SOA: if so, why?

John Michelsen of iTKO asked an interesting question in his most recent post: "Why does SOA seem to be moving forward a little faster in Europe than in North America?" Is Europe better with architecture? This first thought that comes to mind is whether...

Tags: Enterprise Software, Europe, Joe McKendrick, Middleware, Sector, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), SOA, Software, Web Services, ZapThink LLC

Blog posts 2008-01-15

Here's the number one SOA post in 2007

IT hearts SOA, right? The most popular post in terms of traffic for this SOA blogsite in 2007 was one that provided a contrarian view to the most closely held belief around SOA: the view that IT is out there alone, killing itself trying to convince the...

Tags: Enterprise Software, Information Technology, Joe McKendrick, Middleware, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), SOA, Software, Web Services, ZapThink LLC

Blog posts 2007-12-21

Enterprise SOA concept falls out of favor

The movement toward smaller, focused SOA efforts -- and away from big, enterprisey SOA -- seems to have been gaining a lot of momentum as of late. Some SOA services may surface at the enterprise level, but most will serve focused, local business needs. And that's okay....

Tags: SOA, Bottom Line, Enterprise, SOA-is-all-about-the-enterprise Mindset, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2007-10-22

Is SOA a code word for 'downsize'?

It's one of those paradoxes of business in the 21st century: SOA growth may be hampered by skills shortages, but at the same time, there is a real fear that SOA may take away jobs as well. SearchWebServices' Rich Seeley reports that one of the topics that...

Tags: SOA, IBM Corp., Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2007-09-08

SOA analyst mashup...

There are mergers and acquisitions aplenty in the SOA market, but it's not often you get to see your analyst chums merge their collective brainpower together into a single entity. Congratulations to fellow SOA soothsayer Dave Linthicum on his firm's recent acquisition by ZapThink. Dave will be...

Tags: Acquisition, SOA, Mashup, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2007-09-06