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Time to get bullish on SOA, IT, and the economy

Times of turmoil always equate to times of new opportunity. As I've said before time and again, the current rough-and-tumble economy is really a time for SOA -- and information technology in general -- to shine, to prove their mettle. Yes, I am well aware of the...

Tags: Enterprise Software, Harvard, IBM Corp., Information Technology, Joe McKendrick, Management, Middleware, Sandy Carter, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), SOA, Software, Strategy, Web Services

Blog posts 2009-03-08

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SOA Consortium confab emits green glow

Jack Vaughan reports in SearchSOA that "green" was the color du jour at the recent SOA Consortium confab in Washington. IBM's Sandy Carter pointed out that economic conditions are causing businesses to take a harder look at the efficiencies of their processes. A byproduct of that scrutiny...

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

Blog posts 2009-03-26

As SOA hype turns five, IBM turns to Smart SOA Social Network to bind communities of users

The global WebSphere ecology has trooped to Las Vegas this week for the IBM Impact 2008 conference, with a kick-off rally of sorts in the MGM Grand arena this morning. I saw Fleetwood Mac here at a Comdex, must have been 12 years ago. IBM has sure...

Tags: SOA, IBM Corp., WebSphere Ecology, PT, Smart SOA Social Network, Lotus Connections, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-04-07

Is SOA still of value if nothing gets reused? How about if everything gets reused?

What if you built a service-oriented architecture and nothing got reused? Is it still of value to the business, or is it a flop? Reuse may be the means, but not the end Ask many experts, and the answer will be a straightforward, yes,...

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

Blog posts 2008-03-04

Which will kill SOA fastest: no money or no skills?

Which one of the following will kill SOA projects faster this year? Lack of money, or Lack of skills? Two separate articles out this week talk about double-trouble for SOA in 2008. Anne Thomas Manes, analyst with Burton...

Tags: Information Technology, SOA, IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-01-31

Taking the 'complex' out of complex event processing

Complex event processing CEP has been getting a lot of attention as of late, and is seen as the next stage of evolution for SOA projects. Now it has the big vendors -- including IBM -- promoting it. How big will business event processing get? ...

Tags: IBM WebSphere, IBM Corp., BEP, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-01-23

Web 2.0 gets equal billing with SOA in new IBM book

IBMs SOA guru, Sandy Carter, has just published a great advocacy book on why and how and where businesses need SOA, covering a lot of the bases of business thinking.Interestingly, she also devotes a chapter to Web 2.0 (wikis, mashups, collaboration). In fact, the title of the book, The New...

Tags: General, Business ROI, Vendor Watch

Blog posts 2007-02-27

Foster growth, business flexibility, and innovation within your company with these guiding principles

In some ways, today's business environment parallels that of the Internet era, where in the rush to embrace the Internet and to get a competitive edge, companies have became preoccupied with e-commerce, sometimes to the detriment of larger concerns. Similarly, many businesses today are rushing to adopt emerging...

Tags: Innovation, Business Flexibility, SOA, IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software

Book chapters 2007-02-27

IBM sprinkles 'holy water' on SOA governance concept

A few years back, I spoke to the CEO of a small vendor that was competing directly with IBM with a client/server interface product. I asked him if he was worried about having the computer giant eat his lunch, to which he replied, no. This wasn't just marketing bravado;...

Tags: IBM Corp., SOA

Blog posts 2006-03-13

Service-Oriented Architecture -- Simplified

IBM WebSphere Vice-President Sandy Carter talks with IBM's David Poole about the power of Service-Oriented Architecture SOA. Discover how it can help your business reduce costs, gain greater flexibility, uncover new business value, and become more competitive.

Tags: SOA, IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

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