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Study: Only one out of five SOA efforts bearing fruit

Study: Only one out of five SOA efforts bearing fruitSO at AA level is still SOAI fully appreciate Burton Group's view that SO is best applied to business/enterprise architecture. That's where the biggest payoff is ostensibly to be found."The service is only built for one application and it's never going...

Tags: application architecture, Burton Group, emperor, mentality, silo, SOA, SOA Efforts, Web service

Discussion threads 2008-07-09

Another view: could 'guerrilla SOA' add to the tangle?

There's been no shortage of push and pull lately between those wanting to see smaller, grassroots SOA efforts versus those advocating more calculated enterprise designs. My colleague from the SOA Insights podcasts, Tony Baer, said while he agrees with the concept of "Guerrilla SOA" discussed here...

Tags: SOA, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2007-09-03

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Analyst: seven ways to get SOA back on track

Seven 'fixes' for struggling SOA efforts by Joe McKendrick

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

Blog posts 2009-11-02

SOA, event driven architecture will be in smart systems everywhere

In recent years, we've been hearing a lot about the rise of event-driven architecture EDA, and how this will factor into SOA efforts. This combination may form the foundation of emerging "smart systems." CalTech's Dr. K. Mani Chandy, one of the pioneers of EDA, and author of...

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

Blog posts 2009-09-29

News to know: Dell; Xerox, Android, NewEgg, Win7, Windows Mobile,

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. Andrew Nusca: Dell Latitude Z 16" thin-and-light revealed; Lamborghini angles hide boardroom muscle Gallery: Hands on with the Dell...

Tags: Xerox Corp., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Storage, Andrew Nusca, Newegg.com, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Dell Latitude, EC, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2009-09-29

News to know: Palm ads; Microhoo SEC filing; U.S. Marines; Bing; Skype; Clunkers

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. Larry Dignan: Palm Pre's creepy ads: They worked. You're still talking about them Andrew Nusca: Palm's creepy Pre ads:...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Advertisement, SEC Filing, Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Palm Pre, Microsoft Windows, Projectors, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Components, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2009-08-05

SOA's 'blind spot' -- where's the timely and trusted data? (2)

Last week, I reported on Ash Parikh's discussion on data being the missing link in SOA efforts. Companies are missing the effective establishment of data services that assure the information flowing through SOA-enabled applications is timely and accurate. Dave Linthicum also zeros in on this...

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

Blog posts 2009-07-27

TIBCO joins governance ecology support with HP's SOA lifecycle software

We should expect to see more governance ecology cooperation like this one. And these same vendors should support standards and collaboration efforts like the Jericho Forum and Cloud Security Alliance, if the promise of cloud computing is to be realized. by Dana Gardner

Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Collaboration, Groupware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-07-21

SOA's squishy paybacks revisited

A couple of years back, I posted some observations on the issues around SOA payback. Some analysts still say there has been little to no payback from these efforts.  Since SOA payback is still such a raw and confusing issue, here is an updated reprise of that post: ...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Payback, SOA, Service, Business Agility, David Linthicum, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-07-17

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

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

Get ready for Oracle's 100 days of press releases aka innovation

It's a while since I read Bruce Richardson, chief research officer at AMR but a couple of his most recent posts rang bells with me. The first: Who Drives Software Innovation? The “Best-of-Breed vs. Giants” Debate raises a donkey's year old discussion where he concludes: Call me cynical, but...

Tags: Innovation, Oracle Corp., Bruce, Simon Wardley, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Categorizing the SaaS Vendors

Can't tell the players without a program! I get a couple of vendor briefings a week from SaaS vendors or their wanna-be cousins. As I listen to the various spins and pitches, it occurs to me that we need a new lexicon for these firms. Here’s my...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer

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

Gartner: Nine ways to measure SOA success

Why do we do SOA? My pal Steve Swoyer just published a piece over at Visual Studio surfacing a Gartner observation that many companies may have fallen into a "herd mentality" when it comes to SOA. That is, they do SOA because everyone else seems to be...

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

Blog posts 2009-06-05

Five reasons why people mistrust SOA

Five reasons why people mistrust SOAPoint 5 is......spot on."...the end-goal of any efforts should not be to simply ?build an SOA.?"Keep the primary focus on the business objectives. The style with which they are approached is important too but it is not *the* important thing.The 1st reason should be......the buzzwordification...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Point 5, SOA

Discussion threads 2009-06-02

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

Manes: no bones about it, 'SOA' (as we knew it) is still dead

"I never intended to say that organizations shouldn't do SOA (they MUST!), but SOA teams are hard pressed to get funding for their efforts unless they focus on delivering services that generate measurable business value." - Anne Thomas Manes Anne Thomas Manes...

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

Blog posts 2009-05-26

Study: two out of five SOA adopters don't measure value

Are enough of us measuring SOA? Apparently, there's more work to be done in this area. And once we measure, we'll better understand what we're getting out of SOA. According to a recent survey of UK-based companies out of Gartner, 40% of companies with SOA-based methodologies do...

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

Blog posts 2009-05-17

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