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Quality assurance for SOA requires a different mindset

Quality assurance for SOA requires a different mindsetSOA or ESB - the lines are blurredWhile I agree that SOA does require a different mindset to QA, I don't necessarily agree it's more complex than or as dismal as this article suggest. It's just different - and if done right,...

Tags: Enterprise Service Bus, messaging, QA, Service Orientation, SOA, SOA Principles

Discussion threads 2008-04-09

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SOA Manifesto: Manes explains manifesto's aims

Of the 17 original authors of the SOA Manifesto including yours truly, Anne Thomas Manes was one of the most -- if not the most -- powerful and influential voice shaping the formation of the final document. Anne just posted her analysis of the Manifesto document, which...

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

Blog posts 2009-11-23

EAI: square peg trying to fit into round hole of data integration

Hmm not so sureOkay I jumped over to the detail you posted and I have to say I disagree on several fronts. First SOA solves none of that and neither does a data layer. What solves data integration issues is architecture. Architecture principles such as loose coupling,...

Tags: Middleware, Enterprise software, EAI, Enterprise Service Bus, end up, data integration

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Microsoft: Human error caused critical SMB2 vulnerability

did not explain why the fix was not back-ported to Windows Vista and other That very bad. I was wondering this myself when news broke that Win 7 was not vulnerable.What were they thinking? Fixing a bug and "forgetting" that other versions may actually be vulnerable?Or had they actually recorded...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), SECURITY, Hulu Desktop, Microsoft Corp., critical SMB2 vulnerability, SMB2, SMB2 vulnerability, vulnerability, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

How event driven architecture changes the SOA service flow

Does event driven architecture EDA represent the next phase of SOA?  This is a subject of continuing debate, but Udi Dahan makes the case for EDA as the next logical stage of SOA. In a recent post, he connected the dots between SOA and EDA, suggesting that EDA will...

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

Blog posts 2009-10-14

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: Twitter DMs; New Neutrality; Zimbra; Dell-Perot; Palm; Foursquare

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. Michael Krigsman: Are Twitter direct messages safe? Richard Koman: FCC to announce net neutrality principles ...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Twitter Inc., Information Technology, Palm Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Andrew Nusca, Zimbra, Mary Jo Foley, Net Neutrality, Perot Systems Corp., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Serial ATA, Corporate Law, Web Services, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Business Operations, Management

Blog posts 2009-09-22

Pragmatic new models for enterprise architecture take shape

This is really greatVery articulate and overall wonderful!EA, Emergent Architecture and Optimized Engagement ModelsMr Hinchcliffe,Great post. Id like to point out that our research shows the best way to move to a more responsive, agile and deliberate architect organization is through an active engagement model which employs all 'types' of...

Tags: Business process automation, Operational planning, Strategy, Enterprise software, BPM, Electronic Arts Inc., EA Team, enterprise architecture

Discussion threads 2009-08-12

Point-counterpoint: Is SCA the limit?

There's been a blogstorm swirling around Service Component Architecture SCA, and Loraine Lawson has done a great job of summing up both sides of the discussion. To sum up, there are two points of view on the efficacy of SCA: Anti-SCA: "SCA is heavily being driven...

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

Blog posts 2009-07-29

In praise of 'slow IT'

Common wisdom says that an engine running in overdrive for an extended period of time will overheat and break down. People driving themselves too fast and hard risk breakdowns or health problems. David Sprott recently posted an interesting piece on the need to slow down the blistering...

Tags: Pace, Information Technology, David, Strategy, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-07-12

Why SOA really, really matters in a cloud computing world

Back in early 2006, I published a piece on the impact of delivering SOA-ready services via online, on-demand venues such as online marketplaces. Here is an update on the piece, revised to meet today's cloud computing realities. Since I wrote the first piece, we have seen many of the principles...

Tags: On-demand, SOA, Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Web Services, Managed Hosting, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-06-10

Is SOA governance also its own silo?

The purpose of SOA governance is to cut across all the silos and get all the business on the same page, using the same services. However, my chum Tony Baer over at Ovum is seeing evidence that organizations may be spawning a brand-new silo in the process...

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

Blog posts 2009-06-08

Ten HBIs (half baked ideas) on SOA-cloud convergence

Ten HBIs half baked ideas on SOA-cloud convergenceEconomics of the new SOA modelIn April, we presented a webinar on this very topic. http://www.cirrhus9.com/webinars-3.html (if you're interested in viewing it)It's extremely interesting to see how this is falling into place. A lot of the emerging Cloud technologies, and subsequent applications,...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, WOA, SOA, HBI, baked idea, SOA-cloud convergence, SOA-cloud

Discussion threads 2009-06-04

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

Study: two out of five SOA adopters don't measure valueHow does this compare to other adoptions?Are the numbers from this survey similar to other surveys that measured the adoption of other approaches? Is 2 out of 5 bad? Or par for the course? And what conclusions are to be drawn...

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

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

SOA's new mission: move workloads in and out of the cloud

Lori MacVittie recently channeled Gartner's Daryl "G-Man" Plummer in an analysis of the converging roles of SOA and cloud computing. Essentially, the challenge with cloud computing comes along when you want to move workloads in and out of the cloud, versus entire applications. And Lori and Daryl...

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

Blog posts 2009-05-15

'SOA is Dead' debate lives on and on

I didn't see the brilliant analyst Anne Thomas Manes at either of this week's IBM IMPACT or Software AG's SOA Summit events, but boy, was she there in spirit. The topic still on everybody's minds and lips at both events was Anne's pronouncement at the beginning of the year that...

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

Blog posts 2009-05-08

News to know: Microsoft layoffs, Kindle, NetSuite, Skype, Tedx

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. Sam Diaz: Microsoft starts second round of layoffs. More to come? Mary Jo Foley: Ballmer's layoff mail to the...

Tags: Google Inc., Layoff, Dana Blankenhorn, NetSuite Inc., Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Workforce Management, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Remote Access, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-05-06

IBM's Mills: 'Find me a company not interested in SOA principles'

IBM's Mills: 'Find me a company not interested in SOA principles'SOA is DOAYes, check back a few years and you will see that it WAS me that coined that phrase. I should have said that SOA is RPC.[I challenge anybody in the room to bring forward a company anywhere in...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, IBM Corp., SOA, information technology, application asset

Discussion threads 2009-05-05

IBM's Mills: 'Find me a company not interested in SOA principles'

'Nobody gets up in the morning with the idea that they want to accumulate more redundant IT assets' by Joe McKendrick

Tags: Principle, SOA, IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Asset Management, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-05-05

SOA may be taking the risk out of cloud computing

EDS Fellow Alex Cameron has been pondering the growth of complex systems, and comes to the conclusion that current concerns about the viability and ROI-ness of service oriented architecture are missing a far greater point. More than anything else, he believes, SOA is taking the risk out...

Tags: Cloud Computing, SOA, EDS Fellow Alex Cameron, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-04-16