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- Survey: mainframes now being service-enabled, not replaced
- A new survey confirms what many of us already suspected: that mainframe and other legacy systems are no longer being ripped up and replaced. Instead, the operative term is now "modernization." And SOA has helped fuel this sea change.A new survey finds modernizing is preferable to replacing Big Iron. Times...
- Tags: Web Services, Vendor Watch, SOA Surveys and Research, General, Business ROI
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
- SOA business case: smaller is better
- There's been quite a bit of debate as of late as to whether SOA should start small and incrementally, or be introduced from the top down as a transformative venture. The word out of the recent BEA Systems executives annual Arch 2 Arch customer conference in Nice, France, is 'start...
- Tags: Vendor Watch, General, Business ROI
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- O'Toole: The era of Big SOA is over
- In previous blogs, we talked about the oxymoron of "SOA Suites" (SOA is supposed to free us from vendor lock-in, right?), and the growing tendency of vendors to want to package anything and everything into Big Honking SOA suites.In a recently published interview at TechTarget, Cape Clear's Annrai O'Toole says...
- Tags: Business ROI, General, Vendor Watch
- Blog posts 2007-06-15
- Calling all disruptors: the perfect storm of SOA, SaaS, and open source beckons
- I just had the opportunity to check out the World Innovation Forum being held this week in New York, in which Clayton Christensen, Harvard professor and author of The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution, talked about the paradox that emerges when new technologies commoditize the marketplace. Namely, that when...
- Tags: Vendor Watch, General, Business ROI
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- SaaS Opens Up SOA Beyond the Firewall
- The convergence of service-oriented architecture and Software as a Service lays open the possibilities of bringing in services from outside the firewall, which can be "snapped" into place within a company's infrastructure. This also means that services a company creates can be introduced to a broader market beyond the firewall.Miko...
- Tags: Web Services, Vendor Watch, General, Business ROI
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Saugatuck: why SOA adoption is at a 'crawl'
- Maybe it's because vendors still sell SOA as toolsets, versus concepts. (Who can sell a "concept," right?) Or, maybe business users are perplexed by the technospeak that typically is invoked in SOA discussions. For a variety of reasons, SOA adoption has been moving at a snail's pace within enterprises, according...
- Tags: Business ROI, General, SOA Surveys and Research, Vendor Watch
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- How to keep too many cooks from spoiling the SOA broth
- As part of InfoWorld's SOA Executive Forum held last week in New York, I hosted a podcast with with special guest Ashish Mohindroo, Oracle's Fusion Middleware Director. Ashish was a featured speaker at the Forum. In our chat, Ashish laid out the case clearly and concisely for SOA governance. Many...
- Tags: Business ROI, General, Vendor Watch
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- SAP chief: Collaborate or die
- At this weeks big SAP confab in Atlanta, SOA as a enabler for collaboration between companies was front and center of SAP CEO Henning Kagermanns address to the 14,000 assembled attendees. At the confab, the ERP giant announced that its "Enterprise SOA" strategy is on track, and that it intends...
- Tags: Business ROI, General, Vendor Watch
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- Vendors promote an oxymoron -- 'SOA suites'
- "Jumbo shrimp" and "government organization" are classic examples of oxymorons, but is the idea of an "SOA suite" also just as much a contradiction of terms? After all, SOA is not supposed to be about suites, bundles, integration packages, or anything else that smacks of vendor lock-in. ...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, SOA Suite
- Blog posts 2007-03-11
- Transformation, agility: are expectations too high for SOA?
- Theres been a lot of discussion lately about SOA "failures," and already, statistics are showing up showing that this percentage or that percentage of companies consider their SOA projects to be failures. Expect to see plenty more of such surveys over the coming months and years. Survey data shows...
- Tags: Business ROI, General, SOA Surveys and Research, Vendor Watch
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- 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
- Another view: clear IT 'clutter' before thinking about SOA
- Some call it IT "sprawl," and theres plenty of agreement that theres too much "clutter" in our enterprises. Is it wise to potentially add new infrastructure via SOA on top of what may already be a tangled mess of applications and systems?As reported by Brian Sommer in a new post...
- Tags: Business ROI, General, Vendor Watch, Web Services
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- BEA exec: Get business users involved in app development
- Okay, lets review our checklist of who needs to be educated or enlightened about SOA. Unfortunately, it looks like everyone up and down the value chain, including IT:The financial community doesnt get SOA. Some CTOs are not enamored, as of yet, by SOA. Many IT professionals/architects arent ready with the...
- Tags: Business ROI, General, SOA, Vendor Watch, Web Services
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- Analyst: Wall Street doesn't quite get SOA yet
- To paraphrase Gordon Gekko, is SOA a "dog with fleas"? Shouldnt analysts be excited over the prospect that enterprises are finally getting the tools and knowledge they need to break down their internal silos and move forward with confidence into the new digital realm? Would Gekko, the corporate raider in...
- Tags: General, Business ROI, Vendor Watch, SOA
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
- Let's bring Steve Jobs in to make SOA a hit
- Is SOA suffering from a failure of imagination? Perhaps the industry needs someone who can really capture the imagination of business decision makers to really make service-oriented architecture all that it can and should be.For all the vendor brouhaha around SOA, theres one voice that has been notably absent --...
- Tags: SOA, Web Services, Vendor Watch, Business ROI, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-08
Additional Resources
- DIRECTV: Well HERE's Your Problem, Ma'am...
- Shortly after I posted my diatribe on my problems with my DIRECTV HD receivers and the company's horrible customer service, I was contacted by Stuart Sweet, a moderator on a popular Satellite TV forums site, DBSTalk. Apparently, my post had created quite a stir and I was asked to register...
- Tags: Digital Video Recorder, DirecTV, Satellite, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-19
- SaaS vendor quits browser to boost sales
- SaaS vendor quits browser to boost salesNo slant here...Maybe I'll start writing articles on the companies I have investments in so I can improve my positions. This site just keeps going from bad to worse.Rave Webinars & Free TrialsI'm a consultant with Entellium and would encourage anyone interested in checking...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Web browsers, Java development tools, Phil, webinar, software-as-a-service, SaaS company, Web browser, sales
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- Apple is not the real enemy of open source
- Apple is not the real enemy of open sourceGodwin's Law is now in effectGodwin's law: whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically "lost" whatever debate was in progress.Loser.Apple is the official NAZI PARTY of Open Source.Where is http://opendarwin.com? It's GONE.Apple SUPPORTED the whole OSx86 project, then THEY reneged- There...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Linux, Digital media, Godwin, Apple Inc., open source, digital-rights management
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- SaaS vendor quits browser to boost sales
- SaaS CRM vendor Entellium is phasing out its browser-based offerings in favor of a smart client version that it says sells faster, better and at one-fifth of the marketing costs of the old version. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Entellium, Software-as-a-service, Sun Java Studio Creator, On-demand, Sales, Web Browser, User Experience, Johnston, Rave Complete, Rave Insight, Rave Marketing, Rave Care, Java Development Tools, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Spam coming from free email providers increasing
- Spam coming from free email providers increasingSpamit is a problem, when recieve spam the TO: has additional accounts on my free email. there should be a way for the free email t block those sending to the same free email. it's CRAZYFree E-mail services should be held responsible...for keeping their...
- Tags: Spam, free email company, spammer, e-mail company, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
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