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Webcast: SOAs, WOAs, and the clouds they create

This coming Monday, July 13th, I will be joining industry visionary Jeff Papows, president of WebLayers, for a semi-informal, interactive discussion on capitalizing on the SOA-Web Oriented Architecture WOA-Cloud phenomenon. The Webcast, titled "Floating Governance to the Cloud through Web Oriented Architectures and 'As a Service' Environments," will commence at...

Tags: Strategy, Web, Webcast, SOA, Web Oriented Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Channel Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Emerging Technologies, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-07-07

Whoa, WOA: Are acronyms clouding up the cloud?

ZDNet colleague Dana Gardner points to Michael Meehan's recent post on the Web Oriented Architecture WOA -- Mike spoke with some industry practitioners who apparently didn't think too much of the "WOA" moniker, striking them "as redundant and nothing particularly new, an empty suit if you will." Just another fancy...

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

Blog posts 2008-04-22

'Enough with WOA, stick to SOA,' say IT architects - I say drop WOA and SOA

Mike Meehan at SearchSOA.com has done some homework on the use of Web Oriented Architecture WOA, and the IT folks in the field are fed up. Enough with the labels, they seem to be saying. And they raise excellent points. I for one am by no means...

Tags: Web, Information Technology, SOA, Service, Web Oriented Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-04-21

Additional Resources

Gartner leaves SOA off 'top ten' list - again

Gartner just issued its Top 10 Technology list for the year ahead, and guess what's missing? Once again, service oriented architecture got sacked by the sages of Stamford. SOA proponents, however, can take cold comfort that just as was the case last year, SOA is the underpinning...

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

Blog posts 2009-10-21

Conference alert: let's make SOA work for a living

Welcome to Service Oriented Architecture, Phase 2. It's bigger, It's badder, it's all business.  None of this namby-pamby JBOWs stuff. None of these SOAPY-REST tantrums. SOA is all grown up now, and it's time it starts earning the bacon. I am serving as conference chair and...

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

Blog posts 2009-10-15

Oracle OpenWorld 2009 - Social CRM Technology Rears an Actual Head

I am almost always in awe of Oracle OpenWorld.  The scope of this conference is spectacular. Can you imagine an event that the attendance is down to 37,000 attendees?  Actually, that puts me in awe of their event planners more than even the event. How in the name of whoever...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Siebel Systems Inc., CRM, Anthony Lye, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-10-14

AMD's Charlie Boswell: With cloud computing, 'follow the money' [interview]

Cloud computing can't possibly handle streaming a first-person shooter or a feature-length film, can it? Ask AMD's Charlie Boswell, and he'll not only tell you it's possible, but he'll nearly leap with excitement about it. Boswell, AMD's director of digital...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Cloud, GPU, OTOY, Fusion Render Cloud, Jules, Games, Cloud Computing, Internet, Virtualization, Personal Technology, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-09-11

Enough of RESTless SOA? Speak now or forever hold your peace

Sounds like he;s never build anything substantial with either oneThere's nothing more expensive or less productive about using SOAP vs REST, nor that says you can't use both at the same time.Theres nothing more or less opaque or different about the data being transfered or the state management.Neither dictates any...

Tags: SOAP, Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Simple Object Access Protocol, SOA, restless SOA

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Eurotransplant Improves Patient Safety and Transparency With Service-Enabled Legacy Systems

Eurotransplant wanted to ensure rapid donor information capture and improve data accuracy and increase patient safety by providing surgeons with better access to the transplant waiting list and organ availability data. The challenge was to achieve greater transparency of organ allocation rules and enable the organization to evolve from data-driven...

Tags: Patient, Oracle Corp., Legacy System, Eurotransplant, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Hardware Upgrade, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

Case studies 2009-09-01

Bank Teams With Application Platform Experts to Redesign Web-Banking Infrastructure

Alpha Bank is one of the largest banks in Greece with more than 1,000 branches, more than 15,000 employees, and a presence in Cyprus, Southeastern Europe, and the United Kingdom. The database and application platform that supported the alternative banking channels of Alpha Bank grew obsolete, making it difficult for...

Tags: Bank, Alpha Bank S.A., Pricing, Real Estate, Banking, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Databases, Marketing, Business Operations, Financial Services, Software, Data Management, Management, Web Services

Case studies 2009-08-24

BriefingsDirect analysts discuss Software AG-IDS Scheer acquisition and lackluster prospects for Google Chrome OS

Another topic for our panel this week is the seemingly inevitable trend toward Web oriented architecture WOA, most notably supported by Google's announcement of the Google Chrome operating system OS. by Dana Gardner

Tags: Google Inc., Acquisition, Operating System, Google Chrome, Mergers & Acquisitions, Operating Systems, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Software, Business Operations, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-08-18

Gartner: SOA out of 'trough of disillusionment,' cloud on hype peak

Gartner recently released its latest "hype cycle" diagram for 2009, which shows service-oriented architecture to be well past the "trough of disillusionment" and climbing the vaunted "slope of enlightenment." Cloud computing, however, is now at the pinnacle of hype (no surprise there, right?), and ready to plunge...

Tags: Trough, Gartner Inc., SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web 2.0, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-08-14

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

National Instruments Improves Process Efficiency and Data Access With Service-Oriented Approach

National Instruments NI wanted to create a new standards-based reference architecture to help NI respond to growing internal and external requirements to expose additional applications and data to the Web and enable employees in various locations as well as customers and partners to have secure, real-time access to reliable data...

Tags: National Instruments Corp., Data Access, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Management

Case studies 2009-08-01

Layer 7 Application Services Governance

Layer 7 Technologies', CEO, Paul Rochester, and VP of Engineering/Chief Architect, K. Scott Morrison, stopped by telephonically to introduce their company, its philosophy and bring me up to date on their product portfolio. The company offers server appliances and virtual appliances that take on the tasks of firewall, compliance enforcer,...

Tags: Web, Layer 7 Technologies Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Channel Management, Web Services, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-07-23

New Socialtext Microblogging Appliance Signals Increased Flexibility

Socialtext are making available an 'unbundled' appliance version of their microblogging product 'Signals' at an attractive $US1 per user per month, plus $1,000 per month server subscription. With the rapid increase in business use of Twitter, the hugely successful but internet based free microblogging platform, there...

Tags: Socialtext, Socialtext Microblogging Appliance, Socialtext Signals, Social Networking, Wiki, Strategy, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-14

News to know: Facebook privacy, Windows 7, Kindle, Firefox 3.5

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: Facebook's privacy settings: users get more control as wall gets torn down Ed Bott: Microsoft to offer Family Pack...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Mozilla Firefox, Andrew Nusca, Privacy, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Middleware, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-07-02

Enterprise 2.0 2009 Conference: Aggregate and Organize

I finally made it to Boston for the Enterprise 2.0 conference with my record intact. That record would be that I have NEVER in 15 years of flying to Boston a hundred times, NEVER, repeat again, NEVER been on time both ways.  This one was resolved quickly because my flight...

Tags: Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Pacific Timesheet 6.51 (Windows)

Pacific Timesheet is DCAA Compliant web-based timesheet and time tracking software that provides project timesheet, project time tracking, project management, project portfolio management, job costing, product life cycle management, payroll timesheet, and time and attendance features in one system. Modules include automated approvals, billing and pay rates, time-off scheduling, resource...

Tags: Payroll, Microsoft Windows, Training, Pacific Timesheet, Pacific Timesheet Enterprise, Custom Configuration, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Human Resources, It Operations, It service Management, Management

Software downloads 2009-06-15

Running your SOA like a Web startup

One of the more striking differences between IT and the online world these days is the contrast between traditional enterprise service-oriented architecture and its equivalent on the Web, open APIs. More and more lessons are coming from the online space, providing key insights into how we might invigorate the way...

Tags: Web, Information Technology, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Marketing, Management, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2009-06-13