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- Survey hints at SOA skills shortages to come
- IBM commissioned a survey of attendees at its recent SOA customer confab, and concluded that SOA -- at least among this group -- is finally evolving from an IT activity to that of a more strategic business initiative. IBM said that the strategic decisions to adopt SOA "are shifting away...
- Tags: Business ROI, General, SOA Surveys and Research, Web Services
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- 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
- REST for the SOA-weary
- Oliver Widder has done it again with another great "Geek and Poke" commentary on the ironies of enterprise SOA. This latest cartoon was inspired, at least in part, by my recent post on the rise of REST. By the way, happy first anniversary on the series, Oliver --...
- Tags: Web Services, General, Business ROI
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- Some ringing endorsements for REST
- Is REST the future of SOA?Some analysts think so.The battle between SOAP/WS-* and REST proponents has been going on for some time now. In fact, a little over a year ago, Gartner's Darryl Plummer pointed out in an oft-discussed article that the Web services world had actually split into two...
- Tags: Web Services, Standards Watch, General, Business ROI
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- 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
- SOA-Web 2.0: a lot in common, but two centers of gravity
- "We're continuing to see more clearly that Web 2.0 and SOA really are largely (but not 100%) the same concepts that merely lay on different — if fairly different — parts of the software continuum." -Dion HinchliffeZDNet colleague Dion Hinchliffe has been watching the mashup developing between SOA and Web...
- Tags: Web Services, Standards Watch, General, Business ROI
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- Is Enterprise 2.0 the next big thing or 'the next little thing'?
- Can Enterprise 2.0 transform the way we work? Or is it being muffled by the same inertia that pulls most organizations into the muck? ZDNet blogging colleague Dion Hinchcliffe has just weighed in on a debate on whether E2.0 is "The Next Big Thing" or "The Next Little Thing." The...
- Tags: Web Services, General, Business ROI
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- Can we, should we, attempt to control enterprise mashups?
- Can we, or should we, attempt to control mashups in the same manner as composite applications? Thats the issue that was front and center of the most recently published SOA BriefingsDirect, led by ZDNet colleague Dana Gardner. The answer seems to be, for now, keep mashups on a long leash....
- Tags: Web Services, General, Business ROI
- Blog posts 2007-04-28
- Why not sell SOA as 'internal' SaaS?
- Have you heard about SOA as a SaaS? Okay, sorry to go haywire with the acronyms. Ian Thomas picked up on my initial post "Is SOA Software as a Service, Delivered Internally?", and has been pondering where the relationship between SOA and SaaS will take us. SaaS pushes the...
- Tags: Web Services, General, Business ROI
- Blog posts 2007-04-15
- Is the US government a good model for SOA governance?
- Ive been meaning to surface one of Dana Gardners latest SOA BriefingsDirect podcasts, in which we were joined by Miko Matsumura, VP of marketing for webMethods (now Software AG/webMethods of course). Miko has a gift for translating complex SOA topics into mentally tangible metaphors, and the chat turned to an...
- Tags: Web Services, General, Business ROI
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- SOA on legacy: lipstick on a pig, or extended value?
- Jeremy Miller, not an avid fan of SOA, says theres a better way to adapt software to evolving business needs than attempting code reuse. And that is to simply write good code in the first place. Its cheaper and less risky to write brand new code than fiddling around with...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Hardware upgrade, SOA, Jeremy Miller, legacy system
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- 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
- Unclouding the business case for 'inside-out' SOA
- Developing the business justification may be one of the most difficult parts of an SOA project. However, the business case for inside-out SOA may have already been in play for at least a decade at many companies. The business case for SOA services extended to partners was already...
- Tags: General, Business ROI, Web Services, SOA
- Blog posts 2007-01-22
- Survey confirms we're getting faster and better at SOA
- Last month, I wrapped up writing the latest Evans Data survey of Web services and SOA, in which more than 400 managers and developers were asked to document their progress with these approaches. The survey has been conducted twice a year since the end of 2003. More than...
- Tags: SOA Surveys and Research, Web Services, Business ROI, General, SOA
- Blog posts 2007-01-02
- Seven areas of opportunity around SOA, circa 2007
- SOA is a challenge, but abounds with opportunities -- not only to streamline a process, but to change the way a business is managed. Technology -- along with SOA evangelization --may be the catalyst that could bring an organization out of its creaky, hidebound corporate culture and begin to seize...
- Tags: Web Services, Standards Watch, Business ROI, General, SOA
- Blog posts 2006-12-27
- Auto-generated services okay in model-driven SOA
- Theres been an interesting industry give-and-take around the "generated services" debate that weve had going at this blogsite. A number of industry observers say that automatically generated services (a "code-first" versus a "contract-first" approach) have hooks too deep in legacy systems or specific languages to be made available for reuse...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, SOA, reuse
- Blog posts 2006-12-21
- 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
- Survey hints business intelligence may be "killer app" for SOA
- A golden opportunity for SOA proponents is presenting itself. A new survey shows that most companies are looking to service-oriented architecture to build out their next phase of business intelligence applications, but that lack of knowledge about SOA may be hindering these efforts. BI pulls information from...
- Tags: General, Business ROI, Web Services, SOA Surveys and Research, SOA, business intelligence
- Blog posts 2006-12-01
- Less coding, less outsourcing?
- Will SOA take away a lot of outsourcers business? Or will its impact be negligible? As service oriented architecture has risen to the top of many enterprise to-do lists, theres been a lot of speculation about its potential impact on outsourcing. A couple of perspectives have shed some more light...
- Tags: SOA, General, Business ROI, Web Services, SOA Surveys and Research
- Blog posts 2006-11-22
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