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Joe McKendrick is an author and independent analyst who tracks the impact of information technology on management and markets. Joe is also SOA community manager for ebizQ, and speaks frequently on Enterprise 2.0 and SOA topics at industry events and Webcasts. He also serves as lead analyst and author of...- more about Joe McKendrick »
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- Microsoft unviels its 'Internet Service Bus'
- More indications that Microsoft is getting serious about SOA:Chris Kanaracus of Redmond Developer News has brought to light some very interesting activity coming out of Microsoft regarding delivery of the SOA paradigm. Namely, Microsoft is planning to deliver enterprise service bus functions on a Software as a Service model.Now, there's...
- Tags: Web Services, Vendor Watch, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- Microsoft promises 'shrink-wrapped' SOA
- Microsoft is reportedly set to offer what at least one commentator has called its "first shrink-wrapped SOA stack." According to a report in ENT, the vendor's new Service-Oriented Architecture & Business Process pack consists of an array of the company's core development tools and back-end components, along with guidance materials...
- Tags: General, Vendor Watch, Web Services
- Blog posts 2007-07-12
- 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
- An SOA built without Web services!
- Last week, I posted some thoughts about divorcing Web services from service-oriented architecture. The two work together, but aren't necessarily the same. Lo and behold, this story from TechTarget comes up -- SOA is now being employed for the monitoring controls for the world's largest particle accelerator, but employing Java-based...
- Tags: Web Services, Vendor Watch, General, Case Studies
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- 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
- Service Component Architecture gets slapped around a bit
- Service component architecture SCA is a good thing, right? Isn't it supposed to elevate SOA-ish things above Java and all that other those other bothersome languages with their own protocols, complexities, and latency issues?Well, some analysts out there have professed that SCA has, well, issues. David Chappell, for one,...
- Tags: Web Services, Vendor Watch, Standards Watch, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- Oracle says future of SOA is EDA; ditches 'SOA 2.0'
- Many commentators appear to have been underwhelmed by goings-on at last weeks Java One confab, but at least Oracle made some SOA news when it laid out its Fusion middleware vision.And, unlike past pronouncements, the vendor did not refer to its new emerging vision as "SOA 2.0."Oracle says Fusion is...
- Tags: General, Vendor Watch, Web Services
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- IBM disses UDDI; calls for a new SOA registry standard
- IBM spokespeople are stating that the UDDI standard for registries isnt cutting it, and the "time is now" for a new registry standard more focused on todays SOA realities.In a new report in ITWeek, IBM manager states that SOAs have stretched the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration UDDI web services...
- Tags: General, Standards Watch, Vendor Watch, Web Services
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Analyst: IBM bypasses UDDI standard
- An industry standard is a great idea -- every vendor should have one of its own. The industry has made some progress in getting vendors to line up behind standards, but vendors being vendors, they still alway insists on releasing their own flavor of standards in products. IBM, which proclaims...
- Tags: Vendor Watch, Standards Watch, Web Services, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-20
- Proof that the SOA as a Service as a SaaS (SaaSaaSaaS) market is thriving
- Okay, time to mix it up more with the SOA-Software as a Service connection. I just got word that StrikeIron reports it had a very good first quarter, adding over 175 new customers in the first three months of 2007, with revenue increasing six-fold over the same period in 2006....
- Tags: Web Services, Vendor Watch, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- 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
- Signs abound that SOA is moving to the sweet spot of the market
- The other week, I poised the question of whether end-users should be able to build their own services within an SOA framework. This stirred some interesting commentary in the blogosphere, including James Taylors observation that "businesspeople dont want to assemble applications, they want to run their business!" Bellwhether Microsoft,...
- Tags: General, Vendor Watch, Web Services
- Blog posts 2007-02-17
- Analyst: Wall Street likes Microsoft's SOA message
- Wall Street may call the shots for which technologies run Main Street, but who runs Wall Streets own technologies? Wall Street firms have mainly the crown jewels of IBM and Sun Microsystems, but at least one analyst said Microsoft is also becoming a force to be reckoned with. As Darryl...
- Tags: Vendor Watch, Web Services, General
- Blog posts 2007-02-17
- IBM promotes speech as a service in SOA
- There are many types of services that an be exposed through a service-oriented architecture, and IBM is pitching one that could change the world: speech. For example, a a speech-to-text-to-speech translator deployed in Iraq last year may help bridge the communications gap between Iraqis, Americans, and British. And there are...
- Tags: Web Services, General, Vendor Watch
- Blog posts 2007-02-14
- 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
- ESBs, acquisitions, and Java EE topped SOA news in 2006
- ZDNet Blogging colleague Dana Gardner just surfaced Michael Meehans top eight picks for SOA and Web services stories of 2006.Mike does a great job of spotting the most important news shaping the SOA world, starting with number eight here and wrapping up the top four here. In ascending order,...
- Tags: Web Services, Vendor Watch, Standards Watch, General, SOA
- Blog posts 2006-12-27
- Another view on 'contract-first' vs. 'code-first' approach to SOA
- IONAs Steve Vinoski saw my recent post on the potential issues with SOA services that are automatically generated -- or what he calls "code-first services" -- and provides more insights on the approach. Steve makes the distinction between code-first services and "contract-first" services that are designed and run independently of...
- Tags: Web Services, Vendor Watch, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-20
- 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
- Don't bail out autos, invest in cloud!
- In the cloud model, the vendor rather than the customer takes on all the upfront cost of building and deploying the computing infrastructure. If SaaS and cloud take off, will the software industry have enough cash to fund that huge revenue gap? by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Revenue, Software-as-a-service, Recession, Industry, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Sales Strategy, Government, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- CRM 2009 - Part 2.1 - Can't Believe I Forgot These
- I forgot to write in two of my forecast segments yesterday. I think for the purposes of blaming something else, I'll blame my car accident last August for the memory loss. I have to say that because I don't think I can use the term I want to about what happened...
- Tags: Customer, Tool, CRM, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
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