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ZapThink explores the four stages of SOA governance that lead to business agility

By formalizing its approach to governance by following SOA best practices at the EA level, an organization can leverage resources in a more agile manner. by Dana Gardner

Tags: ZapThink LLC, SOA, SOA Governance, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-11-16

ZapThink's Linthicum takes reins as CEO of data services provider StrikeIron

Service Oriented Architecture SOA consultant and author Dave Linthicum has taken over as CEO at data services provider StrikeIron, just six months after Linthicum sold his consulting firm to and became a managing partner of SOA analysis firm ZapThink. On April 2, Linthicum was identified as CEO...

Tags: Data Service, StrikeIron, ZapThink LLC, CEO, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Channel Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-04-02

Analyst: four SOA consulting red flags that spell trouble

ZapThink's David Linthicum, who nailed the SOA-business alignment problem so well at last week's Open Group's Enterprise Architecture forum, points to another matter creating headaches for organizations: consultants offering expensive "SOA" solutions that end up being far less than promised. Consultants have a long proud history of...

Tags: ZapThink LLC, Consultant, SOA, Consulting, Dave, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-02-04

Europe leads with SOA: if so, why?

John Michelsen of iTKO asked an interesting question in his most recent post: "Why does SOA seem to be moving forward a little faster in Europe than in North America?" Is Europe better with architecture? This first thought that comes to mind is whether...

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

Blog posts 2008-01-15

Here's the number one SOA post in 2007

IT hearts SOA, right? The most popular post in terms of traffic for this SOA blogsite in 2007 was one that provided a contrarian view to the most closely held belief around SOA: the view that IT is out there alone, killing itself trying to convince the...

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

Blog posts 2007-12-21

Analyzing the business future of Rich Internet Applications

I had a chance to dig into the ZapThink report which predicted spending on RIAs would exceed $500 million dollars by 2011. The rest of the report is absolutely fantastic and I suggest that any company currently developing RIAs or thinking about doing so in the future get...

Tags: RIA Solutions, RIA

Blog posts 2006-08-04

SOA 1.0 is too buggy, let's upgrade to 2.0

SOA 1.0 is too buggy, let's upgrade to 2.0Why the decimal point?Does this imply we could later decide SOA 2.0 (or Web 2.0) is all a big mistake and we need to regress to, say, SOA 1.6? Isn't an integer sufficient to uniquely identify a version of SOA or Web?...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, ZapThink LLC, Service-oriented, client-server, SOA, SOA 1.0

Discussion threads 2006-05-24

SOA radio

ZapThink is hosting a new series of free web radio "casts" to address some of the key issues in the field right now. Seems like a pretty good cast of participants, actually. Tune in, call in and let your opinions be heard. Here are the upcoming events: April 7, 2005...

Tags: Guest, Guest expert

Blog posts 2005-03-21

The Pros and Cons of Web Services

Web Services form the battleground where industry titans such as Microsoft and IBM are going head to head, surrounded by hundreds of other combatants. However, there are still a large number of CIOs and other technology executives who are unfamiliar with Web Services, or worse, misunderstand them. This...

Tags: Web, ZapThink LLC, Web Service, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing

White papers 2002-07-01

SAIC SOA Case Study: The Navy/Marine Corps Intranet

Science Applications International Corporation SAIC is a well-known, established, and respected systems integrator and professional services firm that service many of the largest corporations and government agencies. With over $6 Billion in revenue, the company is now looking to Service-Oriented Architecture SOA to help further their integration practice around legacy...

Tags: ZapThink LLC, SAIC, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies

End-to-End Metadata Management - Registries, Repositories, and Governance

In this webcast, you will learn how registries are key to making loosely-coupled SOAs work, and provide the necessary infrastructure for SOA governance .You will also learn about metadata management and metadata-first development, and how to leverage service and software development assets across the enterprise.

Tags: Registry, ZapThink LLC, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

Webcasts

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SOA architects must be as much evangelists and consensus-builders as technologists

Now that Service-Oriented Architecture SOA is percolating up inside enterprises -- sometimes as a set of strategic initiatives, but more often as discrete pilot projects -- the human resources needs are surfacing along with it. If youve got the right stuff, the budding role of SOA architect could be a...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA architect, SOA, management, ITIL, IT Service Management, IT Management, Enterprise 2.0, Agile Development, .NET

Blog posts 2007-04-03