MIKE KAVIS

Mike Kavis is a veteran Chief Architect with over 23 years of IT experience including distributed computing, SOA, BPM, data warehouse, business intelligence, and enterprise architecture.

Eight Winning Characteristics of Successful SOA Implementations

The SOA Consortium announced the winners of the SOA Consortium and CIO.com SOA Case Study contest. Here are several characteristics common among the winners.

SOA Governance: Balancing Process and Agility

By now everybody has heard over and over how governance is critical to the success of any implementation of service-oriented architecture. Companies implementing SOA must provide the proper level of governance required to achieve reuse and flexibility without negatively impacting their team's ability to innovate and be agile.

WSO2 Releases New Open Source Data Services Product

WSO2 CTO and co-founder Paul Fremantle discusses the company's new product for service-oriented architecture that focuses on data services. The open-source tool promises to make it easier for DBAs and data experts to get involved in SOA.

SOA Still Isn't Just For Integrating Legacy Systems

SOA is not just for legacy systems but can be strategic for Startups as well. Service-now.com, a SaaS provider of IT Service Management solutions, has used SOA as a competitive advantage.

Six Questions to Consider Before Building a SOA Testing Team

With all of the focus on the proper design of business services, business alignment, and SOA governance, sometimes the challenges that SOA creates for quality assurance testers is overlooked early on in SOA initiatives.

Service-now.com Starts Up SOA

Its CEO's vision for Service-now.com for the startup's underlying architecture was that the software must be "simple, approachable, configurable, and easy to integrate" and had to be as "restless and stateless as possible." Translation: He turned to service-oriented architecture and SaaS.

Are you Insecure about SOA Security?

Service-oriented architecture creates many new challenges in the areas of security and privacy. IT leaders must educate themselves on what these risks are to prevent rolling out a red carpet for hackers to get at corporate data. Mike Kavis asked architects, vendors, trainers and security experts to identify SOA's biggest security risks that architects need to address.

Does Your Organization Have the Skills to Implement SOA?

Implementing SOA can have a major impact on people at various levels within an organization. Before a company gets too far into designing solutions, they should access the existing skill sets of their people and the impacts of SOA on their culture and delivery capabilities.

Startup SOA Because It's More Than Integrating Legacy Systems

Many SOA implementations focus on rejuvenating and integrating legacy systems. This has created an impression that SOA is larger companies with years of legacy. In reality, implementing SOA can be a competitive advantage for young companies, especially startups.

Organizational Skills to Implement SOA

Implementing SOA can have a major impact on people at various levels within an organization. Before a company gets too far into designing solutions, it should access the existing skill sets of their people and the impacts of SOA on the culture and delivery capabilities.