Expert analysis, advice and prognostications about Service Oriented Architecture and distributed computing.
Our bloggers: 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. Former applications developers Rich Levin has been implementing, advising on, and writing about information technology for over 20 years, covered computer technology for CBS Radio and hosts the popular "PC Talk" show. Nicholas Petreley is a former programmer and consultant, has worked for InfoWorld, Computerworld, LinuxWorld and Network Computing World, webzines, and serves as contributing editor for CIO, focusing on SOA as a primary area of coverage.
The Top Priorities
Cautious optimism is the anecdotal sentiment we hear most often when discussing the health and demeanor of enterprise IT, and data in a recent Network World technology priorities study bears that out.
A Tale of Two Architectures
Despite the tension between Software Architecture and Service Oriented Architecture initiatives in recent years, and their competition for funding and resources, the two efforts actually go hand in hand. Focusing on only one effort causes suboptimal returns on the other, with a serious and negative impact on your SOA investments. Dan Rosanova details how this can happen and how to avoid it.
Steering a Business Through the Recessionary Storm
Weathering the recessionary storm shouldn't mean just perpetuating the status quo until the tempest clears. Richard Sykes identifies three transformational exercises that will deliver rapid benefits: SaaS, commoditized data services, and SOA.
Burton Group: SOA is Dead; Long Live Services
Although the word "SOA" is dead, the requirement for service-oriented architecture is stronger than ever.
The SOA Knowledge Gap
The traditional corporate hierarchy--the organizational structure that serves the company's business needs--can get in the way of software developers who need to create a service-oriented architecture which serves the business as a whole. Here's how to address some of the thorny issues it raises, especially in the process of gathering business requirements.
Confusing Nouns and Verbs: A Common Pitfall in SOA and Integration Initiatives
SOA projects can go drastically off course when they get tangled up in inter-system dependencies and new capabilities in myriad legacy systems. This can be the death knell of a service-oriented architecture initiative, as it falls behind schedule and runs over budget.
SOA What? Why You Need an SOA Governance Framework
Igor Khurgin and Saurabh Verma of Acument Solutions explain why your enterprise needs a SOA governance framework before lawlessness takes over.
John Stepper Teaches Deutsche Bank to Sprecken Ze SOA
Deutsche Bank Managing IT Director John Stepper explains how he is building service-oriented architecture into the engine... with the car running.
A Rare Collection of Celebrity Endorsements for SOA
Service-oriented architecture may be suffering from a PR disadvantage because few, if any, celebrities endorse it. If that is the problem, this blog entry is the cure.
Why UDDI Sucks
The registry landscape needs to change, insists MuleSource's Dan Diephouse in this interview about the technologies on which Web services rely. The unholy trinity of SOAP, WSDL and UDDI needs to go.
