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I was chatting to a friend who’s a top-notch Java developer over the weekend: we were shooting the breeze about Groovy, Rails, Spring, Hibernate and various other Things That Get People Excited (let’s call them TTGPEs), and discussing how far they were likely to penetrate into your average IT shop. “Why do so many people [...]
Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 by adminUncategorized
HP yesterday announced long-awaited (at least as far as we are concerned) enhancements to its SOA software and services, which see the company beginning to realise the potential of its acquisition of Systinet (via Mercury) when it comes to SOA governance. Back in March, the other Neil highlighted that lifecycle management is one of the [...]
Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 by adminI’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen throwaway comments exhorting companies to “create a centre of excellence (CoE” (mostly, for initiatives like SOA or BPM). Vendor / pundit / analyst / journalist: “Having trouble? Establish a centre of excellence!” Customer: “Oh, that’s OK then, I’ll do that.” But let’s take a deeper [...]
Posted on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 by adminUncategorized
I’ve read a number of articles and thought pieces recently that explore the problems with approaches to IT delivery that focus too much on projects as the organising concept – particularly when it comes to SOA adoption. The shortcomings of an overly project-focused approach are something I can agree with wholeheartedly. The research we conducted [...]
Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2007 by adminUncategorized
I’ve long been a fan of Nick Malik’s blog – and indeed it was his blog that led me to ask him if he’d be happy to be interviewed for our book on IT-business alignment. In this post Nick nails quite a few aspects of IT governance, and explains how they fit in the context [...]
Posted on Friday, July 13, 2007 by adminUncategorized
Nick Malik poses an interesting question here – are we making things difficult for ourselves by calling Enterprise Architecture Enterprise Architecture? His point is (if I’ve got it right) that architecture work is kind of crunchy, focusing on very well-bounded and defined outputs – whereas EA work is delivered within a different context. Enterprises morph [...]
Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 by adminUncategorized
At the end of last week a webMethods’ press release popped into my inbox highlighting a recent demonstration of interoperability between the company’s UDDI-based registry (acquired with Infravio), HP’s Systinet registry and one of Layer 7 Technologies’ SecureSpan XML appliances. In a nutshell, the three companies showed how policies attached to services in a UDDI [...]
Posted on Thursday, May 3, 2007 by adminUncategorized
I just came across this whitepaper from webMethods (who is not a client) SOA Governance: Enabling Sustainable Success with SOA. Putting to one side the fact that this is from a vendor and the checklist in the Appendix is clearly oriented towards webMethods offerings – based on the acquisition of Infravio earlier in the year [...]
Posted on Tuesday, December 19, 2006 by admin
