At TIBCO’s TUCON user conference a couple of weeks back, CEO Vivek Ranadivé unveiled the themes that his company plans to use to anchor its marketing over the next year at least: Enterprise 3.0 and the “two-second advantage”. Unsurprisingly given his predilection for publishing books that provide the backstories for his company’s direction (see The [...]
Posted by Neil Ward-Dutton on May 24, 2010
When MWD started in 2005, the first topic we sunk our teeth into was SOA (it was 2005’s Cloud Computing, pretty much).We researched the technology and the practice pretty thoroughly, I think (along the way tackling “SOA 2.0” among other things), but in mid-2007 we drifted away from the topic a little. At the time [...]
Posted by Neil Ward-Dutton on November 19, 2009
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A couple of months back I had a brief Twitter exchange with David Bressler of Progress Software (@djbressler), following a comment I’d seen from Judith Hurwitz (@jhurwitz) at Progress’ analyst day regarding the lack of brand awareness that the company has out there in industry. What I said was: “Progress is a bit like Unilever [...]
Posted by admin on April 1, 2009
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Something that’s been sloshing gently around in my head for a little while came into focus the other day on reading a post by Brenda Michelson: Unintentional Cloud Watching >> Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architects. Namely, that the link between cloud computing and SOA has multiple angles.
It’s becoming clearer that, true to Tim O’Reilly’s initial [...]
Posted by admin on February 23, 2009
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I’ve spent a couple of days wavering over whether to jump into an ongoing blogosphere debate over the “Death of SOA”. For those who haven’t yet read any of the debate online, here’s the catalyst: SOA is Dead; Long Live Services – a fictional obituary of SOA by Anne Thomas Manes of the Burton [...]
Posted by admin on January 8, 2009
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A couple of weeks ago I was the happy recipient of a review copy of the excellent Todd Biske’s SOA Governance book. Todd’s “Outside the Box” blog is one of those rarities where every post is worth reading twice – so I was very interested to see whether his writing ability might stretch to something [...]
Posted by admin on November 14, 2008
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Following the first Software Delivery InFocus podcast which we published in September, October sees Bola Rotibi’s second podcast episode, in which she discusses a series of questions focused on the topic of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Her guests are John Leegte (ICT Architect at the Dutch Tax and Customs department, Belastingdienst) and Steve Jones (Head [...]
Posted by admin on October 31, 2008
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Joe McKendrick (once again!) has another post which caught my blogreader today. This time he is pondering the relationship between SOA and data governance:
If data governance is inadequate — information is outdated, out of sync, duplicated, or plain inaccurate — SOA-enabled services and applications will be delivering garbarge. That’s a formula for SOA disaster.
He goes [...]
Posted by admin on September 24, 2008
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Joe McKendrick over at ZDNet has been pondering CIO “SOA Advisor” Nicholas Petreley’s definition of SOA:
a networked subroutine
No wonder Joe’s not sure about it! Nicholas’ definition is closer to that of a web service and even that’s being generous!
Joe rightly points out that the definition completely ignores the ‘A’ of SOA and comes up with [...]
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Earlier this week I attended an IBM press and analyst summit on the topic of “Business Event Processing”. To coincide with this, the company made some announcements on its “BEP leadership”, with over 3700 “BEP customers”. This is fairly early days in IBM’s attempts to tell a coherent story about what it’s doing in event [...]
Posted by admin on September 12, 2008
