Desperately Seeking SOA Business Cases
Or, to rephrase that famous Kennedy quote, "ask not what SOA can do for you, but ask what you can do to improve your business!"
The Reason Enterprise Architects Should Study Economics
Thus, it is here that Enterprise Architects, especially those we call Chief Architects, truly show their mettle. It is their experience, coupled with the ability to focus on the right…
IT Business Edge’s Loraine Lawson Interviews Me On SOA & EA
A couple of weeks ago I did an interview with Loraine Lawson (@lowrain) who covers integration technology for IT Business Edge. There were two different aspects to the interview, one…
Response to InformationWeek’s Bob Evans Commentary on CIO Suicide
Bob Evans, senior VP and director of InformationWeek’s Global CIO unit, recently published his thoughts and findings on why CIOs should no longer be focusing on aligning IT with business,…
My Prediction of Cloud & SOA in 2005
Okay, maybe it’s petty and I’m just tooting my own horn, but I found this old article I wrote for Upstream CIO’s October issue (written in July ’05). In rereading…
The Role of The Business Analyst in an SOA World
Those of us that are part of SOA-related projects where traditional business analysts (BA) are involved often find ourselves frustrated by the incongruence between the analyst’s approach to requirements gathering…
The SOA (& Cloud) Funding Dilemma
Lately, and primarily among government users, I’ve been hearing about a potential clash of bureaucracy meets technology when it comes to funding shared services. It seems that the current government…
Perhaps SOA is More Strategy Than Architecture
Is SOA really architecture, or is it simply a strategy for business transformation?
Keep Your SOA and BPM Initiatives Separate
This entanglement of SOA and BPM into a single effort is fraught with problems and failure. Each initiative should be undertaken separately and with definitive goals that do not list…
SOA & Cybersecurity
I recently started my research into cybersecurity and I am working to become more prolific in this area. Naturally, given my inclination to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), I am really…