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…
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When SOA Fails, Just SCA
There’s a lot of points that will be made in this blog entry. To keep them straight, I will highlight them right up front: Vendors are getting behind SCA because…
The Impact of Making Product Choices Using Qualitative vs. Quantitative Analysis
As part of my job, I help customers to select the appropriate software to either fulfill a need or as a component of a larger solution. Fulfilling this role means…
Then What Does Make Someone an Architect?
So, allow me to expand on my prior blog entry — Architecture Frameworks Don’t Make Architects — and answer the question, what does make an architect? To help structure my…
Architecture Frameworks Don’t Make Architects
So, I was about to blog on this topic when up comes a Tweet from Ron Schmelzer (@rschmelzer) over at ZapThink, “Question for the tweeple: do Federal EA Frameworks matter?…
The Reason SOA Isn’t Delivering Sustainable Software
Wow, to read the positive reviews of SOA and what it’s doing for the IT industry, one would be likely to believe that there’s serious transformation occurring because of this…
The Relationship Between SOA, BPM & EA
A colleague recently sent me some IBM propaganda on SOA, BPM and EA. Discussing my opinion of the white paper with him sparked an idea for a blog entry about…
Architecture is a Craft
Yesterday, I read Fowler’s “Who Needs an Architect” , which is an odd piece that never really answer the question to my liking, but it did get me thinking. For…
What’s the difference between a software component and a service?
It seems that I am not as flexible as I believed I could be on my thinking regarding SOA. I attempted to categorize various SOA engagements in my SYS-CON article…
Cloud Computing: New Stuff or Legacy Revisited?
There’s a lot of information hitting the bitwaves touting the value of cloud computing and it seems that within the IT industry those that profess positive opinions of an emerging…