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…
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…
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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 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…
Is Vendor-based SOA Training A Good Idea?
I saw an announcement this morning by WSO2 that they are offering free SOA Training this summer; this triggered my “uh-oh” senses. I'm sure that WSO2 means well, but I've…