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 As I look upon the enterprise landscape today, I cannot help but wonder if the enterprises are going to be all right. Every couple of years, enterprises have to face the onslaught of their vendors who bring in newly coined phrases, acronyms, and newly minted software platforms, along w...May. 4, 2006 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 14,669 Replies: 5 |
 There is a lot of talk about how SOA will significantly lower the need for developers, thus the savings of SOA. This will be accomplished through the promise of reuse that's driving many toward the SOA light. However, I'm not sure we'll see a reduction in development with the advent of...May. 4, 2006 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 15,062 Replies: 2 |
 For decades, IT professionals have put up with the headaches of managing a complex and rigid enterprise architecture that has become a Petri dish for the too-familiar misalignment between IT and the business. Enter service-oriented architecture (SOA), which promises to create applicati...May. 4, 2006 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 9,596 Replies: 2 |
 In almost every significant SOA deployment, a few services have advanced requirements that force those services to intelligently manage the data that they use. A fault-tolerant service might be deployed on a cluster of machines, which means that the instances of the service must share ...Apr. 26, 2006 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 10,000 Replies: 1 |
 The concept of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) existed long before the current set of Web Services standards. However, it's the widespread adoption of these standards that has enabled the idea of SOA to enter the mainstream and to start delivering the level of connectivity and sa...Apr. 20, 2006 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,514 |
 SOA offers significant advantages, but it puts additional demands on visibility, control, and overall governance. Although enterprise SOA initiatives are typically deployed incrementally, to gain long-term value and ensure quality and consistency, you must address governance issues ear...Apr. 10, 2006 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 19,280 Replies: 2 |
 Most well established large organizations suffer from some level of 'Web sprawl.' It organically grows for the same reasons as a disparate systems environment.Mar. 19, 2006 04:00 PM EST Reads: 12,372 |
 In the early days, the birth of desktop computing resulted in technology that provided integration between the computer and the telephone: we call it Computer Telephony Integration or CTI. The concept was delightful to most technology-minded people, but it never really emerged as a ubi...Mar. 17, 2006 04:30 PM EST Reads: 5,900 Replies: 2 |
SCO Group announced its new EdgeClick platform for mobile and desktop digital services, several new EdgeClick partner programs and a new transactional portal called EdgeClick Park that will support an entire ecosystem of solution partners, sales agents and end users. Mar. 7, 2006 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,001 |
 Web services have evolved from plain application-integration enablers to value-added stand-alone functionality providers such as getting a quote to a comprehensive business function like processing orders. Enterprises are exploiting this new revenue model by offering such business func...Feb. 27, 2006 11:30 AM EST Reads: 17,964 Replies: 1 |
 One of the business benefits organizations strive to achieve by implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) or in utilizing Web services is the opportunity to reuse business components. Asset reuse is one of the core drivers of the SOA or Web service ROI calculation. Although le...Feb. 26, 2006 03:15 PM EST Reads: 15,497 Replies: 1 |
 The notion of building bridges to service providers and managing the interaction will become more commonplace in 2006 as we learn to accept that many services we leverage within an enterprise are services we may not host. The technology exists today. We need to define and refine our ap...Feb. 22, 2006 09:45 AM EST Reads: 20,539 Replies: 1 |
 A lot has been written on the approach to service-oriented architecture (SOA) migration. Although they are referred to by many names, there is the strategic approach, which is of high quality and so is also costly and initially less responsive because of the analysis involved up front....Feb. 1, 2006 10:15 AM EST Reads: 17,382 Replies: 1 |
 Legacy systems are a core asset at many organizations. These legacy systems have been around for decades and have a very critical impact on day to day business processes. However, owing to a variety of reasons, these legacy systems have high TCO and represent a bottleneck towards the e...Dec. 27, 2005 04:45 PM EST Reads: 24,702 Replies: 3 |
 Day by day, company by company, IT organization by IT organization, today's enterprise is busy architecting for business-solution agility and the alignment of key assets around the emerging service-oriented architecture (SOA) umbrella. The ability to embrace SOA leads to the ability to...Dec. 26, 2005 09:45 AM EST Reads: 33,595 Replies: 3 |
 Web services were created around the notion that it's easier to discover and leverage somebody else's service rather than write your own from scratch. Also, it is much easier to create applications made up of many services, thereby allowing change to occur at a pace faster than anythin...Dec. 9, 2005 04:30 PM EST Reads: 21,883 Replies: 6 |
 Service-oriented architectures (SOA) have gained much attention recently as a unifying technical architecture that can be concretely embodied with Web service technologies. SOA is a design model deeply rooted in the concept of encapsulating application logic within services that intera...Dec. 7, 2005 11:00 AM EST Reads: 30,412 Replies: 3 |
 As numerous organizations are planning to embark on their first endeavors in service-oriented architecture (SOA), it is important to recognize that the necessary organizational transformation has as much to do with cultural transformation, as it has to do with open, Internet standards-...Dec. 2, 2005 10:30 AM EST Reads: 7,539 Replies: 1 |
 You are an architect on your company's new flagship application. The app encompasses several business and technical domains that are, in your opinion, well suited to domain-specific languages (DSLs). In years past, you would have turned to XML as the solution for all your DSL needs. Wi...Nov. 29, 2005 06:00 PM EST Reads: 14,567 |
 Thomas Erl recently completed a lengthy research project for SOA Systems Inc. into the origins of SOA and the current state of service-orientation among all primary SOA technology platforms. We caught up with him to ask him to share some of the insights he gained from his work with SOA...Oct. 29, 2005 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 31,323 Replies: 3 |
 LibGo Travel, one of the largest privately held travel companies in the U.S., provides vacation packages through its retail stores and wholesale distribution channels to consumers, partners, travel agents, and stores. The company wanted to expand its offerings by adding dynamic, brande...Oct. 26, 2005 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 32,399 Replies: 1 |
 Service-oriented architectures (SOA) and autonomic computing are among the hottest topics in IT today. SOA simplifies integration and facilitates the componentization of enterprise-wide systems, thereby enabling optimal business agility. Autonomic computing allows these systems to oper...Oct. 20, 2005 07:15 PM EDT Reads: 16,182 Replies: 1 |
 The promise of service-oriented architecture (SOA), increasing benefits of Web services, and continued business use of legacy systems have all coalesced to usher in a new era of flexible IT alignment for business needs. With only a fraction of legacy applications being Web-enabled and ...Oct. 20, 2005 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 17,988 Replies: 1 |
 Why do we do what we do? I mean, why do we design and implement SOAs? The truth is we do so to improve our business, thereby making it more adaptable and ready to accept change without major disruptions. However, what does this mean to the bottom line?Oct. 17, 2005 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 16,849 Replies: 2 |
 Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has become today's technology buzz and it's rapidly becoming a mainstream approach to enterprise systems design. Beyond the buzz of SOA, organizations face several challenges as they attempt to truly effectuate the paradigm shift towards SOA. One cri...Oct. 8, 2005 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 26,129 Replies: 2 |
 Web services/SOA architect and guru Paul Lipton was speaking at a technical conference recently when he overheard someone well-respected in this field say something along these lines: 'You have to know how well your SOA is running. Knowing the overall health and responsiveness of your ...Sep. 1, 2005 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 26,316 Replies: 2 |
 'The mainframe continues to have a vital role in the IT strategies of many of our customers, and making mainframes and distributed platforms true peers in a SOA offers tremendous benefits,' said Kristin Weller Muhlner of webMethods Inc, as her company today announced a new reseller agr...Aug. 8, 2005 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 11,944 Replies: 1 |
 As we discussed last month, performance is often an afterthought when building new systems, including SOAs. We're finding that services and SOAs fall victim to this oversight as well. Indeed, there is a right way and a wrong way to design a service and an SOA. Also, there are things th...Aug. 2, 2005 10:15 PM EDT Reads: 19,295 Replies: 2 |
 Performance is often an afterthought when building new systems, and I'm finding that services are no exception. Truth be told, most services out there just function. They are not optimized to scale, and SOAs are running into walls as those services hit the upper limit. If we don't lear...Jun. 28, 2005 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 14,195 Replies: 1 |
 Today's business environment is changing rapidly. Business dynamics and technological innovations have left organizations with a disparate mix of operating systems, applications, and databases - making it difficult, time consuming, and costly for IT departments to deliver new applicati...Jun. 28, 2005 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 16,150 Replies: 2 |
 Sometimes when we're faced with addressing a complex engineering problem it's helpful to reflect on antipatterns. Doing so does more than track wrong solutions to common problems; it also focuses the mind on the interaction of the most important elements of the problem domain. This is ...Jun. 28, 2005 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 25,437 Replies: 4 |
Today most of the conversations surrounding service-oriented architectures (SOAs) focus on flexibility and breaking down applications into services: modular, reusable, componentized, with increased availability to the services as well as increased management of them. However, with thes... May. 26, 2005 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 12,845 |
Building an SOA usually means leveraging a loosely coupled-type architecture. While the benefits of a loosely coupled SOA with many services are apparent, the operational characteristics can be a nightmare. However, with a bit of planning, and the use of some standards, your SOA will b... May. 26, 2005 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,750 |
Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) are a significant step forward in aligning information technology with business goals. But SOAs are insufficient when the Web services of which they are typically composed use inconsistent terminologies and present different understandings of the r... Apr. 26, 2005 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 25,327 |
As we bring our SOAs online using Web Services, we all know that SOAP is the standards message transfer protocol. But the interface description language for Web Services (WSDL) isn't specifically for SOAP. It's more generic. Apr. 26, 2005 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 16,094 |
 Business processes integrate systems, partners, and people to achieve key strategic and operations objectives. Examples of business processes include getting and filling orders, processing invoices, reconciling shipping notices and received goods and processing insurance claims and loa...Apr. 26, 2005 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 37,879 |
One of the ongoing challenges for business today is finding ways to do more with less. Companies are under relentless pressure to deliver products and services to market faster, better and cheaper than ever before. Investments in information technology are expected to drive the busines... Mar. 18, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 11,893 |
Since the beginning of computing we've been dealing with the notion of coupling, or the degree to which one component is dependent on another component in both the domain of an application or an architecture. Lately, the movement has been towards loose coupling for some very good reaso... Mar. 18, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 20,179 Replies: 2 |
This article describes how an essential precursor to any SOA implementation is a data modeling exercise that integrates all underlying data models, focusing more on the business requirements than on system- and application-specific requirements. Feb. 2, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 18,966 Replies: 1 |
The concept of a service-oriented architecture is a powerful tool for simplifying enterprise integration. Following the three principles of modularity, encapsulation and loose coupling will achieve some amount of improvement for an individual service. It is insufficient to have a loose... Feb. 2, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 22,696 Replies: 1 |
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