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The SaaS Superhighway: Telecoms and Software Are Converging
The global convergence is under way - with telecom on top!
By: Ash Massoudi
Feb. 28, 2008 09:00 AM
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For years, the telecom industry has been aggressively expanding into IT services to offset declining revenue from traditional voice and data services.
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Today telecom's infrastructure-focused IT services such as computer hosting are already commoditized. Telecom companies are trying to figure out how to climb up the IT stack towards application-focused software services where the business value is more direct and the margins higher. As it turns out, the Application Service Provider (ASP) model proved that turning licensed, single-tenant, traditional applications (such as those from Oracle) into a managed service doesn't have the required economies of scale. More importantly, the ASP delivery model is a stretch for the subscription/usage-based telecom providers.
Many organizations make
the faulty assumption
that SOA is a panacea
that can, and should be,
applied to every
situation. The reality is
that service orientation
is not the right answer
for every scenario. The
expense of service
orientation cannot always
be recouped and, in some
cases, 
Open source has made
significant inroads into
middleware deployments in
the enterprise. More and
more, open source is
being used to deliver the
benefits of SOA and open
source to the enterprise.
There are many custom
Enterprise Service Bus
deployments waiting to be
upgraded to a simple
Adopting SOA is a lot
like gardening. It takes
time, skill, a lot of
hard work, and the
process can be messy and
even a bit frustrating at
times. I know you've
probably heard tons of
different analogies that
attempt to put SOA and
governance into everyday
terms and I'm sure that
growin 
Once upon a time data
modeling played a central
role in the process of
developing applications.
Thus far in the SOA era,
there has been a heavy
emphasis on process, and
data has all-too-often
been lost in the SOA
shuffle. In this talk, we
present a data model for
SOA - i.e., a service-
