SOA
Jan 02, 2009 White Paper: Five Keys to SOA Success
What are the keys to success with SOA? It's a common mistake to think that SOA and the tectonic changes it brings primarily relate to technology. SOA requires a change in thinking, a change in organization, and a change in software.
This Evolved Technologist® white paper, sponsored by HP, describes:
- The Business Benefits of SOA
- Evolutionary Stages to Enterprise SOA Adoption
- The Five Keys to Success
A companion white paper, Closing the Gaps in SOA Adoption, is also available.
Jan 02, 2009 White Paper: Closing the Gaps in SOA Adoption
This Evolved Technologist® white paper, sponsored by HP, describes a variety of gaps that IT organizations often fail to consider when adopting a service-oriented architecture.
Topics covered in this white paper include:
- Categorizing the Gaps by Role
- Gaps in Promoting SOA Adoption
- Gaps in Providing Services
- Gaps in Consuming Services
A companion white paper explores The Five Keys to SOA Success.
Nov 12, 2008 SOA's Downside: Operational Complexity
Dan Woods strikes again in his JargonSpy column this week by revealing what he calls the "Dirty Little Secret" of SOA: the operational complexity IT is faced with as it begins to learn how to "run a world in which the performance characteristics of a collection of services determines the reliability and scalability of an entire IT infrastructure." More »
Nov 07, 2008 Dealing With the 'Integration Debt' of the Web Services Flood
Oct 22, 2008 Exploring the Challenges in Semantic Service Discovery
In this week's JargonSpy column, Dan Woods addresses some of the use cases involved in semantic service discovery, a terms that describes using the Web to search for services instead of simply searching for Web pages.
Woods also writes about the some of the challenges faced by developers in creating the foundation for service discovery, such as having to deal with a large volume of services, and ways to describe what the services do. More »
Oct 10, 2008 Using Smart Services to Solve Crucial Problems
In this week's JargonSpy column, Dan Woods discusses the economics and business models behind smart services: services that can be used to let machines in offices and factories communicate when they need "tune-ups" to operate more efficiently. More »
Oct 04, 2008 Business Process Consommé: BPM, SOA, and BPX
Organizations today are starting to look at ways to better design their processes through the right combination of BPM, SOA, and the BPX (Business Process Expert) role in order to achieve greater efficiency at all levels with their companies. But there are many challenges that face these enterprises, such as the achieving the proper relationship between business and IT. Dan Woods examines these these challenges in another of his JargonSpy columns on Forbes.com. And a few days after this column appeared, the folks at ITBusinessEdge took notice and outlined the tips Dan suggests for companies looking to better integrate BPM and SOA. For more information on the Business Process Expert role, see Process First.
Sep 12, 2008 Partly Cloudy
Cloud computing is on the minds of many these days. But there's not really just one cloud. Dan Woods delves into the implications of various kinds of clouds from several perspectives, including the regulatory aspect and quality of service, in his JargonSpy column on Forbes.com.
International Research Forum 2008
In May 2008, top researchers from around the world gathered near Potsdam, Germany for the International Research Forum sponsored by SAP Research. For two days, these thinkers from business, academia and government examined a topic that will increasingly become part of our vocabulary: the Internet of Services. The discussion illuminated how the Internet of Services will change enterprise computing. It will help businesses leverage core strengths, find partners in new business networks, collaborate and tap new global markets. Software as a service, cloud computing and other trends are democratizing innovation as never before. The infrastructure barriers to doing business in the Internet of Services are falling away. Yet, as this book shows, this new world also poses challenges different from anything we have seen before.
Enterprise SOA: Designing IT for Business Innovation
In Enterprise SOA: Designing IT for Business Innovation, Dan Woods and Thomas Mattern analyze SAP's blueprint for putting SOA to work. In addition to design, development, and architecture, vital contextual issues such as governance, security, change management, and culture are also explored.