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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."

Dan Woods raises some salient points for CIOs to consider in his JargonSpy column this week, in which he talks about the many useful Web services available today from the Google Maps API, Amazon.com, eBay, online banking, and FedEx and UPS package tracking.

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.

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.

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.

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.