SOA in Action Blog

SOA in Action on the High Seas (and Near Shorelines): US Coast Guard

joemckendrick — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:19:42 -0500

The Coast Guard - part of the US Department of Homeland Security - started looking at SOA in early 2007, as a way to address growing requirements to be able to share information not only across its own various units,...

Roundtable: From USS Enterprise to Enterprise, US Navy Gets Service Oriented

joemckendrick — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:15:36 -0500

The US Navy is bringing all its information resources into a single enterprise portal. (That's portal, not porthole...) In conjunction with an enterprise-wide architecture, the Navy intends to have common services available across the entire organization. "By the end of...

Roundtable: SOA for the Defense

joemckendrick — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:11:58 -0500

No one does "big bangs" better than the US Department of Defense (DoD). However, when it comes to service oriented architecture, DoD prefers not to make a "big bang," but take things one quiet, deliberate step at a time. Dave...

Informatica Extends Service Orientation to the Data World

joemckendrick — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:48:27 -0500

Informatica, known since its founding 16 years ago as a data integration and data mart provider, has been closely watching developments in the SOA space for some time.Now, the company's new flagship product, Informatica 9, represents a radical departure from...

Keynote: Event Processing Can Be So... PC

joemckendrick — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:12:38 -0500

No we're not talking about political correctness or personal computing, though these both could easily measure into the equation. Rather, PC -- or more appropriately, PC-cubed -- is the set of factors that need to be considered when looking into...

Keynote: A Mnemonic That Helps Clarify Event Processing

joemckendrick — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:44:43 -0500

Complex event processing need not be so complex. In fact, over the next few years, systems that sense and respond to events will be as commonplace as business intelligence systems are today.The grand finale for latest SOA in Action conference...

Gartner Keynote: Shattering the Myths of 'SOA Naysayers'

joemckendrick — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:08:26 -0500

In his keynote that opened the second day of ebizQ's SOA in Action conference, Gartner's Yefin Natis sought to dispel some of the myths that surround SOA -- not only by the overeager optimists, but also those promulgated by the...

Gartner Keynote: Shattering the Myths of 'SOA Fanatics'

joemckendrick — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:16:37 -0500

In his keynote that opened the second day of ebizQ's SOA in Action conference, Gartner's Yefin Natis sought to dispel some of the myths that surround SOA -- not only by the skeptics and naysayers, but also those promulgated by...

Forrester's Heffner: Four Guideposts for Your SOA Journey

joemckendrick — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:00:00 -0500

Yes, SOA is a journey, not a destination. And it's not something around the corner or a half mile away. It's a journey that takes place over a period of years, with many milestones along the way.In his keynote address...

Forrester Keynote: Seven 'Fixes' for SOA

joemckendrick — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:57:15 -0500

"I'm here to tell you that SOA is alive and well..."With those words, Randy Heffner, analyst with Forrester Research, kicked off ebizQ's latest SOA in Action conference, which included a stellar lineup of industry luminaries and practitioners.In Randy's keynote, he...

SOA in Action Sets the Tone for 'SOA, Phase 2'

joemckendrick — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:11:08 -0500

We've just wrapped up the SOA in Action event, and all sessions will be available for archived viewing.I was pleased to have served as emcee and moderator of the conference, which is intended to help set the tone for the...

Pfizer's SOA Spawns Innovative Mashup Culture

joemckendrick — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:34:44 -0500

Pfizer, the pharma giant, is no stranger to SOA -- the company has had SOA efforts underway for more than four years now. Two years ago, I reported on a talk given by Martin Brodbeck, executive director for strategic architecture...

SOA, Phase 2: Toward a Loosely Coupled World

joemckendrick — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:13:44 -0500

Back in early 2006, I published a piece on the impact of delivering SOA-ready services via online, on-demand venues such as online marketplaces. Here is an update on the piece, revised to meet today's cloud computing realities. Since I wrote...

Time to Make SOA Work for a Living... Conference in Two Days

joemckendrick — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:52:52 -0500

Do you find "selling" SOA's value to the business is more difficult in today's economy, especially since ROI is often hard to quantify? Are you wondering how SOA projects can derive the benefits of emerging technologies such as Complex Event...

SOA Symposium: SOA Manifesto Seeks to Guide SOA Journey

joemckendrick — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:40:45 -0500

Many of the issues in the SOA space have been the result of confusion about what, exactly, SOA is supposed to bring to the organization. There are several key values and principles that distinguish serious service orientation initiatives from those that...