SOA

Cloud Computing, what's it mean.

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:08:14 -0400

Cloud computing just has too many meaning to make it a meaningful term. I've worked (Project Manager) with systems that had to be FDA validated. This is not the typical engineers validated, but proving each and every operation. Cloud, SOA, or any apps used in this manner would not meet the criteria for validation particularly when even every router and switch change must be documented. Depending on the system it could mean the corporation would have to have a complete suite of apps installed on site with no connection possible between them and any SOA apps.

Podcast: SOA and Web Services, But BizTalk?

Mitchell Ashley — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:44:26 -0400

On the latest installment of the Converging On Microsoft podcast, Donald Lutz, CTO of Technetronic Solutions (one of a number of companies I advise), joins me to talk about building .Net applications using a SOA-based architecture and moving apps to the Software+Services model. Donald shares his views about building SOA and cloud services that don't look like typical applications. BizTalk isn't something we hear Microsoft talking about as much but it is a vital element of SOA and distributed cloud applications. If you are architecting or building SOA-based applications, you'll find this interview very interesting.

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Correct and troubling..

tuomoks — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:58:52 -0400

Very interesting and a little troubling! SOA as an idea is nothing new, the acronym is. At the time when IT was a profit center, anybody remembers?, all the business units, including IT, did work together. Maybe going back to that? A good article and a good paper. Now - how to get the decision makers to read and to comprehend it?

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IONA on a buy out spree...Where are SOA vendors heading to?

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:31:29 -0400

Hi Chris, I agree with you on "SOA platform vendors to move in the direction of quality testing". Till now biggies like Oracle were busy filling the critical holes in their SOA stack. With increasing focus on SOA quality and Operations, I am expecting some aggressive M&As in this areas. I predicted this in my post on June 16, 2008 "What could spark the next level of consolidation in the SOA product space…". Looks like Progress got some inpiration reading my post. :-) Regards, varun

And?

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:48:23 -0400

These articles are more provacative than assistive. You're helping me develop more questions than solutions. I appreciate the insight, but what's the fix? Other than the plug for Sonoa Systems, what is the angle IT execs need to take when setting up the IT shop for web services, SaaS, SOA, etc.?

Astonishing.

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:43:53 -0400

Wow. What complete and utter nonsense. Either the author doesn't understand BI or doesn't understand SOA. From what I could gather the author is advocating coding a SOAP service method each different view of BI data. Strange.

Is It True Integration?

Matthew Nickasch — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:56:29 -0400

I've been asking myself the following question lately: What defines a "good" convergence platform these days? Of course, the definition of good is highly subjective, and I've found that many organizations want and need different things out of their communications network. We've reached the time when simply providing dialtone and voicemail doesn't suffice. Now, we're charged with providing advanced IVR systems that automate business functions and provide advanced workflow features for both front-office and back-office systems and users. Convergence is ultimately about successful and intuitive integration, right?

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Can ANY failure be traced to the technology itself?

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:45:37 -0400

SOA as a concept is age old and dare I say obvious. SOA as web service/BPEL bindings are technically deficient in many areas. They lack support for standard cross-domain concerns on a distributed level such as alert/logging, trust/credential management and frankly lack of (XA) distributed transactions make the whole solution unusable in many environments where "Compensation" is insufficient.

Tech Update 2.0: Testing challenges in a virtual environment

videonet — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:53:32 -0400

John Michelsen, co-founder and chief scientist at iTKO, explains the challenges of testing applications in a virtual environment.

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SaaScon 2008 - Day 2: Message Bus & Virtualization

Mitchell Ashley — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:22:10 -0400

Welcome to day 2 of the SaaScon 2008 conference blog report. I took a bit of a different tact on interviews on Wednesday by talking to message bus/SOA/web services and virtualization companies focusing on serving the SaaS marketplace, represented by Boomi and Parallels. Once again though, no Microsoft at the show. (See my post about SaaS increasing the importance of partnering skills between vendors).

If you follow SaaS, there's a good chance you've heard mention of Boomi. Boomi has taken the concept of message bus technology and brought it to market as a SaaS service. I had the pleasure of meeting Boomi CTO Rick Nucci, and VP of Partners Programs, Lou Chappuie, during SaaScon.

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Microsoft and Yahoo!: 10 Questions (More or Less)

Michael Dortch — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:45:19 -0500

Clearly, I've got to stop sleeping, if I'm ever to stop waking up to such amazing news...but anyway, in no particular order, at least not until the end of the list...

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RE: Business intelligence becomes the jewel in SOA's crown

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:30:02 -0500

Nicely written article. I am suprised you did not discuss the Information Builders / iWay combination of BI and SOA solutions.

4 things you should know about mainframes and SOA

Layer 8 — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:18:24 -0500

IBM user group executives from Share were out this week drumming up interest for their upcoming meeting in Orlando, Fla., but also playing up some of the more important aspects of the group's recently released study of its members' mainframe trends and directions.

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How the mighty mainframe has morphed into 2008

Layer 8 — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:09:16 -0500

Here it is 2008 and we have some very interesting facts about the Big Iron chugging away in many corporate businesses. First and foremost, while tons of corporate date resides on a mainframe, it is largely locked there and a huge data integration effort will be required to unlock it. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

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RE: 10 tools to manage SOA

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:54:07 -0500

We use a product called JaxView for SOA management. Its cost effective and brings much more ROI for what we needed. Most these products you have in your list we looked at and non came even close in cost, ease of deplyment and use.

Microsoft reveals SOA roadmap

Microsoft Subnet — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:15:15 -0400

Microsoft announced "Oslo," the code name for its long-term set of SOA technologies. Its investments will be aimed at bringing composite applications to the mainstream. Oslo will involve products including BizTalk Server 6, BizTalk Services 1 (an eventual hosted service version of BizTalk), .Net Framework 4, Visual Studio 10 and System Center 5. Oslo was announced during Microsoft's conference on SOA and BPM occurring in Redmond this week. ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley noted that while Microsoft talked a lot of about its SOA vision at the conference, it said nothing about a timeline for implementing this vision.

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RE: 10 best practices for your enterprise SOA

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:19:10 -0400

Excellent and informative article on SOA.

RE: 6 hot technologies for 2006: SOA

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:53:53 -0400

i have implemented SOA on legacy applications. I realised that one of the most important key sucess factors is - organisational structure. You need to restructure your IT planning and operations teams so that they are service based and not resource based. In other words, map the the business processes and services to the teams.

RE: Using SOA to integrate the contact center

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:20:39 -0400

Funny enough, the Cisco product roadmap from Spring 2007 showed SOA being adopted by every application in the contact center portfolio (phones, trunks, IVR, etc.)...except the contact center application itself...that's right, no plans for a SOA compliant Cisco Unified Contact Center Express or Enterprise. That's SOA in the Contact Center, Cisco-style!!

RE: Why the CMDB is a hot topic for SOA

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:14:00 -0400

Traditionally the CMDB or Federated CMDB is designed to be the single point for Change Impact Analysis, Fault Diagnosis, Problem Management in the Service Management world but increasingly I hope it becomes adopted and supported as the main repository for SOA Registry for the Application / Solution developers. Good article thanks.