July 26th, 2006Duane Nickull,
Adobe Systems: One could state that humans are not directly part of SOA any more than business process is; however both business processes and humans utilize the SOA infrastructure.
moreMay 17th, 2006Roman Stanek,
Systinet, a Mercury division: SOA governance is about managing the quality, consistency, predictability, change and interdependencies of services. It's about blending the flexibility of service orientation with the control of traditional IT architectures.
moreApril 24th, 2006David Davies,
Corizon: SOA's core principles of re-usable, well-defined services and loose coupling aren't applied at the UI level. This is a waste.
moreMarch 29th, 2006Duane Nickull,
Adobe Systems: Architects will want to ensure that their concrete architecture has a physical manifestation of each of the elements represented in the abstract model.
moreJanuary 4th, 2006Duane Nickull,
Adobe Systems: A good reference model provides common semantics that can be used unambiguously across and between different implementations.
moreNovember 21st, 2005Mike Carter,
CXO Systems: New 'network-aware' software companies will arise that leverage SOA and lightweight application layers to deliver new functionality for user consumption.
moreNovember 11th, 2005Marc Schneiderman,
Mobile Agent Technologies: A mobile agent-based SOA easily supports the dynamic and rapid assembly of software applications which are extensible, scalable and outperform those created using today's leading distributed component models.
moreOctober 4th, 2005Miko Matsumura,
Infravio: When your IT systems need to respond quickly, SOA's new programming layers, via configuration or composition changes, can help you achieve business agility.
moreSeptember 12th, 2005Ronan Bradley,
PolarLake: It is baffling to hear an IT professional arguing for 'hard-coded' solutions, within a 'service-oriented' architecture, on the pages of a website called 'loosely coupled'.
moreAugust 29th, 2005Ali Arsanjani,
IBM: SOA is a journey of gradual, small transformations that increasingly decouple service descriptions from service implementations offered by multiple service providers.
moreAugust 15th, 2005Thomas Erl,
SOA Systems: Autonomy, loose coupling, abstraction, and the need for a formal contract can be considered the core principles that form the baseline foundation for SOA.
moreAugust 2nd, 2005Mike Gilbert,
Micro Focus: Smart IT organizations are achieving the transition to SOA in several evolutionary steps, selecting the most suitable candidate legacy applications first.
moreJuly 18th, 2005Matjaz Juric,
Packt Publishing: With the support provided by BPEL servers we can develop portable business processes that can be shared among partners no matter which software platform they use.
moreJuly 1st, 2005Jared Rodriguez,
Skyway Software: The main value propositions behind SOA are reuse, efficient development, simplified maintenance and portability ... However, managing those processes is a significant challenge.
moreMay 16th, 2005Charlie Isaacs,
KANA: By integrating contact center applications such as case tracking and service resolution management systems within an SOA, the entire enterprise becomes the organization's customer data warehouse.
moreApril 27th, 2005Ron Schmelzer,
ZapThink: While developers often focus on the system-to-system aspects of SOA, the business audience is more concerned about the larger business agility, cost of ownership, and governance benefits.
moreFebruary 28th, 2005Luc Clement,
Systinet: Without a registry to track services and their inter-relationships, an SOA environment not only lacks coherence and control, it invites chaos.
moreFebruary 18th, 2005Jim Gabriel,
digitalML: Metadata evolution management is the real problem facing the long term lifecycle management of web services development projects.
moreJanuary 14th, 2005Chris Warner & Olivier Moratin,
Software AG: An ESB that forces you to use yet another MOM implementation will merely add to the complexity of the architecture.
moreDecember 13th, 2004Mark O'Neill,
Vordel: A company needs to question the motives of a vendor who recommends a solution where XML validation is performed at the perimeter, on untrusted XML documents.
moreDecember 6th, 2004Ronan Bradley,
PolarLake: Mediation is the missing piece of the jigsaw. It is essential when integrating newly defined web services with existing infrastructure.
moreNovember 1st, 2004Bob Sutor,
IBM: An ESB is something you build for your enterprise or organization to give you the connection architecture you need to meet your IT and business goals.
moreOctober 11th, 2004Olivier Moratin & Christopher Warner,
Software AG: By surrounding web services with a strong integration framework, metadata management and a semantics approach, business and IT can have a more productive and healthier relationship.
moreSeptember 27th, 2004Kishore Channabasavaiah, Kerrie Holley & Edward Tuggle,
IBM: Organizations that focus their development effort around the creation of services, using existing technologies, combined with the component-based approach to software development will realize several benefits.
moreSeptember 8th, 2004Steve Vinoski,
Iona Technologies: CORBA bindings for WSDL are key to allowing existing, deployed CORBA applications to continue to work in a web services world.
moreJuly 26th, 2004Mike Gilbert,
Micro Focus: Applications the IT group has written are unique to that organization's way of doing business. They embody data, processes, rules and concepts uniquely intertwined with the people who run the business.
moreJune 30th, 2004Kishore Channabasavaiah, Kerrie Holley & Edward Tuggle,
IBM: SOA is more than any particular set of technologies, such as web services; it transcends them.
moreJune 7th, 2004Frank Martinez,
Blue Titan Software: The new Chief Architect realizes that SOA success happens for business, as well as for technical, reasons.
moreMarch 11th, 2004Michael M Carter,
CXO Systems: The cost, complexity, and utility of the data warehouse will become marginalized as the principles of "distributed intelligence" take hold.
moreNovember 18th, 2003Freddie McMahon,
Decisionality: There is a huge gulf between how work is expected to be done and how it is actually performed; and this has become so pronounced in large organizations that it is the single biggest threat to executives.
moreOctober 30th, 2003Andy Hayler,
Kalido: Perhaps it is time to realize that standardization of business processes across a global enterprise is a pipe dream.
moreOctober 13th, 2003Ronan Bradley,
PolarLake: As web services moves into the area of application integration, there is a need for a new integration layer, which navigates the differences in technology and information model of the applications.
moreSeptember 29th, 2003Jeff Schneider,
Momentum Software: BPM-2 is designed to be a digital framework describing your business and systems. Think of it as a nerve center that sends signals to all of the organs of your system.
moreSeptember 5th, 2003Sekhar Sarukkai,
Confluent Software, & David Cohen: Operational policies, such as security and QOS, do not belong in the application layer. Web services technologies enable a clean separation of this layer-six functionality from business logic.
moreJuly 22nd, 2003Phil Wainewright,
Procullux Ventures: There's a false security in investing in all this custom-built, custom-configured software that you've installed in your premises that is still there even if the provider goes bust. Because what you've gained is inflexibility.
moreJuly 11th, 2003Doug Kaye,
RDS Strategies: Services are a new way of building distributed applications. We have five decades of experience with traditional applications, but just a few years with those built from services.
moreJune 27th, 2003Neil McEvoy,
Genesis Forum: The more you move away from thinking about your organization, and more towards thinking in terms of 'your network', the easier it becomes to understand the need for, the benefits of, and the methods of achieving an On Demand 'real time' enterprise.
moreApril 15th, 2003Lawrence Wilkes,
CBDI: The application of web services protocols doesn't guarantee the delivery of good services. SOA is about the proper design and architecture of good services.
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