Anthony Bradley

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If You Don’t Reward Sharing and Reuse, You won’t Succeed with Web 2.0 or SOA

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  June 16, 2009  |  3 Comments

I cover how enterprises can build better IT solutions by capitalizing on Web 2.0 and SOA. The common thread here is really on gaining better sharing including both content and capability sharing. SOA, social solutions, cloud, and mashups all demand sharing and reuse. You’ll never achieve significant success in any of them without developing a [...]

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You Can’t Build a Business Case for Enterprise Mashups

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  June 11, 2009  |  7 Comments

OK, now it is starting to seem gratuitous after my post titled “You Can’t Build a Business Case for Social Software.” But I do actually have a point. Like social software, you can’t build a universal business case for mashups but need to examine how you can apply mashups to gain business value. In other [...]

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Wrapping Up a Great SOA Conference

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  December 15, 2008  |  Comments Off

Last week we wrapped up the Gartner Application Architecture, Development and Integration (ADI) Summit in Las Vegas. This is our SOA flagship event. By many attendee accounts the summit was a great success. I’d like to wrap up the fall conference with a few bottom lines (this may look familiar to those who saw my [...]

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Stop the Presses! Gartner’s SOA Business Case Framework is Finally Published!

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  December 3, 2008  |  2 Comments

After over a year in the making, Gartner’s SOA Business Case Framework is now available (to clients or for a fee). I’ve been presenting the framework for over six months now at Gartner events and will again at the AADI event next week but now it is available in writing. As you will see, if [...]

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I Just Learned SOA and Now I Have to Learn WOA?

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  November 19, 2008  |  3 Comments

I can’t believe my colleague Nick Gall has not blogged on his recent research note on Web Oriented Architecture (WOA). See Tutorial: Web-Oriented Architecture: Putting the Web Back in Web Services. (Available for a fee to non Gartner clients). Dan Sholler and I also contributed but Nick certainly is the brains behind it. Nick coined [...]

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SOA Advancement into New Application Architecture Patterns

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  November 7, 2008  |  3 Comments

Yesterday I did an open to the public audio teleconference presentation on the subject topic. It was attended by about 200 of the people to whom we reached out. The slides are available in .pdf form at  http://www.gartnerinfo.com/aadi/slides.pdf.  Here is the link to the accompanying audio. I’ll update this post when we do. Any comments on the [...]

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