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Archives for December, 2008


Web Oriented Services Reference Architecture

by Dan Sholler  |  December 23, 2008  |  Comments Off

For you Gartner subscribers who are interested in WOA services, I suggest you take a look at the Reference Architecture for WOA. This is a description of the moving parts that are needed to implement a WOA-style service. The good thing about it is that there is not much there that is new; the architecture [...]

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Discussions from the AADI conference

by Dan Sholler  |  December 17, 2008  |  Comments Off

OK, so I have finally dug out from the backlog after attending our AADI conference in Las Vegas last week. It was nice to see some of you in person. One thing that always bothers me is that I never have enough time to answer all the questions that people ask during our presentations. In [...]

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Come and see us next week in Las Vegas

by Dan Sholler  |  December 5, 2008  |  Comments Off

I will be heading out to Gartner’s Application Architecture, Development and Integration conference next week at Caesar’s in Las Vegas. I am presenting on how to get started with SOA, how to use SOA effectively for integration,  and the results of our surveys about SOA implementation and effectiveness. In addition, I will be hosting a [...]

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Building the SOA business case

by Dan Sholler  |  December 3, 2008  |  Comments Off

We all know that building the business case for many IT and infrastructure related projects is quite difficult. I and my colleagues Anthony Bradley, Roy Schulte, and Paolo Malinverno have summarized the best practices we have observed in a research note that was just published today .  This technique represents a pragmatic approach to creating [...]

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