Dan Sholler

My colleague Roy Schulte has just completed a new book on event processing, and we have just published (well, to give him credit, he did the heavy lifting ) a whole bunch of new research on events and event systems.
The first one  Six Design Patterns for Event-Processing Applications shows the logical design patterns used for [...]

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Although the recurring rumors of SAP buying Tibco have obscured it.. SAP does continue to improve its current integration offerings. The latest enhancement pack is now generally available. It has some desirable features, and includes technological improvements that SAP’s customers will benefit from. Check out our analysis of the update here…. User Feedback About NetWeaver [...]

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Lots of cool stuff about the cloud from all sorts of places.. but one thing strikes me immediately. In the past, the vast majority of our IT investments were either labor, or fixed costs. What cloud is really doing, is injecting a variable cost component into this. I personally believe that this shift is the [...]

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The final analysis of our 2008 survey (which concluded in December) shows us that SOA is clearly delivering value in many organizations.  (See Survey Update: The Value of SOA Gartner subscription required). While the impact of SOA on costs was only moderately positive, SOA made significant contributions to the agility of the IT organization, and [...]

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Curiously, despite all the talk about recession, the stock market, and healthcare reform, the most popular topic around here is still SOA. Like everything else, we have seen our share of organizations who were planning major initiatives around SOA to put those on hold, and some to question the value of them yet again. At [...]

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It is always amazing how something so obvious can become so confusing. Shared services are shared services. SOA is about creating software as shared services. All of the developments around virtualization, and the infrastructure utility (Gartner subscriptions required) are about changing our infrastructure and operations management to shared services… and guess what? Private clouds (or [...]

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I have recently been inundated with questions about the design of message formats. While these questions vary from techniques for XML extensibility to issues about how to create common elements for messaging standards. Underlying all of these questions is a basic challenge: Creating a common set of shared services requires a common information model.  We [...]

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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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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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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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