by Dan Sholler | February 8, 2010 | Comments Off
many people these days are struggling with the governance models for SOA. While the circumstances differ, there is a common refrain.. people (most often business users who control budgets) do not have a grasp of the value of SOA, and what it means to the organization. However, this is hardly surprising. Our most recent surveys [...]
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by Dan Sholler | November 25, 2009 | Comments Off
We are putting the finishing touches on the SOA tracks at the upcoming AADI conference . We not only have great content from Gartner, but have an exciting group of speakers for the SOA Panel Discussion, that we are doing with Richard Soley from the SOA consortium. I am also personally very pleased with the [...]
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by Dan Sholler | October 13, 2009 | 1 Comment
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 [...]
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by Dan Sholler | August 12, 2009 | Comments Off
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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by Dan Sholler | May 26, 2009 | 3 Comments
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 [...]
by Dan Sholler | March 27, 2009 | Comments Off
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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by Dan Sholler | March 6, 2009 | Comments Off
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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by Dan Sholler | January 22, 2009 | Comments Off
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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by Dan Sholler | January 15, 2009 | Comments Off
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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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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