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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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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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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by Dan Sholler | November 7, 2008 | 1 Comment
One of the most interesting research projects that I have been working on this year has been our ongoing SOA user survey (Gartner subscribers only). Last week a summary of some of the interesting findings was sent out , and it has gotten some exposure (a search string). I am glad of that, because it [...]
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by Dan Sholler | October 22, 2008 | 2 Comments
Our SOA surveys show that the vast majority of services in production today (over 80%) are WS-* services. This means that they have a WSDL descriptor, and at least in theory they can be invoked via SOAP over HTTP. In reality, many of them use commercial middleware or ESB message transports. However, nearly every discussion [...]
by Dan Sholler | October 17, 2008 | Comments Off
Having spent 4 days talking to dozens of our clients about SOA, it is impressive how far we seem to have come in such a short time. While there are certainly any number of "how do we get started" questions, many of the people I am speaking with are well on their way to implementing [...]
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by Dan Sholler | September 19, 2008 | Comments Off
I have had several conversations this week with organizations that are struggling with SOA. In all cases the challenges were the result of a difference between the scope of agreement they were able to achieve, and the one that they had organized around. Most organizations, when starting SOA, figure that they services they build will [...]
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