All across the blogosphere, analysts, experts, and technology enthusiasts are buzzing about the latest claims that SOA is dead. The thunderstorm of controversy was set off by Burton Group analyst, Anne Thomas Manes, who recently blogged an obituary for SOA entitled: SOA is Dead; Long Live Services. As I consider the bold claim of SOA’s […]
The first day of SOA World 2007 - West went very well. Miko Matsumura with Software AG / webMethods kicked things off with the keynote - Time Oriented Architecture: Evolution by Design? And he had some really entertaining 3-D animation and virtual simulations in his presentation. It was pretty cool. The […]
Last month, Aberdeen Group released a report detailing the findings from analyzing the service orientation results over a period of eighteen months for approximately 400 companies. The analysis revealed a ‘deep division’ between enterprises that simply deploy ‘a bunch of Web services’ and those that take a more strategic and comprehensive approach to service orientation. […]
We’ve been hacking away at SOA in one form or another for seven or eight years. I often wonder where we are in terms of SOA maturity across the industry as well as at individual corporations and government agencies. In some respects, there are many strong signs of maturity. There are copious […]
As SOA increases in maturity and we understand it better, inevitably we develop standards and common design strategies. One such design strategy that I am closing monitoring is the evolution of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). In particular, I am interested in the potential development of a standardized SOA middleware framework framework that […]
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Kyle Gabhart is the Director of Emerging Technologies for Web Age Solutions, a leading provider of Custom IT Education and Mentoring. He has extensive experiencing in designing, aligning, developing, and managing Enterprise Architectures for organizations of all shapes and sizes. Kyle frequently writes and speaks for international audiences and occasionally people listen. |