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by Scott Wilson on September 14, 2009
Or was that crack cocaine? I forget.
At any rate, if you can get past all the teapot tempests that have troubled the concept of Service Oriented Architectures recently and actually begin to implement...
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by Scott Wilson on June 11, 2009
I posted a couple of weeks ago a reference to a recent Gartner study showing that some 40% of companies engaging in SOA projects do not associate ROI metrics with those projects. I posited at the time...
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by Scott Wilson on May 26, 2009
So I have a question for the audience: when you are measuring ROI on SOA projects, are you looking at just the SOA team production, or do you look at secondary effects?
That's assuming you look ...
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by Scott Wilson on January 23, 2009
It's been a few weeks since the dustup over whether SOA is dead or not (consensus: not), a tempest in a teapot kicked off by Anne Thomas Manes claiming that it was the recession that did it, in th...
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by Scott Wilson on October 2, 2008
When I first mentioned Microsoft's foray into healthcare information systems, brought on by the purchase of a system called Azyxxi which was purchased from Medstar Health in 2006 and has since b...
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by Scott Wilson on August 29, 2008
That is the interesting assertion that Nicholas Petreley makes in this article at CIO Magazine, but I am hard pressed to see the argument for it even after reading through it twice.
Petreley starts w...
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by Scott Wilson on June 16, 2008
When I first discussed the concept of "JaBoWS," the acronym coined by Joe McKendrick standing for "Just a Bunch of Web Services," or in other words, not SOA, I expressed the opinio...
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by Scott Wilson on May 27, 2008
I have recently discussed my skepticism over the use of mashups as business tools, but there isn't much question that such products are well in the offing and will be pushed hard on businesses in ...
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by Scott Wilson on May 16, 2008
I've historically been pretty bullish on the whole concept of mashups, particularly end-user mashup technologies which promise to offer the next step in offering the average user programmer-like p...
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by Scott Wilson on April 9, 2008
Maybe it's just the way I am wired, but all this social networking stuff, all the time, is starting to get on my nerves. So perhaps I was predisposed to react poorly when I saw IBM's announce...
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by Scott Wilson on February 5, 2008
Nick Malick has an interesting (long) post up today on Inside Architecture describing a conceptual framework for standardizing line-of-business (LOB) applications.
Nick's model breaks down into t...
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by Scott Wilson on January 29, 2008
First, an aside; do you think that I wind up putting up a bunch of posts about one company within a week because I somehow become attuned to their name particularly, or do you think that there is some...
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by Scott Wilson on December 20, 2007
John Halamka, who you may be familiar with as the blogging CIO of Harvard Medical School, also chimes in on the subject today detailing how HMS and CareGroup have used the concept to standardize their...
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by Scott Wilson on December 20, 2007
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) can be a difficult concept to wrap your head around, which is really more a comment on the concept than the capabilities of your head-like "Web 2.0" there...
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by Scott Wilson on December 7, 2007
If you are a CIO you have probably sat through more sales pitches than you care to remember, and of late some of those are probably for products which promise to deliver you a Service Oriented Archite...
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by Scott Wilson on December 6, 2007
Okay, how is this for innovation, then? Microsoft and the Illinois State Police have been collaborating on a project called "FusionX" which is designed to provide an architectural and best p...
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by Scott Wilson on October 30, 2007
Microsoft today announced a new, amorphous project entitled "Oslo" which encompasses the corporation's "Software + Services" roadmap for the coming years. "Software + serv...
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by Scott Wilson on October 8, 2007
It's been taken more or less as an article of faith that you can't get SOA in a box, and that the vendors who have been trying to package and offer it as such have been fishing for easy money ...
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by Scott Wilson on September 28, 2007
Sometimes the easiest way to describe something to non-technical people is to leave the technical bits out of your description and just talk about the functionality.
I personally feel this way about ...
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by Scott Wilson on September 26, 2007
Mike Kavis at ITToolbox has a good article up on his approach to "selling" SOA approaches to executives. As you might expect if you have ever done any of this sort of lobbying, it revolves a...
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by Scott Wilson on September 24, 2007
So we have seen advice recently on conducting a revolution over the IT department, and now we're getting advised on how to conduct guerilla SOA operations. It's a wild IT world out there, I te...
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by Scott Wilson on September 13, 2007
I just noticed that this blog didn't have an SOA category-serious problem in today's enterprise IT environment. So I added one and will be christening it with this post (also changed "ASP...
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