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...

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...

© fsse8info 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Microsoft today announced a new, amorphous project entitled "Oslo" which encompasses the corporation's "Software + Services" roadmap for the coming years. "Software +...

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......

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...

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...

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...

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...