Posts by: David Sprott

Beware gurus promoting their new book on SOA Governance

SearchSOA.com interviewed co-authors Thomas Erl and Anne Thomas Manes to discuss their recently published book, SOA Governance: Governing Shared Services On-Premise and in the Cloud (Prentice Hall, April 2011). The Q&A didn’t encourage me to buy their book. Question: How you define…

Beware gurus promoting their new book on SOA Governance

SearchSOA.com interviewed co-authors Thomas Erl and Anne Thomas Manes to discuss their recently published book, SOA Governance: Governing Shared Services On-Premise and in the Cloud (Prentice Hall, April 2011). The Q&A didn’t encourage me to buy their book. Question: How you define…

Version 3.0 of the CBDI-SAE UML Profile for SOA

Everware-CBDI has announced the immediate availability of the CBDI-SAE UML Profile for SOA V3 (SAE Profile). The SAE Profile makes Model Driven Architecture (MDA) for SOA practical for everyone. Whilst introducing a sensible level of compliance with industry standards such as SoaML,…

Version 3.0 of the CBDI-SAE UML Profile for SOA

Everware-CBDI has announced the immediate availability of the CBDI-SAE UML Profile for SOA V3 (SAE Profile). The SAE Profile makes Model Driven Architecture (MDA) for SOA practical for everyone. Whilst introducing a sensible level of compliance with industry standards such as SoaML,…

Microsoft buys Skype!

So Microsoft is to become the new owner of Skype! This is big news for us that run our business and personal communications on the platform. I suspect we were all relieved when eBay finally recognized the inevitable and sold a majority…

Microsoft buys Skype!

So Microsoft is to become the new owner of Skype! This is big news for us that run our business and personal communications on the platform. I suspect we were all relieved when eBay finally recognized the inevitable and sold a majority…

Parallel Universe Syndrome?

I have become increasingly concerned that in the typical enterprise the major business improvement disciplines operate to some extent as silos. EA is often disconnected from Business Architecture. BPM is frequently not well connected with EA and Application Modernization. Governance is commonly…

Parallel Universe Syndrome?

I have become increasingly concerned that in the typical enterprise the major business improvement disciplines operate to some extent as silos. EA is often disconnected from Business Architecture. BPM is frequently not well connected with EA and Application Modernization. Governance is commonly…

So Nobody is Doing EA Eh!

I get rather tired of the “Enterprise Architecture doesn’t work” debate. The latest comment from ZapThink is predicated solely on the fact that “architecture must precede build”, therefore because an enterprise, by definition already exists, architecture is redundant. In the line of…

So Nobody is Doing EA Eh!

I get rather tired of the “Enterprise Architecture doesn’t work” debate. The latest comment from ZapThink is predicated solely on the fact that “architecture must precede build”, therefore because an enterprise, by definition already exists, architecture is redundant. In the line of…

Silos, what silos?

Following on from my blog on "Beware the new silos!" today I was speaking with a business process analyst who briefed me on how his company, a medium sized financial services organization, is using a leading BPMS together with a collaboration based…

Silos, what silos?

Following on from my blog on "Beware the new silos!" today I was speaking with a business process analyst who briefed me on how his company, a medium sized financial services organization, is using a leading BPMS together with a collaboration based…
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