Merely putting SOA into your proposal or as a stated capability is no longer going to be a “deal clincher” or a key “business differentiator”. The counterview I hear practitioners in SOA will say is that SOA is not just the standardized…
When Cloud reaches its fully adopted level, it will influence application architectures by driving them to be more componentized and service-oriented to support agility, commoditization and choice. Continue reading →
As the IT media is dominated by stories on Cloud and cyber-security, it will be refreshing to debate these in an open environment at The Open Group Conference, London, and discuss the many challenges we all face in navigating an increasingly complex…
In her IT Business Edge blog titled Enterprise Architecture Paying off at Del Monte, Loraine Lawson writes: Enterprise architecture (EA) befuddles me. As far as I can ascertain, it began as an IT function, but at some point, it was decided that…
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…
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…
When The Open Group develops a new standard, we take an end-to-end view of the ecosystem all the way through from customer requirements, developing consensus standards to certification and procurement. We aim to deliver standards that meet a need in the marketplace…
I'm in Chris Venable's session. Chris is a Senior Solution Architect at Walmart and runs in the #entarch crowd on Twitter. Chris promises me an architecture heavy, product light talk. Chris is lead architect on Walmart's SOA competency center. Opening the talk…
I'm in the Cloud Mini Tent now. It's packed with customers, analysts and press. IBMers are only being admitted after all interested customers are seated. It's that big of a deal. Hosting the session is Robert LeBlanc, Senior VP, Software Middleware Group.…
It's Day 2 of Impact, back in the "main tent" for the opening sessions. Opening today's session is Katie Linendoll. Katie is telling us how she was slaughtered by Watson in Jeopardy. Her take: $2. Watson's: significantly more. Yesterday, was focused on the…
This week, I'm at the IBM Impact 2011 conference in Vegas. Impact is IBM's Websphere focused conference. I expect to hear a lot about BPM, SOA and Cloud, Cloud, Cloud. Rocking opening band, including some iPad playing "strings". The conference theme is…
The emergence of service platforms and services enabled by the Cloud and its pervasiveness into social media and social networks underpinned by Cloud infrastructure and data centers; platforms enabling or launching other platforms. What does the future hold? Continue reading →