SOA

The Newest from SOA: The SOA Ontology Technical Standard

By Heather Kreger The Open Group just announced the availability of The Open Group SOA Ontology Technical Standard. Ontology?? Sounds very ‘semantic Web,’ doesn’t it? Just smacks of reasoning engines. What on earth do architects using SOA want with reasoning engines? Actually, Ontologies…

Maintaining a Service Mentailty

On Twitter, Brenda Michelson of Elemental Links started a conversation with the question: Do #entarch frameworks enable or constrain practice of (value from) enterprise architecture? In my comments back to Brenda, it became clear to me that there’s a trap that many…

The Strategic Value of SOA

Just as I thought my academic publication career was over, today I noticed that the International Journal of Information Technology and Management finally published our comparative case study on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in the banking sector. The article is an updated and…

A Lesson in Service Management

In the Wired magazine article on the relationship between AT&T and Apple (see: Bad Connection: Inside the iPhone Network Meltdown), the author, Fred Vogelstein, presents a classic service management problem. In the early days of the iPhone, when data usage was coming…

eReaders for Kids

Barnes and Noble has introduced a $149 Wi-Fi version of its Nook eReader. This has now reached a price point where I think parents may consider purchasing one for their children. Having recently moved, I know where my budget for book purchases…

What is Architecturally Significant?

What looks to be a very simple question is actually a very tough one. The answer to this is of particular importance to a domain architecture team (a team whose scope is larger than a single project or solution), but the principles…

Musings with John Schlesinger

John Schlesinger is an event thinker par excellence. So whenever I get the chance, I visit him in London to validate some thinking - or just to spend time with a terrific guy! So on a recent trip to London the subject…
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