If ever there were four completely independent concepts (in terms of evolution) that are destined to be related (even in the immediately family) and together revolutionize our thinking about how software delivers solutions to meet agile needs business needs, it is SOA, SaaS, BPM and Open Source.
For a couple of decades people have made attempts […]
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There is a lot of attention currently about SOA offerings going vertical (check out IBM’s announcement here). We’ve been saying for years that the general everything-to-everybody nature of SOA has to get more specific to the business domain in order to address many of the challenges companies face in SOA implementations. Recently, SunGard announced Infinity, […]
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As a follow on regarding my blog on Financial Services SOA Adoption Challenges continued analysis from many is adding more color to the gotchas. CIO magazine ran an article in the May 1, 2007 issue entitled “Stuck in the SOA Soup”. The article points out there are 115 standards related to SOA (quoting Forester Research). […]
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This week in the April 30 InformationWeek publication there was short couple of paragraphs under the heading “SOA: A Warning Shot”. The short article reports that financial services firms that have implemented SOA’s are “… finding that they can be more expensive, less reliable, and harder to maintain than standalone applications” (quoting Sajay Sethunath, chief […]
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At any given time, SunGard has hundreds of active projects involving the decomposition and evolution of its systems, legacy and contemporary alike. We track and monitor these activities as an organization because many of them are collaborative in nature. Our SOA effort (the SunGard CSA) enables the collaboration by ensuring reusability of work done, common […]
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Since my posting last month regarding Software-as-a-Solution I’ve noticed a number of additional variations on SaaS, and I find the many options being discovered and used in the real-world very interesting. In this article I cover various other forms of XaaS (X-as-a-Service) or WaaS (Whatever-as-a-Service).
Various forms of service offerings have appeared on the Enterprise scene, […]
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A popular theme these days is the software distribution method known as Software-as-a-Service. Although it’s clear the capabilities of SaaS are finding tremendous uptake with applications such as CRM and related offerings, there are markets that require an enhanced context for software services to continue to grow. Financial Services, for instance require highly configurable services […]
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Just following up on my last post, more evidence that SOAs are living up to their hype is appearing. According to a recently published research from programming consultancy Evans Data Corp, nearly half of 400 Web Services programmers surveyed have already participated in successful SOA development efforts, and that SOA development efforts are finishing on time. Click more for analysis on this.
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I’ve noticed a number of articles and blogs recently bashing the adoption rate of SOA. From one that is on the front line every day with banks and their SOA efforts, I can honestly say with experience, that adoption is very much alive and well. I’m usually amazed at how hype cycles set unrealistic expectations; when will we learn that there is rarely any correlation between the hype and reality? I can only assume the expectations are what fuel the “where are the SOAs” boobing. Click more for some thoughts on this.
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