http://www4.sungard.com/blogs/darrenWesemann Darren Wesemann on SunGard Technology Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:34:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Governance is one of those terms, which when applied to IT tends to mean different things to different people.  SOA Governance, for example could refer to policy management, design repository processes, quality control, and even development methodologies.  Wikipedia provides the following definition of SOA Governance: "SOA Governance is an emerging discipline ... http://www4.sungard.com/blogs/darrenWesemann/2008/08/18/governance-applied-to-soa-saas-bpm-ecm-etc/ As a follow on to my Financial Times article here, I’d like to further point out that as many debate how long it takes for the benefits of SOA to be realized, proper context of which benefits is important, because all benefits are not created equal.  The statement I referred ... http://www4.sungard.com/blogs/darrenWesemann/2008/06/23/expect-agility-first-cost-efficiency-comes-later-much-later/ SunGard meets regularly with its customers both individually as well as in groups and forums to gather input and validate direction.  One such counsel is the CSA & Infinity Customer Advisory Board, which is made up of technology leaders from a cross-section of the market we address.  In a recent ... http://www4.sungard.com/blogs/darrenWesemann/2008/05/03/soa-top-down-and-bottom-up-flexibility-and-reuse/ I find it fascinating to watch the current battles between application platforms for the SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) paradigm.  I can’t help imagining what the application delivery landscape will look like in 10 years.  Clearly, SaaS abstracts a number of things away, such as the Operating System (no longer visible, because in a ... http://www4.sungard.com/blogs/darrenWesemann/2008/04/12/what-will-app-platforms-look-like-in-10-years/ I get a fair amount of email with comments on my blog entries… usually people mention they have company policies that prohibit them from commenting on public blogs, (mostly Tier-1 Banks), so they send their comments via email instead of posting.  Because I comment on SOA in the Financial Services ... http://www4.sungard.com/blogs/darrenWesemann/2008/03/04/bpm-a-key-to-enabling-business-with-soa/ I regularly get to hear various vendor pitches on their SOA offerings.  It never ceases to amaze me how many pitch their offering as a “complete package”.  I usually get the biggest chuckle when a vendor merely dresses up a message involving an app that has existed for year, which ... http://www4.sungard.com/blogs/darrenWesemann/2008/02/21/the-everything-soa-fantasy/ At the Gartner BPM Summit last week it was apparent that a lot of BPM vendors are now making mention of SOA and some of SaaS.  Although I agree there is tremendous power and opportunity in these complementary concepts (see my blog on SOA+BPM+SaaS here), based upon what I saw ... http://www4.sungard.com/blogs/darrenWesemann/2008/02/13/bpm-utilities-by-themselves-versus-soa-saas-and-content/ People used to talk about centralizing everything to make an SOA work (centralized ESB, centralized registry, centralized policy enforcement, etc).  Although centralizing a team to manage an overall SOA effort is still a very popular and successful strategy, the centralization of the supporting technologies isn’t necessary (or practical) in many ... http://www4.sungard.com/blogs/darrenWesemann/2007/12/17/federation-is-a-key-to-soa/ The SOA Forum surveyed over 500 organizations and concluded that nine out of ten haven’t figured out SOA governance.  I’m quoting it here because this find actually matches my experience with SOA initiatives I’m seeing in financial services IT organizations.  The banks that have advanced their SOA initiatives certainly have ... http://www4.sungard.com/blogs/darrenWesemann/2007/10/06/soa-governance-largely-not-established/ This might sound shocking coming from a CTO, but SOA isn’t about technology, it’s about facilitating business.  Of course all of IT could be viewed that way.  I go deep into SOA projects in financial institutions on a regular basis and I find many of them initiated and driven out ... http://www4.sungard.com/blogs/darrenWesemann/2007/09/27/soa-a-business-facilitator/