Data & AI

Joe McKendrick's recent post comments that many analysts are now putting SOA governance and SOA management tools into a single category. He cites arguments that they are in fact very different, stating that while governance is about managing the development and the life cycle of services,...

We have all seen google app engine, amazon's web services, SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) from Microsoft, and others. The whole premise behind the movement is to make your IT infrastructure "rentable". I for one think that this is both a great idea and a bad one all at once. For instance, it makes...

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Last week Jeremy Suratt made an interesting point on the Infor Tech Talk blog.  He says that event-driven architecture (EDA) is different from traditional service-oriented architecture (SOA) in the...

1+1=3: Marrying Best-of-Breed Tools for Business Process Governance
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 11:00 am EST
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Communication is the basis of any successful relationship, including the communications between business people and technologists....

If you were listening to the webinar I gave a few days ago, you probably remember the phone system going haywire with feedback (don't worry, if you listen to the recording we're posting, this will have been edited out).

One of the topics I was talking about right at the time the feedback...

Vincent Partington recently wrote on his blog "before you start writing your own services and your own ESB, have a look at what's available." Vincent point out the challenges of migrating from a home-brew ESBs and recommends against a "not invented here" attitude....