Data & AI

Looks like my previous posting on this topic was pretty timely.  Joe McKendrick (over at ZDNet) just today talked about SOA governance stifling agility.

In Joe's article, he asked the question of whether or not...

Last week I attended the Forrester Enterprise Architect forum and heard a pretty consistent cry from people walking around and stopping at the booth; "How do I implement SOA in a distributed...

Wow, things have really changed. I remember the first WS on Wall Street show I was at in '03 (if memory serves). It was all about "web service proxies." It was hard to tell the differentiation between the vendors, and,...

It's pretty well accepted that business agility is the holy grail of SOA. And most people agree that strong (SOA) governance is a key requirement for an effective SOA infrastructure. So, why am I here telling you that governance is a barrier to business agility?

Historically, strong...

I'm not sure what you'd call it but I sure hope I never find out!

I think I'm starting at the end... where am I? Oh, yeah - SOA Governance. Right.

In 2006, when we (Actional) were first acquired (by...

No, I'm not having a fat day. I'm just exhausted from talking with people who are trying to boil the ocean in order to cook a couple of fish for dinner.

A question came up yesterday about the "tight coupling" between...