Tag Archives: Information-As-A-Service

Calling All Architects – Get Engaged in THE Most Important Discussion on Data Services and Data Integration

Do you believe that a solid and well thought through data architecture for efficiently accessing, integrating and processing data is foundational to maximizing business value? Do you want to hear from your peers in the industry, about how they are solving data integration challenges such as speeding-up time to delivery of data, data quality and [...]

How To Get Started with Data-Orientation – What Architects Told Me…

In my previous post To Successfully Service-Orient, Data-Orient First!, I shared the input I received from architects and IT managers, to serve as a handy check-list for ensuring a solid foundation for success in service-oriented infrastructures. The following are the data-orientation capabilities they recommended as a first step in successfully service-orienting an infrastructure: Easy access [...]

What Is SOA? And, If You Are Doing It, Is Your SOA Going To Die Before It Has A Chance To Live?

Before I start on this extremely polarizing topic, I really want to ask the question – do you want your SOA to be ineffective or die before it has a chance to live? As I mentioned in an earlier blog, SOA does have a significantly big “blind spot,” which so often gets ignored due to [...]

Why the Downturn is Good for SOA, Information-as-a-Service or Data Services!

With so much talk out there about how SOA is being affected by the downturn, a recent article by David Linthicum seems to point in the direction of pragmatic optimism. In a column entitled Why the Downturn is Good for SOA from a recent issue of SOAWorld Magazine, Dave says that “as budgets contract and [...]

What is Service-Oriented Architecture or What is SOA? Real-World Observations!

Before we can have lengthy discussions around whether SOA is dead, or SOA is alive and kicking, I thought that it would serve us all well, including myself, to get to a generally agreed upon definition of what exactly we are talking about – what is Service-Oriented Architecture or SOA? According to Wikipedia, “service-oriented architecture [...]