8 characteristics of successful SOA implementations
The SOA Consortium and CIO magazine recently announced the winners of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Case Study Competition. All of the winners successfully delivered business or mission value using an SOA approach -- and they all shared these 8 characteristics.
OppenheimerFunds gets ROI from Agile, SOA
OppenheimerFunds used to have a data entry problem. Address changes that customers made on its website had to be manually re-entered into a variety of back-end systems before they went into effect. The company had a choice: to solve this one immediate problem, or to invest a little more time and money in order to plan a little bit further ahead.
A Sterling Example of SOA
Last week I promised to move from dissertation to illumination by shining a light on some sterling examples of real-world SOAs. In each case, the IT professionals leading these initiatives understood from the get-go that SOA is more about business processes than services.
Examining the Pieces of the Service Puzzle
Last week, I promised to explore the difference between architectures and service-oriented architectures. Here's the kicker: There isn't a difference. Or there's a world of difference. It gets down to semantics.
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