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SOA/SaaS: SAP offers up A1S as On-Demand Platform

By Dick Weisinger

In the true spirit of SAP R/3-like product naming conventions, SAP has introduced the A1S on-demand platform.  [What does SAP stand for? — Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte (Systems, Applications, Products).]  But then Amazon’s names for EC2 and S3 services in the

SOA: Benefits of reusability aren't free

By Dick Weisinger

Monday’s blog described how culture and governance issues are showing up ever more frequently as barriers to successful SOA implementations.  Another surprise in the SOA arena is that the touted SOA feature of reusability doesn’t always come for free. An

SOA: Turf Wars can Sabotage Success

By Dick Weisinger

There have been endless articles, surveys and reports that are all glowingly positive about SOA and its potential as the next-generation architecture.  But as the number of adopters increase and the number of SOA deployments grow in size within organizations

SOA: Secure Interoperability for Web Services

By Dick Weisinger

Progess on standards from the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) have been slow in coming.  But in early April the WS-I published a set of guidelines for secure Web Service interoperability. WS-I Basic Security Profile (BSP) 1.0 was approved after

SOA: IBM Bypasses Standards with new WSRR Release

By Dick Weisinger

UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integraion) has been a long neglected component of the SOA stack.  Its was designed as a registry for all Web Services information.  It is a catalog of metadata about and descriptions of Web Service interfaces.  UDDI is a tool for