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SOA: Debate on Measuring the ROI

By Dick Weisinger

The Datamation article in Does SOA have an ROI has kicked off a debate about SOA and its benefits.  A clear measure of SOA’s success is the overwhelming acceptance of it as a best-practice architecture.  Gartner found that 44 percent of companies

SaaS/DaaS: Data Sources Powering Mashups

By Dick Weisinger

SaaS (Software as a Service) are hosted on-demand browser-based applications.  Parallel to SaaS is something I’m calling DaaS (Data as a Service), a trend that is rapidly evolving.  DaaS combines elements of SaaS and SOA and it is the force

SOA: Black Belts for IT Architectures?

By Dick Weisinger

We’ve heard through Jim Bole, former Formtek-er and now VP of SOA Solutions at webMethods, that webMethods and ZapThink have collaborated on the creation of an online SOA training site called SOAMasterClass.  They’ve also scheduled a number of upcoming free

ECM & IBM: FileNet Integration Strategy

By Dick Weisinger

It’s been one year since IBM announced their Information on Demand Initiative (IOD).  Their plan has been to build an on-demand strategy that combines elements of software, research and services, highlighting SOA as a key element in their approach.  This week IBM gave an update

SOA: Revolution in Computing — Event Stream Processing

By Dick Weisinger

Oracle proposed a vision of next-generation SOA called SOA 2.0 based on asynchronous events being triggered by alerts and event notifications.  While the Oracle marketing machine faltered with that vision, the idea an SOA architecture with ‘smarter’ events may not