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SOA: Governance needs drive renewed interest in UDDI

By Dick Weisinger

Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) has been a long-ignored component of the SOA framework.  It is an open industry initiative that has been approved as an OASIS standard to allow the registration and discovery of web services.  The current specification is at version 3. UDDI

SOA: Shades of SOA

By Dick Weisinger

Last May at JavaOne, Oracle and Gartner outlined a vision of something that they called SOA 2.0.  They defined SOA 2.0 as a move away from ‘traditional SOA’ and Web Services based on a client-server model with services being treated

Enterprise 2.0: Grassroots Mashups + SOA = Managed Mashups ?

By Dick Weisinger

SOA has met with success and acceptance because of its ability to meld together so many disparate systems, uniting data by tunneling between isolated information silos.  But Web 2.0’s mashup combinations using technologies like RSS, REST and AJAX is achieving the same kind

SOA: Develop a Five-Year Plan for SOA Excellence

By Dick Weisinger

Another study has been released, this time by Butler and DataMonitor, predicting a slow but steady move towards industry-wide acceptance of SOA as the enterprise architecture of choice.  By 2012 Butler foresees a new landscape in businesses where IT interacts with the rest of

SOA + BPM: EAI evolves

By Dick Weisinger

Acronym and lovers of jargon have celebrated a pleasant holiday.  A new Forrester Wave study that came out just before Christmas created new BPM-space acronyms.  Forrester now divides BPM into two halves: IC-BPMS (Integration-Centric Business Process Management Suite) and HC-BPMS (Human-Centric Business