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SOA: Dead or Alive?

By Dick Weisinger

Burton Group’s Anne Thomas Manes declared SOA dead in January, and since then analysts have been in a heated debate.  The debate continued publicly recently at the SD West Conference in Santa Clara, California.  The conference included a session called

SOA: REST Services Are Up in SOA Round Two

By Dick Weisinger

First generation SOA had a strong technology focus and front-and-center in that focus was SOAP-based Web Services.  But there’s been a backlash on SOAP and an effort to swing towards simplicity.  And because REST Web Services are proving that they

SOA: Shift Toward Lightweight REST Services

By Dick Weisinger

The velocity of SOA adoption is slowing considerably. And the organizations that are implementing SOA are choosing more lightweight technologies than the original vision of SOA. For example, use of SOAP protocol is way down. REST services are becoming the

SOA: Projects Delayed by Economic Slowdown

By Dick Weisinger

In the last part of 2008 Gartner reported that many organizations were delaying SOA projects and the number of organizations that had no plans to use SOA at all went from 6% in 2007 to 16% in late 2008. Then,

SOA: Dead, but Still Serves Up High Satisfaction

By Dick Weisinger

Levels of satisfaction for companies using SOA are soaring.  That’s despite the fact that analysts are delivering obituaries for the technology, and many companies are saying that in this down economy they’re eliminating spending on any new projects like SOA.