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SOA: SOA is Dead! Long Live Services Architecture!

By Dick Weisinger

Anne Thomas Manes of the Burton Group has declared SOA dead as a doorknob!  She wrote that “SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession. SOA is

SOA: Adoption Drops in 2008

By Dick Weisinger

SOA adoption peaked in 2007. Since the beginning of 2008, there has been a significant decline in the number of new adopters. The reasons: companies either viewed the leap as one they we’re prepared for in terms of IT skills,

WOA: The future of SOA?

By Dick Weisinger

First generation Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) services were built around technologies like SOAP and sophisticated WS-* specifications. But SOA has had a problem of bootstrapping itself into the mainstream and much of the delay in its uptake has been around

SOA: 10 ways that SOA is Failing

By Dick Weisinger

Netherlands-based TechWorld blogger Mike Kavis echoed Burton Group’s assessment that SOA failures are most often a result of problems with people and business culture based rather than technology problems. Kavis identified 10 reasons for SOA failures. His top five reasons

ECM: Document-centric SOA

By Dick Weisinger

SOA is tool for knitting together processes into something that is much more solid that the sum of its components. SOA services often expose data stored in structured data repositories like relational databases. But SOA can also unite unstructured data