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SOA: Externalizing Services — Sharing the Data

By Dick Weisinger

Once a set of SOA services are established and proving value internally to an organization, often the question comes up as to how to share some of those services with organizations that are partners, suppliers or customers to you. Often

SOA: Shift to a Business-Centric Focus

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprises are beginning to take steps away from SOA planning and prototyping and are now deploying SOA technology. IBM found in their Impact 2008 survey of 300 enterprises that SOA deployments are increasing. About half of the companies surveyed said

SOA: Moving Beyond Web Services

By Dick Weisinger

JaBOWS — Just a Bunch of Web Services. That’s a term that ZDNet blogger Joe McKendrick has used to describe what many companies have implemented. Web Services often are used as basic building blocks in creating SOA implementations, but Web

SOA: Spending and Acceptance on the Rise — But what about reuse?

By Dick Weisinger

53 percent of companies have adopted Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) and those companies, on average, are spending $1.4 million on SOA implementation. 45 percent of adopters are spending over $500,000. And the acceptance rate of the technology is growing at

SOA: IBM Sees Need for T-Shaped Skills

By Dick Weisinger

IBM continues to warn of a Skills Shortage in SOA. Last fall an IBM-sponsored ZapThink survey found that more than half the companies surveyed had less than 25 percent of the skills needed to build out SOA-based enterprise solutions. In