Enterprise Architecture on Ulitzer
Is SOA dead? This question keeps popping up every now and then within the IT
community and though we all seem to agree that SOA is far from dead something
has indeed radically changed: our expectations. Just a few years ago, perhaps
months, we considered SOA to be the solution to all of our (IT) problems,
promising to unleash the power of our business, and that just by thinking
'services'!
But judging by the decreasing number (still a lot anyhow) of events and focus
around SOA it's quite obvious that SOA has been somehow a disappointment. The
question is why? What did SOA promise that it did not deliver?
If we just focus on SOA’s technical aspects I do believe SOA has been
immensely successful, I don't think there are a lot of companies ... (more)
SOA and integration have been working together so well that we tend to forget
that SOA is not just about integrating and we often refer to SOA itself as
mainly an integration architecture. The word ‘integration’ has been used
for decades to describe the possibility for systems to interact, which makes
it confusing when applying it to the SOA domain where it might be relevant to
distingui... (more)
I’ve been to dozens of SOA lectures, presentations and conferences and
though I considered some (the first ones) to be very interesting as I
approached the subject, it soon started to get a bit boring as I easily could
anticipate what the presenters were going to say: why adopt SOA, how will
your company benefit from SOA, the possibilities SOA gives you, etc. etc.
It’s fair to say that the... (more)
We all are aware of the importance of BPM (where ‘M’ stands for
modeling) for good business governance. BPM is the discipline of describing
business processes in a uniform and ordered fashion. Documenting your
business processes allows you to easily review them, share them and get
control over them. Standardizing on one BPM tool makes it easier for the
business to work with ... (more)
Aristo Togliatti works as an IT Architect for the Swedish Railways (SJ). Previously he worked as Enterprise Architect at SVT, the Swedish State Broadcaster.
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