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What Happened To SOA?

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:00:00 EDT

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'!

Why All This Fuzz About SOA?

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:45:00 EST

Vague, undocumented and double or triple meaning definitions are not uncommon to the IT world but I must say that SOA beats them all. If there is a commonly accepted definition I haven't found it yet, the ones I have encountered so far not only differ on what SOA is but they do it on so many different levels of abstraction that it is indeed difficult to get a good picture of what SOA stands for.

SOA – Integration or Interaction?

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:45:00 EDT

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 distinguish between integrating and interacting. The point is that integration and interaction are two different things but how they differ depends on the way you define integration.

SOA World Magazine: The Value of Process Driven Architecture

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:45:00 EDT

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 the models making them understandable to everyone. Once you have a good understanding of what your business processes look like you can improve them, modify them etc.