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Joe McKendrick is an author and independent analyst who tracks the impact of information technology on management and markets. Joe is also SOA community manager for ebizQ, and speaks frequently on Enterprise 2.0 and SOA topics at industry events and Webcasts. He also serves as lead analyst and author of...- more about Joe McKendrick »
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- Can a dose of SOA relieve tension?
- Quote of the week: "[Independent business units] are constantly seeking to diverge in order to meet the specific needs of their customers. At the same time IT continues to work towards increased centralization. As you can imagine, this is creating some tension.... Is SOA the way that...
- Tags: Information Technology, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Explaining SOA failure to the boss: here are some real good excuses
- 'On the bright side, 70% of our initiatives fail anyway' by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- SOA: it's only rocket science
- What can go wrong with SOA? Let me count the ways. Better yet, Miko Matsumura, Bjoern Brauel, and Jignesh Shah, all with SoftwareAG, have done the counting for us, in a new book that shows how to overcome various SOA issues, called "SOA Adoption for Dummies." (Available...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Deep down inside, on a subconscious level, the business loves SOA, right?
- I recall the words of one observer a couple of years back: "How many businesspeople do you know have ever come begging to you for SOA?" Geek & Poke's Oliver Widder picked up on my latest post on SOA business issues behind SOA acceptance: by Joe...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- IDC-HP study: SOA targets the business, but is the business sold on SOA?
- CIOs, developers, operations, and business see SOA through different lenses by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., SOA, International Data Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-11-15
- Whatever happened to the 'middle' in middleware?
- Quote of the week: "In the mid 1990s, 'middle' meant 'the gaps between applications and software components.' Middleware was technology you turned to in order to try to build distributed systems: transaction processing middleware, database middleware, object middleware... Middleware was a technological concept. ...Now, 'middle' means...
- Tags: Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- SOA's 'decline' may be overstated, but companies still want results
- Is SOA faltering, or just ubiquitous? by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Forbes exposes SOA's 'dirty little secret'
- Does SOA put IT departments into the software manufacturing business? by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: Forbes, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Manufacturing, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick, Application, Information Technology, Dan Woods, Strategy, Management
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- Still coding after all these years....
- SOA nirvana may still be a ways off... Geek & Poke's Oliver Widder picked up on my recent post on Gartner's downbeat SOA assessment, and notes that with the glacial pace of progress, hard-coding will probably be with us for some time to come. ...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- If SOA were an issue in this week's presidential election...
- Quote of the week: (Great hypothetical of a presidential candidate's stand on REST...) "So the good folks of America need to know more about this so-called REST architectural style. Who is REST, and why does he want to hurt Joe the Systems Integrator? REST...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Taxes, Free Trade, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- Gartner: SOA sinking into trough of disillusionment
- Lack of skills, lack of a business case put a damper on SOA by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: Gartner Inc., SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- Survey: Companies struggle with SOA's hard-to-pin-down ROI
- Savings from services reuse is the most common economic benefit in SOA projects globally by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: ROI, SOA, Survey, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Roi/Tco, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- Conflict between Rich Internet Apps and SOA? Say it isn't so
- SOA is too coarse-grained, while RIA is too fine-grained by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick, Rich Internet Application
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Microsoft: shaky future or rocking and rolling?
- Can Microsoft turn Joe the Plumber on to SOA? by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: SOA, Microsoft Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick, Apple Macs, Cloud Computing, Collaboration, Strategy, Management
- Blog posts 2008-11-02
- SOA fear factor
- Oftentimes, the SOA market can seem a little scary, as Greg the Architect finds out. Happy Halloween! by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-31
- Best SOA governance is hard to see
- Quote of the day: "My view on governance is that it is about guiding an organization to a desired behavior. If the organization is behaving that way, no one even realizes that governance is there, simply because the desired behavior has become second nature." ...
- Tags: SOA, SOA Governance, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- Who buys the first round of SOA?
- Business value of SOA needs to be sold early and often, but what is the business value? by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- Situational awareness, thanks to SOA-driven dashboard
- Everyone knows what a dashboard can do, and yes, that's SOA behind your dashboard. So, therefore, for dashboard presentations that really dig into what's happening across the enterprise, the business should be more than willing to support SOA. Rich Seeley recently posted some perspectives on Oracle's Business...
- Tags: Dashboard, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Software, Web Services, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Why 'Event Driven Architecture' is more than 'Complex Event Processing'
- Today's mantra: "EDA is an architecture; CEP is a technique..." Jack van Hoof, who has written extensively on all things EDA, says there have been one too many instances in which the terms EDA Event Driven Architecture and CEP Complex Event Processing have been...
- Tags: Event, EDA, CEP, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Productivity, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Analyst: 'SOA is working'
- To some, a service is a service is a service. But not every service should be expected to deliver business value by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: SOA, Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
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