Comment: SOA and the portfolio
Increasingly, serious SOA efforts are about managing a portfolio. That means sorting through the corporate assets to see what should be service-enabled, what should be left as is, and what should be...
View ArticleSecurity architecture meets enterprise architecture
The Open Group got together with the SABSA Institute to give a new security architecture flavor to TOGAF, The Open Group Architecture Framework. It takes the form of some new guidance for working the...
View ArticleThe Big Dig and difficult software
Software is magic – sometimes it’s magic out of control. Bad software projects, SOA or otherwise, need good analogies. So, we talk about The Long March, The Project from Hell and so on. A recent...
View ArticleCloud computing, virtual image sprawl and labor costs
COMMENTARY – The virtual machine image, a powerful driver of cloud computing, may be described as a tiger few can easily ride. The VMs are proliferating. Earlier this month, no less a personage than...
View ArticleBusiness processes benefit from SOA at The Open Group’s Cannes event
This week in Cannes, France, IT leaders gathered sea-side to discuss the current state—and future— of enterprise transformation. At The Open Group Conference, industry experts and entrepreneurs...
View ArticleGartner: Only business-driven EA will deliver value
According to Gartner, a host of factors—ranging from cloud and social to big data and mobile technologies—are altering the EA landscape. As a result of those changes, enterprise architects may have...
View ArticleCaterpillar tackles transformation with portfolio tools
With well over $100 billion in revenues, Caterpillar, Inc. is the world’s largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment. It has also been accumulating acquisitions at a frenzied pace in...
View ArticleDeveloping Digital Disruption: On tap at Forrester AD event
At Forrester Research’s Application Development & Delivery Forum last year, we were introduced to the idea that innovative disruption was the principal force propelling the future of IT. In the...
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Polymita BPM to join JBoss middleware line
While outlining its intentions for its new FuseSource acquisition, Red Hat’s JBoss group this week discussed plans for incorporating BPM technology it recently bought from Spanish BPM company Polymita....
View ArticleMeeting the growing need for apps
IT is changing. And certain companies are going to face the changes better than others, Andy Kyte, Gartner vice president and research fellow, told a crowd at the Application Architecture, Development...
View ArticleSOA best practice: prepare for unknown futures
A recent piece by Stephanie Mann looks at SOA design issues today. After over ten years of SOA, some best practices are still emerging. Among the notables Mann spoke with is Robert Daigneau. With...
View ArticleModularizing legacy Java apps: Don’t reinvent the wheel
For enterprise architects, taking an “out with the old, in with the new” mentality can be tempting when modularizing large legacy Java applications, but that could be a mistake. That’s according to...
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