SOA
Microsoft Releases BizTalk Server 2010 to Manufacturers
We see enterprises focusing less on new middleware investment and more on reuse/shared services and cloud activities.
“SOA & Application Integration in Action” Virtual Conference
TechTarget’s fifth annual “SOA & Integration in Action Virtual Conference” is designed to help organizations succeed with their SOA and application-integration processes. This full-day virtual event on October 5 covers the tools, practices and important tradeoffs required for winning SOA projects. Gartner, Forrester and independent experts offer pragmatic SOA and integration strategies, analyses and insights [...]
Does it matter if it’s SOA or cloud services? Not to the business
Architecture is the missing ingredient needed to help cloud computing deliver to the business — but to date, “cloud architecture” has meant building or buying clouds, not leveraging them. Jason [Bloomberg] urges moving forward with “Enterprise Cloud Architecture” or “Cloud Consumption Architecture” to achieve business value.
RIP Enterprise Software?
Today, in spite of a full decade of vendors paying lip service to the benefits of SOA. Customers are more than unhappy with enterprise software. They’re pissed. And they’re not going to take it any more.
Tools emerging for integration and orchestration of BPM with SOA
“One of the biggest stories in SOA has been around the composition of services,” said Ron Schmelzer, senior analyst at ZapThink, an SOA and cloud analysis and consulting firm based in Baltimore. “If you look at the ideas of BPM, it’s the same idea: You can represent the process outside system then change the process [...]
ZapThink Training Offerings
ZapThink Training ZapThink offers a range of different courses and training options for both individuals and organizations. We offer a regular schedule of open enrollment courses, and we can also bring any course we offer in-house anywhere in the world for a discounted fee per student. Licensed ZapThink Architect Program ZapThink’s flagship offering is the [...]
Transtitioning to SOA
This was a presentation I conducted at an ITWeb SOA Conference in Johannesburg South Africa during October 2009. The presentation illustrates what an organization needs to do to transition to SOA at a strategic level, at both an enterprise and IT architecture level as well as a showing a road map that indicates how to [...]
SOA Infrastructure Plan
Exercise 5: Based upon Royal United Services Institute “A Service-Oriented Approach to Delivering NEC” Whitepaper zapthink Excercise #5 – SOA Infrastructure Plan.ppt (1 MB)
lza soa infrastructure homework #5
lza soa infrastructure homework #5 lza home exercise #5.pdf (55 KB)
Development of Business Case for SOA
Development of Business Case for SOA zapthink homework Exercise3.pdf (48 KB)
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