For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

SOA Policy Management: Vendors And Products

The Market Landscape For SOA Policy Management Infrastructure And Services

by Randy Heffner, February 6, 2009

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) policy management is an important and emerging subset of SOA strategy, SOA governance, and SOA platform planning. Because SOA policy features and functions are arising within multiple types of products, many different . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Building Interoperability And Federation Into Your SOA Platform Strategy  (2.6 MB PPT)

by Mike Gilpin, December 16, 2008

If your SOA platform must span multiple diverse domains, then it should become a federation of interoperable SOA infrastructure elements that work together to ease and control service usage across the enterprise.

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Establishing A Solid Architecture Foundation For SOA Policy Infrastructure

Plan To Extend Your SOA Platform With SOA Policy Management

by Randy Heffner, November 24, 2008

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) policy adds important business and technical flexibility to an SOA-based solution, and it requires coordinated use of features and functions from multiple types of software tools and infrastructure products. Architects . . .

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Pursuing SOA In Hard Times

Adjusting Best Practices For SOA When Resources Are Tight

by Randy Heffner, November 11, 2008

Big bang approaches to service-oriented architecture (SOA) are hard to justify at any time but near impossible to justify in hard times. Instead, you must tie SOA progress directly to current-day solution delivery projects. This presents a big risk: Tactical . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

An Interoperable And Federated SOA Platform Strategy Matters To App Dev Pros, Too

by Mike Gilpin, October 10, 2008

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) silos are a thorn in the side of application development professionals, but new SOA strategies can alleviate some of that pain. Through federated SOA, a solution is around the corner, but it will require app dev pros . . .

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Building Interoperability And Federation Into Your SOA Platform Strategy

by Mike Gilpin, October 9, 2008

As large and heterogeneous enterprises reach greater service-oriented architecture (SOA) maturity, enterprise architects often find that different business areas or domains need different things from an enterprise-level SOA platform. Accommodating these . . .

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Building A Strong SOA Policy Life Cycle

Integrate Policy Into Your SOA Governance And Service Life-Cycle Processes

by Randy Heffner, September 9, 2008

Policy management builds added flexibility and business value to your strategy for service-oriented architecture (SOA). Achieving these benefits requires you to enhance your SOA processes and add new features to your SOA infrastructure. From service portfolio . . .

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

How To Get Started On SOA Policy Management

Increase Your SOA Strategy's Business And Technical Flexibility

by Randy Heffner, August 26, 2008

Policy-based processing increases flexibility by allowing key business and technical decisions to be easily visible and changeable rather than being hard-coded into applications. With service-oriented architecture (SOA), policy is emerging as a generalized . . .

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Topic Overview: Service-Oriented Architecture For Enterprise Architects

by Randy Heffner, Larry Fulton, August 18, 2008

Most architects now recognize that service-oriented architecture (SOA) is much more than Web services (WS) standards and better application integration. SOA continues to gain industry recognition as a key element of strategic business transformation — . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Topic Overview: Service-Oriented Architecture For Apps Dev And Program Management Pros

by Randy Heffner, Mike Gilpin, August 18, 2008

For a single, isolated solution delivery project, it's OK to think of service-oriented architecture (SOA) as just Web services (WS) standards for better application integration: Your application needs something from another one, and WS technology bridges . . .

For CIOs

Topic Overview: Service-Oriented Architecture For CIOs

by Randy Heffner, Alexander Peters, Ph.D., August 15, 2008

The worst CIO misunderstanding about service-oriented architecture (SOA) is to think of it only as another technical initiative for software reuse. Although SOA's reuse potential is real and good, its business impact goes much further: In Forrester surveys, . . .

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Leveraging Your Investment In SOA Service Life-Cycle Management

Tools Can Bring Value To Other IT Processes

by Larry Fulton, July 11, 2008

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) service life-cycle management solutions, sometimes called SOA repositories, are significant investments, with enterprise licenses ranging from $300,000 to well over $1 million. With this price tag, leveraging the investment . . .

For Business Process & Applications Professionals

Enterprise Process Improvement Initiatives  (186 KB PPT)

by Andy Salunga, Elisse Gaynor, June 16, 2008

Enterprise Process Improvement Initiatives From: October 2007 North American Business Process And Applications Online Survey

For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Scoping Strategic SOA Projects

Five Steps Sourcing Professionals Will Need To Take

by Tim Sheedy, March 26, 2008

While many large enterprises have already made the move toward enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA), other firms are just starting down this path now. And in many cases, no one in the organization really understands the full scope of an enterprise . . .

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

Service Providers Need To Better Prepare For Offshore SOA Projects

The Impact Of SOA On Offshoring: The Service Provider Perspective

by Pascal Matzke, Jost Hoppermann, February 14, 2008

As companies embark on their journey toward implementing service-oriented architectures (SOAs), they require assistance and support from service providers with sufficient skills and experience in tackling the ongoing alignment of the project with their . . .

For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

How To Fit Service Providers To Your SOA Needs

by Tim Sheedy, November 20, 2007

Some organizations that have made the commitment to SOA are not yet witnessing the full benefits. While this may be justifiable for some, in general it's not an acceptable outcome for either the business in relation to meeting its objectives or IT in . . .

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Talking About SOA  (244 KB PPT)

by Larry Fulton, April 6, 2007

The following slides provide a discussion map for conducting effective SOA discussions.

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

When To Use Which Type Of SOA Specialty Product

A Quick Guide To Five SOA Specialty Product Categories And Alternatives

by Randy Heffner, Larry Fulton, January 29, 2007

As architects and developers plan their future service-oriented architecture (SOA) platforms, one of the biggest questions is when to use each of the new categories of SOA specialty products. It is a complex question because there is a high degree of . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Key SOA Success Factors: A Starter Kit For SOA

by Randy Heffner, July 25, 2006

The three keys for starting down the road to service-oriented architecture (SOA) are: 1) adopt an evolutionary approach; 2) focus on business pain points; and 3) use street-level strategy to get there. Within this broad framework, there are different . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

SOA Investment Strategies

Case Studies On How Enterprises Are Paying For SOA

by Randy Heffner, May 19, 2006

With increasing adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA) comes increasing priority to answer the question "How do I pay for it?" The best SOA investment strategies use portfolio management, lightweight SOA visions, and an evolutionary, street-level . . .