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The Architect View of SOA

By jyothi.swaroop on October 20, 2009 8:16 PM

Here is an interesting article by Bob Rhubart that talks about collaboration across stakeholders as key for SOA success. "A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a busy place, a complex clockwork of interconnected, interdependent, and widely distributed moving parts, including those...

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SOA Governance for Architects - Oracle Open World

By jyothi.swaroop on October 10, 2009 1:09 PM

Oracle is hosting 4 enterprise customers to discuss real-world SOA Governance best practices at Oracle Open World on Monday, 4 PM. This session outlines the best practices for Architects to achieve maximum returns from SOA Governance initiatives. Hear from industry...

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SOA Strategies for Lasting Success

By jyothi.swaroop on September 10, 2009 11:41 AM

Streamline your SOA: Risks, Strategies and Payoffs With growing adoption of SOA taking place across your enterprise, the time is right to replicate some of the early successes on a larger scale. If you want your organization to reach its...

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Avoid Disaster, Embrace People-Processes Like Change Management

By Dave Berry on June 26, 2009 2:50 PM

While discussing organizational governance processes in the last entry, I realized that endpoint management, UDDI and service bus is a topic probably best described as a technical governance process and thus really more about tools than people-processes. In contrast, I...

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Tactical SOA Governance Processes. AKA, where to start?

By Dave Berry on June 2, 2009 10:27 AM

I was discussing with a solutions consultant recently the perceived complexity of putting in place an initial governance solution. In following up on Mike van Alst’s recent blog on SOA governance processes, I wondered what tactical processes would be approachable...

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Frank Kenney on how to fail at SOA

By Bob Rhubart on October 21, 2008 7:08 AM

A post on Joe McKendrick's SOA in Action Blog includes a transcript of Gartner analyst Frank Kenney's remarks during a keynote address at last month's virtual SOA Governance conference presented by ebizQ.  Among Kenney's observations:  "If you are moving towards...

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SOA Governance Breakout at Oracle OpenWorld

By Bob Rhubart on September 17, 2008 10:43 AM

In addition to the invitation-only SOA Customer Advisory Board (CAB) event next week (Thursday, 9/25/08) at Oracle OpenWorld, the Oracle SOA Governance product team has announced that it will host a special SOA Governance Break-out session. This breakout is open...

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Take Baby Steps for Balanced SOA Governance

By Bob Rhubart on September 3, 2008 7:06 AM

In taking that incremental approach to avoiding "overweight" SOA governance, it's important to apply the right governance model...

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