Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Tech Spectator: A Salute to Dan Vlamis' College Girlfriend Jeff Erickson interviews Dan Vlamis, of the Business Intelligence, Warehousing and Analytics Special Interest Group (BIWA SIG). (tags: oracle BIWASIG) Exploring Management 2.0 (Fusion ECM) "New, socially or democratically based management systems throw up their own barriers by lacking decision making responsibility and empowerment, " says Enterprise 2.0 expert and author Billy Cripe. "There's no place the buck stops in a...

ECM Insights: Oracle SOA and the future of BPM After attending an Oracle Fusion Middleware conference, Jonathan Bank sees reason for optimism "about the future of enabling Business Process Management (BPM) through implementation of a host of supporting technologies including SOA." (tags: soa bpm fusionmiddleware) Is SOA governance DOA? |Real World SOA | David Linthicum | InfoWorld "Many issues with governance have been around neglecting the people and processes within IT," writes...

Well, a few lines from it, anyway. Oracle's Andrew Sutherland invokes Monty Python and several other cultural references in this entertaining response to the "death of SOA" kerfuffle. Technorati Tags: otn, oracle, soa, annethomasmanes, andrewsutherland,

SOA and BPM: It's the Business, Stupid | SOA World Magazine "The harsh reality," writes Roger Strukhoff, "is that technology executives still tend to think of their platforms, networks, and IT infrastuctures first, even after years of being admonished to think of the business first." (tags: soa WOA bpm rogerstrukhoff)

SOA is...well...just SOA |Real World SOA | David Linthicum | InfoWorld "SOA is much less about technology these days, which is another good thing," writes David Linthicum,. "We get to the technology eventually, but the journey is what needs to be the focus. " (tags: soa davidlinthicum) SOA ROI, funding, and executive championship (The proverbial Proper Service definition) "SOA empowers an organization to be more agile and to have a longer benefit cycle from IT investments," says...

The Red Room - Oracle Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) GTMi Team Blog "SOA needs the most highly skilled technical and business resources, including key external consultants, that money can buy," says this unidentified Red Room blogger. "You get what you pay for in this game, and what you don’t want are unskilled consultants and staff putting your business under unnecessary risk." (tags: soa soagovernance soamaturity) SOA Governance vs SOA Maturity (The proverbial Proper...

While making the rounds this morning I found two blog posts that present opposing opinions in what strikes me as a chicken-and-egg argument regarding SOA Maturity and SOA Governance. In SOA Governance vs SOA Maturity, Ruan Malan offers a rather negative view of SOA governance: [SOA Maturity]  is often seen as less of an urgent topic than SOA Governance. With the right governance maturity is a matter of time, right? Wrong. . .SOA reference architecture and governance thinking...

Recession or not, there's more to SOA than.. (The World of SOA and EDA) Is SOA only about cost control and efficiency? Maneesh Joshi thinks otherwise. "SOA has a lot more to offer than just that. Innovation is the third and equally important pillar of SOA," Maneesh writes, "and there is [no] better a time to innovate than [in] an economic recession." (tags: soa innovation recession)

IT Linchpin 2006: The (Business-Driven) Enterprise Architect "In Business-Driven Architecture, enterprise architects are not only responsible for articulating the architecture, but also for actualizing the architecture, and introducing the architecture into IT business projects. Business-Driven Architecture has a strong bias to action, business opportunity, and project and portfolio advancement." Brenda Michelson's post is two years old, but still on target. (tags: enterprisearc...