The follow question was recently passed along to me by a peer:
"…There seems to be anecdotal evidence that moving a system to SOA, or
creating a new system using that architecture is the right way to go but she
was looking for something with numbers of metrics that she could use for her
boss…"
This is a really important question because I believe that the person seeking
this information is not alone in attempting to identify real value of
investing in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The problem is that a
properly done SOA should be unique to the mission, goals and processes of the
organization making it of limited relative use to another organization. That
is, SOA offers a framework for identifying, isolating, delivering and
servicing a consumer need, and, while al... (more)
On Thursday, September 10th, 2009, I moderated a panel at the 1105 Group’s
Enterprise Architecture Conference in Washington, DC entitled, “SOA Goes
Mainstream – An Industry and Government Roadmap.” On the panel we had
two Federal government agency representatives and two industry
representatives, with one of the industry representatives providing a FedEx
case study as the basis for thei... (more)
Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution,
and consumption of goods and services and aims to explain how economies work
and how economic agents interact. The really interesting thing about
economics is that getting the right answer requires that you pose the right
question. That is, if you choose to make conclusions based on casual
observations of explicit... (more)
Okay, maybe it's petty and I'm just tooting my own horn, but I found this old
article I wrote for Upstream CIO's October issue (written in July '05). In
rereading this article today, I surprised myself how aware I was of the
forthcoming Cloud & SOA convergence.
The popularity of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is gaining ground on
the heels of the success of eXtensible Mark-up Langua... (more)
I recently started my research into cybersecurity and I am working to become
more prolific in this area. Naturally, given my inclination to Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA), I am really interested in issues related to both
SOA and cybersecurity.
One thing I noticed immediately regarding cybersecurity is that, in general,
there are relatively few experts in this area given the total num... (more)
- What's the Best Definition of SOA?
- SOA and Cloud Computing Funding Dilemma
- Reflections on America's Conflicted Culture
- SOA is Dead, No Wait, It's Alive
- SOA is Dead, No Wait, It’s Alive, Wait, No, It’s, It’s…Perhaps It’s Who’s Adopted SOA, Not What Has Been Adopted
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
- When SOA Fails, Just SCA
- The Impact of Making Product Choices
- Then What Does Make Someone an Architect?
- Architecture Frameworks Dont Make Architects
JP Morgenthal works as a Sr. Principal Architect with QinetiQ North America's Mission Systems Group providing enterprise and SOA architecture guidance for Federal civilian agencies and an independent analyst for jpmorgenthal.com. Prior to joining QinetiQ NA, JP founded Avorcor where he developed a SOA-based Enterprise retail/manufacturing PaaS that has been the foundation of three award-winning industry solutions for customers. He is also frequent blogger and noted analyst on enterprise architecture, SOA and cloud computing topics. Morgenthal is also author of "Enterprise Information Integration: A Pragmatic Approach", which defines a methodology for using SOA and semantics to simplify integration.
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