JP Morgenthal

An interesting facet of advancement is that it tends to limit know-how over time. At one time the mechanic in your local garage could take your entire engine apart, fix any problem and put it back into running order. Today, they can put a computer on the end, read a code, and hop... (more)

Google Wave on Ulitzer This past weekend I set out explore some of the extension capabilities of Google Wave. One of the weaknesses that have been identified by many is the lack of integration with email. For me, in particular, because Wave is new, many Waves are being orphaned ... (more)

Why do I blog? For me it's a civic duty. I have an ability to identify the real value of IT investments and directions to business. There's a lot of noise out there coming from sources with their own agendas, both internal and external to an organization, that makes it difficult... (more)

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 f... (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 yo... (more)

A couple of weeks ago I did an interview with Loraine Lawson (@lowrain) who covers integration technology for IT Business Edge.  There were two different aspects to the interview, one focused on my blog entry "Perhaps SOA is More Strategy Than Architecture" and the other my belie... (more)

Bob Evans, senior VP and director of InformationWeek's Global CIO unit, recently published his thoughts and findings on why CIOs should no longer be focusing on aligning IT with business, but instead focusing on aligning with the customer.  In this piece, Bob goes onto illustrate... (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 o... (more)

Those of us that are part of SOA-related projects where traditional business analysts (BA) are involved often find ourselves frustrated by the incongruence between the analyst’s approach to requirements gathering and the SOA design.  The problem arises because SOA models function... (more)

Lately, and primarily among government users, I’ve been hearing about a potential clash of bureaucracy meets technology when it comes to funding shared services.  It seems that the current government procurement and funding processes do not favor strategic sharing of software ser... (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 industr... (more)

Not to beat the dead horse, but during a discussion the other day with a fellow SOA cohort, I came to a realization for the reason SOA & BPM get inextricably tied together in some individual’s thoughts. I’ve written and blogged before on how SOA & BPM have very different goals. S... (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 immediatel... (more)

1105 Government Information Group Enterprise Architecture Conference – 9/10/2009 Ronald Reagan Building, Washington, DC AFEI Cloud Computing Executive Seminar 2009 – 9/17/2009 Sheraton Premiere, Tyson’s Corner, Virginia ZapForum DC: SOA & EA Networking Event, 10/1/09 SYS-CON GovI... (more)

There’s a lot of points that will be made in this blog entry.  To keep them straight, I will highlight them right up front: Vendors are getting behind SCA because it reinforces a need for tools The importance of architects in software development Untested technologies are being ... (more)

Sure, now that the deed is done and the board has approved the acquisition, there’s lots of Monday morning quarterbacks.  However, in this case, I’m not one of them.  Indeed, I point to the release of my 9/1997 report that I wrote for NC.Focus entitled “State of Java Report: IBM... (more)

So, allow me to expand on my prior blog entry (Architecture Frameworks Don’t Make Architects) and answer the question, what does make an architect? To help structure my query, I went in search of a concrete specification that defines the difference between and engineer and an archi... (more)

As part of my job, I help customers to select the appropriate software to either fulfill a need or as a component of a larger solution.  Fulfilling this role means comparing similar software offerings and selecting the best fit.  The challenge in this goal is to map the vendor of... (more)

So, allow me to expand on my prior blog entry — Architecture Frameworks Don’t Make Architects — and answer the question, what does make an architect? To help structure my query, I went in search of a concrete specification that defines the difference between and engineer and an ... (more)

So, I was about to blog on this topic when up comes a Tweet from Ron Schmelzer (@rschmelzer) over at ZapThink, “Question for the tweeple: do Federal EA Frameworks matter? And how do they stack up against non-Federal EA Frameworks? Do Frameworks matter?” Talk about synergies! Obvi... (more)