SOA filling the Gaps

The SOA manifesto was published in October 2009. It is a short document including SOA Value Proposition, principles and guidelines. The idea is similar to the idea of the successful Agile Manifesto from 2001, which become a reference for Agile developers. Agile Manifesto's success is based on two factors: It is a short and simple document and it was created by Agile thought leaders. The SOA manifesto was created by SOA thought leaders including employees of: IBM , Oracle and Microsoft and other vendors. You can read and sign the manifesto in this URL . You can also watch the YouTube video . Thomas Eri, one of the manifest creators, wrote an annotated version .

Seasonal Greetings to all of you. It is time to summarize 2009. As far is SOA is concerned, the most important developments in 2009 are: 1.  " SOA is dead Long Live Services" a post in Anne Thomas Mannes's blog. Anne Thomas Mannes is a Burton Group Vice President and Research Director majored in SOA. This post his blog post is important because it brought forward the mistakes in many SOA implementations and the misuse of the three letters S O A. It also catalyzed many responses of leading expert disagreeing with her opinions.  Most of the experts participated in ebizQ SOA forum agreed with me that "SOA is Dead" was important. You can read all the answers submitted to the question:  What Developments in SOA Are You Most Thankful For This Year? 2.     SOA is becomes the dominant paradigm SOA is real. The term Services is used very often. Most surveys show that at least 50% of the organizations are already implementing SOA. Most of the other en...

Do you think that ERP matters? If the answer is yes, you could learn something from its past and present in order to forecast its future. I recently came across a site trying to build a "wiki" timeline that covers the history of manufacturing & ERP software. The timeline includes key events that have shaped the ERP software industry over the last 50 years. It's a quick way to understand the context of current enterprise software events. The term ERP's definition in this context is a broad definition including applications such as CRM .  The following chart and title are an example of one of the key events.  1990 Gartner Coins "Enterprise Resource Planning" If you would like to read or contribute, you can visit that site. I shared with the site's creators some of my opinions about ERP & SOA and ERP & SaaS . If you read previous posts such as  Future Applications: SaaS or Traditional? , you are aware of my opinion.

Image Source: Wikimedia Commons. Created by Sam Johnston using OminGroup 's OmniGraffle and Inkscape (includes Computer.svg by Sasa Stefanovic ) I participated on December, 2nd in the first day of IGT2009 The World Summit of Cloud Computing . The interesting event is organized by T he Israeli Grid Association which organized a similar event in 2008. The event's agenda includes presentations by global vendors ( Amazon , IBM , Microsoft , eBay , Netapp , Sun Microsystems ), local companies (e.g., Matrix) Analyst ( Bitcurrent ) an enterprise ( Intel ), local and international Guru ( Yossi Vardi ). In addition an Executives Panel and workshops took place. This post does not summarize the presentations, which will be available in IGT's Web site. It is my take. Enterprise Services vs. Social Computing Most presenters talked about Enterprise Cloud Services. Yossi Vardi's message was: people are the Killing Application of Cloud Computing . He presented examples ...

One of the most difficult tasks of a major paradigm shift or architectural change or major technological change is Organizational Culture change (Corporate Culture change). Without a cultural change SOA 's Value Proposition could be turned to nothing, because SOA's benefits such as Service Reuse will not take place.  In a recent ebizQ webinar Gartner 's VP Distinguished Analyst Yefim Natis , talked about SOA Proponents’ Myths. 100% Service Reuse is one of these myths. The reality is that successful Service Reuse ratio is about 30%. It is obvious that Service Reuse is easy to say and is hard to use . The expectations of near to 100 percent usage of Objects in Objects Oriented also failed. However, there are significant measured benefits even to small percentage of Object Reuse and more significant benefits for small percentage of Service Reuse. Why is Service Reuse limited? The main reasons are Technical and Cultural. As far as Technical reasons are concerned, somet...

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--> I am not a fan of current e-mail offerings. It is full of Spam , Viruses, Worms and Phishing and the messages capacity is permanently growing. Some of the limitations should and could overcome by technical improvements by e-mail vendors and by different approaches by Internet Service Providers (ISPs). For example, ISPs can eliminate messages including Viruses, Worms or Phising with no additional charge. Other limitations are inherent. For example, Spam filtering by Anti-Spam is done by usage of statistical indicators and will never be 100% accurate. In an article I wrote few years ago, I pointed at the similarity between Signal Detection theory and Spam filtering: both are based on statistics (usually on Bayesian algorithms) and assign different weights to different error types. Despite of my opinion on e-mail technology when I was asked for my opinion on the question appearing in this post's title, my opinion is that Google Wave will not make e...

I n a previous post I asked the question: Will Software AG survive until 2019.  The intended acquisition of IDS Scheer was the trigger for writing the post. On October, 23 the intention was translated to Software AG's acquisition of 90% of IDS Scheer .

After hearing a podcast of Dana Gardner's interesting interviewing Aneel Bhusri Workday CEO , I tried to figure out what went wrong in the transition from traditional applications suites composed of large components to Service Oriented based application suites. In 2003 I had to present Giga Information Group's view in a local ERP conference in Haifa. A presentation by Giga's Analyst (and afterwards Forrester Research Analyst) Byron Miller titled: "ERP Technology Is Going Mainstream" was used for that purpose. The presentation depicts three possible future ERP states: Suite State – proprietary vendors suits. Industry or Vendor Ecosystems – more evolved standard based suits. New B-O-B World – standards based Best of Breed state. Use of ERP components from different suits is possible because of the standardization. New B-O-B World is the most desired state; however according to Giga's prediction the most probable future state is Suite ...