SOA filling the Gaps

As promised in previous post , this post includes an English version of my presentation in the Israeli Systems Analysis Conference on March 13th.

I recently read a post by ZapThink 's analyst Jason Bloomberg titled:  Continuous Business Transformation: At the Center of ZapThink 2020 According to that post the permanence of change drives how we run our organizations,but it is against our human quest for stability. As far as Enterprise Architecture is concerned, he notes that the To-Be Architecture organizations trying to move to from current As-Is Architecture is a moving target: There will never be a stable Enterprise Architecture. I do agree that Architecture is dynamic in nature, however we should look more deeply at the characteristics of that ever changing process.   Does Enterprise Architecture evolve linearly or  Spiraly? I use the term linear for describing any type of monotonic evolution, just because linear is simpler than other monotonic fuctions. In my opinion as described in a previous post it is spiral . Yesterday, I encountered a SaaS example supporting my case. I looked at an old Giga Informa...

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After vacation of three weeks (without any posts in my blog), I read an interesting article in The Enterprise Architecture Online User Group site. The article is about Experience and Enterprise Architecture . The article's title is: Can Enterprise architects be young? The opinion of the article composer is: "So, every time that I see a young gentleman who claims to be an enterprise architect or enterprise architect expert, I simply don't believe him". SOA is a style of Enterprise Architecture (EA). In most cases, SOA is composing only a part of enterprise architecture, especially in the long journey of transformation from older architectures. Therefore EA considerations explained in the article are applicable to SOA too. I would paraphrase the article's conclusion and say: Every time that I see a young gentleman who claims to be a SOA architect or SOA architect expert, I simply don't believe him.

On March 23th 2009 I presented in the Israeli Systems Analyst Conference. The topic: SOA a means for Leveraging Business development in Recession?