SOA filling the Gaps

In a previous post titled:  Technology Predictions for 2015: Trivial, Over Estimated and Interesting , I analyzed  IDC's 2015 Technological Predictions. This post is dedicated to Gartner's top ten Strategic Technology Trends for 2015 . In addition of reading Gartner's prediction hyperlinked above, I read TechRepublic's article: Gartner's top 10 technology trends for 2015: All about the cloud . Methodological notes 1. Classifying of a prediction as Trivial does not imply that it is no t valid and does not imply that it should not be included in analysts' prediction. 2. A prediction could be classified as Over Estimated in different circumstances: a. The Technology is not so important as the analyst classified it.  It may vanish in Long Term or its use will be less prevalent than the analyst predict it will or its use will provide less Value than predicted so it will not be so important.   b. It is so immature that it will take longer time than speculate...

picture source: Wikipedia The word Captive in this context, is not about someone caught by enemy's forces.  It is about a customer, whose conception about the Consultant's topic are dictated by an expert or someone pretending to be an expert.  In a previous post you can find an example. The post titled:  Vendor Survival Guide: Supermarket, Grocery and Kiosk .  An example depicted in that post was Data Sorting   Software product selection process. The Captive Customer selected a product of Servers and Operating Systems vendor (The vendor is an analogy to a Supermarket). I recommended, a superior product of a small company. Sorting Software was the only product the company developed and marketed (Kiosk). The "Supermarket" does not care, if you buy chewing gum , as long as you buy meat , fish , bread  and milk (Servers, Storage , Operating Systems etc.). The kiosk's existence depends on chewing gum (Sorting Software). The "kiosk" will try...

In previous posts such as  Cloud Computing: Hype, Vision or Reality? ,  Hyped Cloud Technologies ,  PAAS is not Mainstream yet ,  SaaS is going Mainstream ,  Future applications: SaaS or traditional?   I discussed Cloud Computing. Recently I read  Joe McKendrick 's interesting article titled: Cloud Computing Market Hot, But How Hot? Estimates are All Over the Map Joe's views and predictions are similar to mine. However, he base his opinions on actual survey done by him, as part of his work with  Unisphere Research / Information Today Inc and on leading Analyst firms predictions. I recommend reading Joe's article.  The following bullets quote few highlights: Market Research Media ,cited  in the Bloomberg report, says the cloud market will reach $270 billion in 2020. Forrester is a tad less optimistic,  predicting  last year that the market will hit $241 billion by that time.   Research firm IDC  says...

Electronic Social Networking Services like Facebook are very popular.The distinction between Social  Networks services and similar Business services like Linkedin are not clear. Businesses use Facebook for commercial purposes and sometimes Linkedin users use it for social purposes. The identity of services such as Twitter is not clear as well: it is used for commercial and for social purposes.  Usage of Social Networking Services in an Enterprise context is not as simple as using it in a Consumer context.   Google's Steve Yege's post  published incidentally to an external Google+ circle instead of internal circle (including only Google's employees), is an illustration of issues facing an Enterprise using a Social Networking Service. The differences between Enterprise Social Networking Services are similar to the differences between SOA Services (Enterprise context) and Mashups (Consumer context): Management and Security are essential in the Enterprise cont...

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