SOA filling the Gaps

Picture Source: Wikipedia In previous posts I classified Customers, e.g.  Customers Typology: The Social .   In other posts I classified Consultants  e.g. Consultants Typology: The Consultant who Knows Everything . In this post series I will try to classify Managers. Why should I post about Captive Manager if I already wrote about   The Captive Customer  and about  The Captive Customer who Knows Everything ? There are similarities between a Captive Customer and a Captive Manager, but they are not identical.  The following real Case Study would clarify the differences.   Tale of two Managers Two Senior IT Managers were working for a large customer of mine. The first Manager was a Microsoft 's Captive Customer. Whenever he had to chose a Microsoft's  product vs. another vendor's product he automatically selected Microsoft's product.  If you read my post  The Captive Customer , you understand why this selection met...

I recently read EbizQ 's SOA Market Pulse a global SOA survey done by the company via internet published on January 2008 and sponsored by IBM . The survey is not a scientific survey, because the sample may be biased. However, Major SOA Trends are probably reflected. I would suspect that more refined findings are not accurate. The most interesting findings in my opinion are: Current State Finding: Almost half of the participants have any SOA implementation and another third have plans to implement SOA. My Take : SOA is Mainstream but not yet implemented in most enterprises. (Similar finding of 48% was found in the on the spot Israeli survey done in STKI Summit). SOA Efforts Finding: Most of the companies build "Islands of SOA": Multiple SOA initiatives with multiple teams and no centralized control. In some organizations there are ten different SOA initiatives. My Take : Probably it is not easy for large enterprises to have a single unified S...