SOA filling the Gaps

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...

Image source: Wikimedia On August 4-6 I participated in Wikimania 2011 in Haifa ! The participants were Wikipedian from many countries, including Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales and all of Wikimedia Foundation directors, except one. The organizing team headed by Tomer Ashur, Wikimedia Israel's chairman and Deror Lin, Wikimania General Manager, achievements were exceptionally good both in the administrative aspects and the professional aspects.  Wikipedia is evolving and changing. It is not exactly the same community it was when I described it in one of my Web 2.0 for Dummies posts in 2008.  However, the challenges described few years ago in my post titled: Wikipedia: The Good the Bad and the Ugly  did not vanish.  Wikipedia case The evolution and challenges of Wikipedia and Wikipedia's Community are very similar to challenges facing other Web 2.0 projects and communnities, including Social Networking Services . However, there are also unique aspec...

STKI Summit 2011 was about the emerging new IT World.  The emerging game changing trends are:  Mobility Smart phones applications and Location Based business Services Social Commerce and the important role of Social Networks and other Social Computing software Cloud Computing which may change the CIO 's role to Business related role instead of Computing Infrastructure focused role. High Data growth rate in general and non-structured data in particular It should be noted that any of the new trends or technologies cited above is not game changing. The combination of all these trends together is game changing. The growing IT-Business Gap was mentioned several times in conference presentation topics, e.g. Business Intelligence , SOA , Social Networks .  The concept of Business Technology (BT) was also discussed in the Keynote presentation. This concept originali developed by George F. Colony from  Forrester Research   after an open discussio...

 בכנס STKI Summit 2011    הועלו נושאים רבים הקשורים בעולם המחשוב  החדש המתפתח שמאפייניו העיקריים הם : (ניידות) Mobility אפליקציות המיועדות לטלפונים חכמים ( Smart Phones ) והתנהלות עסקית המבוססת על זיהוי המיקום הפיזי של הלקוח. Social Commerce והתפקיד המרכזי של הרשתות החברתיות והמחשוב החברתי  מחשוב ענן  (Cloud Computing) העשוי להפוך את המנמ"ר  (CIO) למעורב יותר בעסקים  של הארגון ופחות למי שעסוק בטיפול בתשתיות. גידול רב בכמויות המידע בכלל ובכמויות המידע  הגידול הוא במידע בכלל ובמידע ה Non Structured  בפרט. שילוב כל אלה מהווה שינוי בכללי המשחק. בהקשרים שונים בהרצאות בכנס הוזכר הפער הגדל בין ה IT   ל Business.  עלה גם המושג ( Business Technology (BT בו התחיל להשתמש George F. Colony  מ Forrester Research , על מנת להחליף את המושג Information Technology, כביטוי לשינוי בתפקיד מערכות המחשוב.  השימוש במושג BT החל בעקבות דיון פתוח  בו השתתפו אנליסטים של  ואנשים אחרים מתעשיית טכנולוגי...

--> This post is the 8 th post in the "Web 2.0 for dummies" posts, based on my Web 2.0 presentation in a conference. After tasting Web 2.0 (part 2) understanding what it is (part 4) and understanding Mashups, Virtual Realities , Wikipedia we will look at the world of Social Networks. Networks enable people to connect to other people with similar interests or history. People gradually build their networks by connecting to other people or connecting to network content. Networks like Linkedin or Plaxo are more professional than social. Facebook and Myspace are examples of Social networks. However, Professional networks are also used for Social purposes and Social Networks are also used for business interactions. --> Networks Models --> F irst generation: Connecting People Linkedin is a good example of Professional Network of that type. A member may request to connect to another member. The other member may accept the invitation or re...