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Popping the buzzword bubble

There’s no shortage of buzzwords buzzing around the blogosphere, analystsphere, consultantsphere, conferencesphere, and everywhere else-sphere. (And yes, they spill over into this blogsite as well…)  Geek & Poke’s Oliver Widder takes a poke at the ...

From JOE MCKENDRICK, ZDNet,  21 Nov 2009

Panel: do cloud computing economic advantages break down in enterprises?

The purpose of information technology is “to provide compute and storage. That’s it. full stop. That compute and storage can be provided by mainframes, private data centers, distributed networks, or by the cloud.” At this week’s Interop conference in ...

From JOE MCKENDRICK, ZDNet,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: AT&T Inc.

No SOAP for this Navy

This is the third of three installments of my discussion with Jim Jennis, chief technology officer for the US Coast Guard Operations Systems Center, and Steve Munson, SOA branch chief for the US Coast Guard, about the department’s growing roster of ...

From JOE MCKENDRICK, ZDNet,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: RPC, Inc.,  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

SOA promotes a sea change for the US Coast Guard

This is the second of three installments of my discussion with Jim Jennis, chief technology officer for the US Coast Guard Operations Systems Center, and Steve Munson, SOA branch chief for the US Coast Guard, about the department’s growing roster of ...

From JOE MCKENDRICK, ZDNet,  17 Nov 2009

SOA helps Coast Guard navigate new tides of homeland security

Did you know the movement of any ship headed toward US waters is tracked by an SOA-aware service running on the US Coast Guard’s systems? And that SOA services are being employed to provide data to an international registry of maritime activity?  And ...

From JOE MCKENDRICK, ZDNet,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

US defense department IT managers describe latest assault on complex and siloed IT systems

A vexing issue that comes along with service orientation is figuring out who will fund the services being shared across the enterprise. Things get even more interesting in really large organizations with lots of multiple business lines. So you can ...

From JOE MCKENDRICK, ZDNet,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Oracle,  Microsoft Corporation

Why IT can't seem to deliver measurable productivity

Are your investments in IT bearing measurable results? Or are the benefits more “feels-right” types of results? Perhaps IT can’t deliver measurable productivity because the measurements are wrong. Perhaps IT can’t deliver measurable productivity ...

From JOE MCKENDRICK, ZDNet,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  Joseph Schumpeter

Enterprise mashup, defined

You may recall that last spring, following a TV news interview, Luis was not happy with the explanation he gave to describe enterprise mashups.  JackBe sponsored a couple of contests, along with a lot of discussion among practitioners and ...

From JOE MCKENDRICK, ZDNet,  9 Nov 2009

Bridging the gap between BPM and SOA: look to the repository

The key lies in the registry/repository of services created to support SOA: “One of the most important things to consider is the ability of the BPMN tooling to take advantage of service metadata that exists in a registry/repository,” Todd explains. ...

From JOE MCKENDRICK, ZDNet,  6 Nov 2009

Event processing means more than 'speeding up' existing systems

Complex event processing — now made possible by service-oriented architecture principles — represents the next stage of business intelligence. However, much work needs to be done to reach this capability. Complex event processing requires a different ...

From JOE MCKENDRICK, ZDNet,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Gartner, Inc.,  IBM

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