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SOA in the DoD
by Howard Cohen and Josh Taylor
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) understands the value of information. While this understanding is very clear, it does not yet have a fully functional or satisfactory prescription for the strategic and technical ailments that pains its communities. Service-oriented architectures are not magic but the concepts, if applied with logic, leadership and continuity, make sense. Any mission or objective must be clearly defined with planning and the use of blueprints to build solutions that have meaning to those who will be served. There is disparity in data across domains within the DoD, but there are emerging ideas and technical strategies in development to address this issue. And SOA is a key part of this solution...
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The Benefits of a
Data Abstraction Layer for SOA
by Kirstan Vandersluis
Companies seeking increased agility and reuse through service-oriented architecture quickly find that making sense of widely distributed and disparate data is a major roadblock to achieving the benefits of SOA. To build a successful SOA implementation, architects need to pour the foundation first - they need to begin with a data abstraction layer that makes sense of an otherwise chaotic data landscape. Data abstraction leads to the ability to leverage physical data, no matter how it's structured, as new, logical schemas that exist only in middleware - creating a common data layer that architects can restructure as needed, rather than making costly changes to the physical database or core services. This article examines the use of a common data layer leveraged through data abstraction, its key advantages, and the value and ROI it generates for enterprises that deploy SOA...
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SOA Engineering Focal Points
by Ted Barbusinski
This article, the second in a two-part series, examines why strategic SOA investments so often suffer from poor technical design and implementation and, as a result, diminished ROI. In the first article, we established common SOA engineering misconceptions that are commonly the root cause of poor SOA technical implementations. Within this second part, we will examine key SOA engineering focal points and success factors that are essential to successful SOA solution engineering. The goal here is to empower IT leadership, management, and enterprise architects with the knowledge necessary to apply high-level guidance to SOA engineering teams and to position the SOA investment for successful technical implementation and maximum ROI...
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Issue XXII, September 2008
Demystifying Data Federation for SOA
The Economics of Service-Orientation: Leveraging the Emerging Services Marketplace
Service-Orientation and Systems of Record: The Northwest Customer Support Example
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Issue XXI, August 2008
Enterprise Mashups Part II: Why SOA Architects Should Care
Project-Oriented SOA
SOA Security 101: Patching the Firewall Hole
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Issue XX, July 2008
Service-Orientation vs. Object-Orientation: Understanding the Impedance Mismatch
Data Management: The Missing Link in Your SOA Strategy
An SOA Vendor Evaluation Methodology
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Issue XIX, June 2008
SOA in the DoD
The Benefits of a Data Abstraction Layer for SOA
SOA Engineering Focal Points
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Issue XVIII, May 2008
Enterprise Mashups
Part I: Bringing SOA to the People
Shadow IT: Edge
Applications in a Service-Oriented Enterprise
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Issue XVII, April 2008
Relating Master Data Management to SOA
SOA in Healthcare (Part I)
A Program Management Methodology for SOA
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Issue XVI, March 2008
Working with SOA and RUP
SOA Engineering Misconceptions
Refactoring Considerations for Service-Enabling Applications
Service-Orientation and Object-Orientation Part II: A Comparison of Design Principles
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Issue XV, February 2008
SOA in Government: A Law Enforcement Use Case
Security in SOA - It's the Car, Not the Garage
Integration with Process-Centric Service Composition
Service-Orientation and Object-Orientation Part I: A Comparison of Goals and Concepts
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Issue XIV, January 2008
Next-Generation Grid-Enabled SOA: Not Your MOM's Bus
A Strategic Approach to SOA: Using Pilot Projects and Effective Disciplines to Ensure Successful Adoption and Governance
Defining Operational Services: How SOA Can Help Realize a Role-Based Organization
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Issue XIII, December 2007
Ten Ways to Identify Services
Services as Web Services: Are We There Yet? How Web Service Technology Stacks Alone Cannot Fulfill the Goals of SOA
SOA Design Patterns: The International Community Review of SOA Patterns and Pattern Languages
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Issue XII, November 2007
SOA Pioneers Interview Series: Intel Chief Architect Steve Birkel on SOA Practices and Intel's SOA Adoption
Smart Enough for SOA: Incorporating Enterprise Decision Management into Service Design
Processes as Services: Contract Design for Services that Encapsulate WS-BPEL Process Definitions
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Issue XI, October 2007
Checking up on the Standards: Introducing the Big SOA Grid
Beyond IT: Exploring the Business Value of SOA
Software Pipelines Theory: Understanding and Applying Concurrent Processing
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Issue X, September 2007
SOA - Ready for Primetime: The Next-Generation, Grid-Enabled Service-Oriented Architecture
SOA Realization through Service Virtualization
SOA and the Importance
of XQuery
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Issue IX, Jul/Aug 2007
The Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM) and SOA Data Service Layers
SaaS, Composite Applications, and SOA: Understanding their Differences and Making Them Work Together
The Convergence of Service-Orientation and Business Strategy
SOA Methodology: Mainstream Methodology for Service-Oriented Analysis and Design
SOA Glossary: Definitions for SOA and Service-Orientation
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Issue VIII, June 2007
Defining Business Services: SOA from a Corporate Perspective
Watch Your SOA Blind Spots: A Checklist for Testing Web Services
Software Pipelines in the Real World: Two SOA Performance Case Studies
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Issue VII, May 2007
Finding Services in the Mainframe
Quality Assurance for SOA Through Process Cadence
SOA Principles: An Introduction to the Service-Orientation Paradigm
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Issue VI, April 2007
Modernizing the Mainframe for SOA: Considerations for Transforming Mainframe Assets into Services
SOA and Composite Applications
Automated Modeling and Performance Management for Service-Oriented Solutions
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Issue V, March 2007
High Performance SOA with Software Pipelines
Essential Components of an SOA Quality Foundation
SOA and the Core Competency Model: A Business Perspective for Realizing Competitive Advantages
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Issue IV, February 2007
Service Elicitation:
Defining the Conceptual Service
SOA and EDA: Using
Events to Bridge Decoupled Service Boundaries
SOA and the Emergence
of Business Technology
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Issue III, January 2007
AJAX: Bringing SOA
to the Front Lines
Commercializing Services: Web Services Distribution Channels and SOA
Implications of SOA on Business Strategy and Organizational Design
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Issue II, Nov/Dec 2006
An SOA Case Study:
Agility in Practice
Business Rules in SOA:
Decision Services and the Centralization of Rules Management
Web Service-Enabling Relational Databases
for SOA
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Issue I, Sep/Oct 2006
SOA in the Enterprise:
A Survey of the Technical Landscape
SOA Infrastructure:
Mediation and Orchestration
An SOA Practices Checklist
for Building Implementation Roadmaps
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