
Issue XXIII, October/November 2008

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Optimizing the Enterprise for SOA: From Project Management to Program Management to the "Network Organization"
by William Perlowitz

To achieve the benefits of SOA, enterprises must realize that traditional approaches to IT project management (where a project is considered in isolation, requirements are defined, and budgets are allocated) can no longer work. This article explores why the shift to treating IT as a continually evolving asset must occur. We describe why a radical change from traditional IT project management to program management and organization must be made and we conclude by introducing the concept of the "Network Organization"...
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Ten Strategies for Overcoming the Technological Impact of SOA Governance
by Robert Schneider

As many enterprises currently carrying service-oriented initiatives have learned the hard way, SOA governance isn't a “nice-to-have” option. Instead, it's vital to the long-term health and effectiveness of the undertaking. What makes governance particularly challenging is the sheer number of interacting software assets found in a typical service-oriented architecture. Forward-thinking organizations have turned to SOA governance automation to help manage this daunting task. This article offers a series of simple tips and tactics to bolster the likelihood of being successful when selecting and implementing SOA governance technology. It also points out the interplay between governance solutions and the major phases of a service-oriented initiative...
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Defining Business Services in the Telecommunications Industry
by Stuart Kerrigan
and Richard van Schelven

For many companies in the telecommunications sector, SOA adoption is essential to their growth and survival. This article explores the integration of concepts associated with SOA and service-orientation into a typical telecom enterprise by explaining how key SOA characteristics and principles tie into the typical telecom organizational structure, leading to an opportunity to define business services and establish a Service Solution Set Inventory (SSSI) as the foundation from which services can be repeatedly composed into aggregate applications. Along the way, we will explain some basic terminology related to distinguishing core from context processes and differentiating between the various types of clients and consumers that acquire service-oriented systems...
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Business Process Analysis with SOA: A Case Study
by Wajid Khattak

The success of any IT initiative could be measured in terms of the actual business goals that it fulfills. However, when it comes to SOA based projects, it becomes imperative that such an initiative bears close correspondence with the business requirements as SOA is usually an enterprise-wide activity. In order to achieve this required alignment, it stands necessary that before starting off with the service-oriented analysis phase, a high level view of required SOA needs to be in place that ensures that the subsequent analysis phase concentrates on business processes. Business process analysis offers matrices that help in drawing a correspondence between business goals and high level services...
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Web Service Contract Versioning Fundamentals Part I: Versioning and Compatibility
by Thomas Erl, David Orchard and James Pasley

Web services have made it possible to build services with fully decoupled contracts that leverage industry standards to establish a vendor-neutral communications framework. Though powerful and flexible, this framework brings with it an on-going responsibility to effectively manage those service contracts as the services continue to evolve over time. One of the most critical aspects of service governance is contract versioning. This first of two articles comprised of excerpts from the recently released "Web Service Contract Design & Versioning for SOA" book explores fundamental service contract versioning issues, including compatible and incompatible versioning requirements...
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Issue XLIX, 2011

The Integration Between EAI and SOA - Part I

Driving SOA Governance - Part II: Operational Considerations

Service Portfolio Management - Part IV

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Issue XLVIII, 2011

Driving SOA Governance - Part I

Empowering the Discipline of Cloud Integration - Part I

Service Portfolio Management - Part III

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Issue XLVII, 2011

Creating a Successful Cloud Roadmap

SOA Governance in the Cloud

Service Portfolio Management - Part II

Announcing the Portuguese- Translated SOA Manifesto & Annotated SOA Manifesto

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Issue XLVI, January 2011

Service Portfolio Management - Part I

Client Virtualization in a Cloud Environment

SOA Pioneers Interview Series:
Microsoft and Cloud Computing

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Issue XLV, December 2010

Machiavelli's SOA: Toward a Theory of SOA Security

SOA and Information Risk Management

Cloud Computing Basics

Announcing the Chinese-Translated SOA Manifesto & Annotated SOA Manifesto

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Issue XLIV, Oct-Nov 2010

Using Extended Enterprise Services to Avoid the IT Pitfalls from the 90s

Cloud Computing Interview Series: Anthony Assi, Naveen Gabrani and Herbjorn Wilhelmsen

SOA Pioneer Interview Series: Toufic Boubez, Dimitri Sirota, and Linda Terlouw

Announcing the Russian-Translated SOA Manifesto & Annotated SOA Manifesto

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Issue XLIII, September 2010

SOA Pioneers Interview Series; Art Ligthart, Volker Stiehl, and Stefan Tilkov

Information Security for SOA: Why the Information Security Consultancy Industry Needs a Major Overhaul (PartII)

Modern SOA Methodology and SOA Adoption Using Agile Practices (Part II)

Announcing the Dutch-Translated SOA Manifesto & Annotated SOA Manifesto

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Issue XLII, August 2010

Information Security for SOA:
Why the Information Security Consultancy Industry Needs a Major Overhaul (Part I)

Modern SOA Methodology and SOA Adoption Using Agile Practices (Part I)

Fluid Services (Part II)

Announcing the French-Translated SOA Manifesto & Annotated SOA Manifesto

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Issue XLI, July 2010

Semantic Technologies in Integration and SOA

Fluid Services

Understanding Service Composition,
Part IV: Dealing with Events

Announcing the Spanish-Translated SOA Manifesto & Annotated SOA Manifesto

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Issue XL, June 2010

SOA Scorecard

Understanding SOA Governance

Understanding Service Composition,
Part III: Dealing With Data

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Issue XXXIX, May 2010

Leveraging the Next Generation SOA Ideals
for Service Oriented Enterprises (SOEs)

Understanding Service Composition,
Part II: Dealing With Identity

Effective Top-Down SOA Management
In An Efficient Bottom-Up Agile World (Part 2)

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Issue XXXVIII, April 2010

Effective Top-down SOA Management in an
Efficient Bottom-up Agile World (Part 1)

Understanding Service Composition,
Part I: Dealing With Workflow Across Services

XML Appliances for Service-Oriented Architectures

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Issue XXXVII, March 2010

The Importance of Schema Design in SOA

Understanding Cloud Computing and Cloud-Based Security

SOA with Spring (Part 2)

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Issue XXXVI, February 2010

The Building Blocks of SOA

SOA with Spring (Part 1)

SOA Governance - How Best To Embrace it, Part 3: Governance Maturity, Tooling, Vitality and Success Patterns

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Issue XXXV, January 2010

Standards Supporting RESTful Services

SOA Governance - How Best To Embrace it, Part 2: Governance Lifecycle

Reporting on the 2nd International
SOA Symposium

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Issue XXXIV, Nov/Dec 2009

Reporting on the SOA Manifesto:
A Meeting of the Minds

Identity Services for SOA

Master Key for Unlocking Enterprise Data

Articulating SOA in the Cloud

The Annotated SOA Manifesto

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Issue XXXIII, October 2009

Preventing SOA Failures:
A Revealing Interview About Effective
SOA Governance

Enterprise SOA Governance
in a Product Organization

SOA Governance, How Best To Embrace It
Part I: Introduction to Enterprise, IT and
SOA Governance

A Case Study on SOA and Process:
Integrating E-Gov Travel Services with
Federal Agency Financial Systems (Part II)

Introducing the SOA Manifesto

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Issue XXXII, September 2009

A Case Study on SOA and Process:
Integrating E-Gov Travel Services with Federal Agency Financial Systems (Part I)

Dynamic SOA and BPM

Towards a DoD Service-Oriented
Architecture Competency Center:
Technology is the Least of Concerns

Consuming Services with WCF

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Issue XXXI, August 2009

Viral Data in SOA:
An Enterprise Pandemic

RESTful SOA with Open Source

Service Error Content Patterns (Part II)

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Issue XXX, July 2009

The Service Engine:
Structured Communication using Modern Service Technologies

Service Error Content Patterns (Part I)

An SOA Case Study: Integrating Adobe LiveCycle Forms using JBossWS

1st International Cloud Symposium

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Issue XXIX, May/June 2009

SOA and the XML Factor:
Designing Service-Oriented Solutions
with Extreme XML Compatibility

Principles for Implementing
a Service-Oriented Enterprise Architecture

Workflow-Enabled Services with
Windows Workflow Foundation

Towards an SOA Manifesto

2nd International SOA Symposium
Website Launch

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Issue XXVIII, April 2009

Building Reusable Services

What Drives SOA, Business or IT?

A Content Management Migration Framework for SCA

SOA Pattern of the Week Series

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Issue XXVII, March 2009

SOA in Healthcare (Part II)

Understanding WS-Policy Part II:
Operator Composition Rules and Attachments

A Look at WSDL 2.0

SOA Design Patterns Webcast

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Issue XXVI, February 2009

Service Development Lifecycle Controls
for Creating a Service Factory

The Rise of Virtual Service Grids

Service Transaction Handling
Without WS-AtomicTransaction

Understanding WS-Policy Part I:
Policy Structure and Composite Policies

Introducing 20 New SOA Podcasts

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Issue XXV, January 2009

What Every Developer Should Know About SOA Governance

Principles and Patterns at the U.S. Department of Defense

Scaling Services with Software Pipelines: A Look at Service Design with the SPOC Methodology

Web Service Contract Versioning Fundamentals Part II: Version Identifiers and Versioning Strategies

Introducing the SOA Pattern of the Week Series

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Issue XXIV, December 2008

The Case for Single-Purpose Services: Understanding the Non-Agnostic Context and a Strategy for Implementation

Message Auditing in Service-Oriented Architecture

REST-Inspired SOA Design Patterns

SOAPatterns.org - A Community Site
Dedicated to SOA Patterns

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Issue XXIII, Oct/Nov 2008

Optimizing the Enterprise for SOA: From Project Management to Program Management to the "Network Organization"

Ten Strategies for Overcoming the Technological Impact of SOA Governance

Defining Business Services in the Telecommunications Industry

Business Process Analysis with SOA: A Case Study

Web Service Contract Versioning Fundamentals Part I: Versioning and Compatibility

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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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