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AJAX: Bringing SOA to the Front Lines
by Mathew Quinn
A service-oriented architecture (SOA) can provide enterprises with significant benefits, including the ability to reuse application functionality and to interconnect heterogeneous applications to create new composite ones. However, a critical component to the realization of SOA benefits is that users throughout the extended enterprise can efficiently access and interact with key resources. Otherwise you cannot fully leverage your infrastructure investment. Using AJAX rich internet applications (RIAs) as the presentation tier, however, can significantly enhance the impact of SOA. This article explains how companies can link their employees, customers and partners, with a scalable, flexible interface to efficiently interact with service-oriented resources...
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Commercializing Services:
Web Services Distribution Channels and SOA
by Joe Labbe
Exposing Web services to the outside world is much more complex than creating and maintaining services geared towards internal consumption. While internally focused projects have their technical challenges, outwardly focused Web services initiatives bring to the fore a whole host of non-IT related issues such as business strategy and marketing. Those who proceed with such projects with the same mindset that made their internal projects successful run a significant risk of failing. Web services initiatives aimed at serving the needs of non-captive customers and partners are akin in effort to that of creating a new business channel and not merely a systems integration project. In order be successful in these efforts, you must clearly understand your organization’s objectives, your customer’s needs and the Web Services Distribution Ecosystem...
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Implications of SOA on Business Strategy
and Organizational Design
by William Murray
The need to somehow change the way we do business as a prerequisite to unlocking the transformative potential (and resulting competitive advantage) inherent in technological innovation is becoming increasingly recognized. The scope of discussion this time around however moves beyond organizational efficiencies to whole of market efficiencies, and the strategic implications this has in terms of planning and organizational design. Many business leaders have grown progressively indignant towards the over-sold and under-delivered powers of technology to effect their bottom line - these, the same people who are responsible for setting strategic direction, business planning, and capital investment. This is the first in a series of articles targeting the business community. It explores the implications of SOA on strategic planning and organizational design – from a business perspective...
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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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