Short and sweet -- one place to find a majority of our web information on SOA

kellyemo — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:21:00 GMT

I'm pleased to introduce our new SOA Resource Library on www.hp.com. This is not a fancy web page with embedded graphics, amazing diagrams, post-modern navigation, it's just a simple list. But that said, it's a one-stop shopping list of links to the latest white papers, videos, demos, podcasts and the like on HP and SOA. Yes, you can find these assets elsewhere, scattered through our products and solutions pages, but I find it helpful to know if I'm not sure where to look, I just go the resource library and find it in the master list.

Keep this page bookmarked as we plan to update it frequently with our latest SOA content

http://tinyurl.com/nutfbn

Remember SOA is a journey... and any journey requires commitment, dedication and the occasional navigational checks and adjustments to stay on the desired path...where are you on your SOA Journey?

more on the basics -- how to walk the talk on being service oriented

kellyemo — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:52:00 GMT

I just recently had a simple article published in the digital edition of SOAWorld magazine titled "Navigating the SOA journey from project to productivity". It's another back-to-basics piece. With all the hooplah lately about whether the term SOA is dead or alive, we lose sight of the fact that regardless of terms, IT needs to embrace service orientation to transition from the silo'd applications state to a state of agile compositions... and service orientation is not just a technology dicussion. It encompasses architecture, applications, organizations and best practices.

In the article, I describe the move to service orientation as a three-stage journey from getting started, to crossing the shared service divide to scaling to the enterprise. I believe these tenents hold true whether the architecture is SOA or service oriented using web-oriented principles, mash-ups, cloud services or something else...

The article can be found here.

Here's a snippet:

Remember, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step and so does a SOA. The best way to get started is to assess your organizational readiness for SOA, empower a team to own SOA adoption, identify a project with substantial business support, and start to implement services under the guidance of a governance program.

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Short and sweet -- one place to find a majority of our web information on SOA

more on the basics -- how to walk the talk on being service oriented