Happy New Year! Well, actually it is a happy new year for Hewlett-Packard as our Fiscal year 2010 began November 1 st . As I look back at 2009 it was a very interesting year for SOA... First, SOA was dead, and then the SOA zombies started blogging and talking about what is working about SOA. Later in...
eBizQ on their SOA forum just posted a threaded discussion topic which got a few of us on "team SOA" talking: How Will SOA Vendors Adapt to the Emerging Cloud Paradigm? This eBizQ thread is thought provoking all the way around about what changes and challenges Cloud can impose on IT organizations...
Last week, I spent a whirlwind four days at HP Software Universe , HP's bi-annual customer and user community event for all things software. Between the content-rich interactions with customers, attending and managing sessions, and informal meetings with partners and colleagues, not to mention dinners...
Here’s the nirvana statement about the power of your SAP environment: SAP Environments thrive with precious business data. These are the corporate data jewels that are increasingly being used by organizations to create new revenue streams and to gain insights into business operations that when...
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...
In a recent blog post by Anne Thomas Manes , the statement was made: "SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession." HP, to paraphrase Steve Jobs among others, would respond by saying “SOA: Rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated...
I think the industry has had enough of espousing the academic promise of SOA at this point. With economic pressures mounting, what we need to see are real results from pragmatic SOA adoption. The good news is that we are seeing real examples of measurable SOA success in action more and more frequently...
On Monday, October 5th, HP announced our latest SOA Governance product suite; HP SOA Systinet 3.00. This product was made generally available during the summer, but we held off on the announcement for a number of good reasons. First, much of Europe is on vacation during August. Second, HP was in the...
In case you missed the news from last October (2007), former U.S. Vice President Al Gore was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to raise awareness of global warming. Now, Al Gore took some good natured ribbing a few years ago for his misstatement about being the guy who “invented” the...
I drew the lucky straw to be a track manager at HP Software Universe . This meant I was tagged to organize all the sessions at HP Software Universe for our SOA track . The positive side of the administrivia was that in the process, I had the opportunity to review and hear some great presentations from...