One of the ongoing challenges for business today is finding ways to do more
with less. Companies are under relentless pressure to deliver products and
services to market faster, better and cheaper than ever before. Investments
in information technology are expected to drive the business forward, not
only in terms of gaining efficiencies and increasing responsiveness, but in
creating new top-line opportunities.
Ironically, most corporate IT organizations allocate 75%-85% of their annual
budget just to "keeping the lights on." At the same time, research shows that
a typical server's average utilization is 15%-25%. While these figures may
not reflect your particular organization, they highlight the fact that
there's a great deal of inefficiency in IT today, consuming large ... (more)
Day by day, company by company, IT organization by IT organization, today's
enterprise is busy architecting for business-solution agility and the
alignment of key assets around the emerging service-oriented architecture
(SOA) umbrella. The ability to embrace SOA leads to the ability to rapidly
capitalize on future IT investments and leverage existing technologies both
inside and outside ... (more)
"Our processes are bulletproof. Nothing gets into production that doesn't go
through the proper and complete approval process." Famous last words uttered
by far too many enterprise architects. Some of them actually believe it's
true - others think that by hoping it's true, maybe, just maybe, they can
make it true.
The reality, as any line-of-business developer can attest, is much less
c... (more)
When I tell customers that my company does Web services management, the
question I often hear is "so what do you mean by Web services management?"
It's no wonder there's so much confusion on this issue, because the term
"management" has been used to mean many different things. For example,
there's business process management (actively coordinating the runtime
execution of business proces... (more)
As information technology professionals progress in their knowledge and use
of XML and Web services, the question of XML performance persists. In hallway
chats, one might hear that "XML takes up too much bandwidth" or "XML takes
too many CPU cycles to process."
Unfortunately, these beliefs lead to behaviors inconsistent with best
practices for building and deploying Web service-based syst... (more)
Dan Foody, CTO of Sonic and Actional products, leverages his extensive experience in enterprise systems software toward designing robust and manageable service-oriented architectures. Foody's experience with distributed systems technologies including middleware, integration and Web services, gives him a broad knowledge of the complexities and requirements for managing real-world enterprise software deployments. He is the author of various standards, and contributed significantly to the OMG standard for COM/CORBA interworking. Most recently, Foody was the recipient of InfoWorld's 2005 CTO 25 award. Foody holds a BSEE and MSEE from Cornell University.
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