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 processes) and systems management (passively monitoring
performance and availability of IT infrastructure). These are two very
different meanings for the word "management," and two very different markets.
The question of management in the context of "Web services management" has
gained a lot of visibility as the big vendors each try to claim ownership of
the space. Hewlett-Packard's OpenView division acquired Talking Blocks.
Computer Associates acquired Adjoin. BEA Systems announced that it... (more)
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... (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 of your organization. Many organizations will struggle as
they seek to identify, implement, and build on their first SOA forays into
the new environment. This is unfortunate, because a number of b... (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 systems that will
stand the test of time. These behaviors include continuing to operate with a
proprietary non-XML architecture, and designing the architecture around
network devices that do hardwar... (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
clear-cut. The challenge is that governance only gets harder the more an
organization moves towards a service-based architecture.
One of the first myths that drives a number of enterprise architectu... (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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