"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 architecture
governance decisions is that adding more rules reduces risk. That may be true
in theory, but in practice it actually increases risk. The reason is simple:
complexity increases risk. A perfect c... (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)
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)
"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)
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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