It's conventional wisdom that business agility results from providing a significant amount of control and direction around a SOA initiative to ensure predictable results.  To achieve this, strong enterprise architecture and SOA governance are assumed to play a key role.

Of course, it's...

In a previous post, Distributed SOA, I have got a couple of comments about how technologies, such as SAML etc., fit in.  I would like to say that the title was Distributed Not Federated SOA, but...

In a previous post, I promised I'd explain how to avoid governing service consumers.  Now, let me say that not governing consumers is of critical importance because consumers just won't use a...

Have you ever noticed that weather reports used to say things like "20% chance of rain", but now almost all just say "chance of rain" or even "rain likely"?  (Where I am, today its "snow likely.") It can't be that weather forecasting has gotten less...