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Joe McKendrick's recent post comments that many analysts are now putting SOA governance and SOA management tools into a single category. He cites arguments that they are in fact very different, stating that while governance is about managing the development and the life cycle of services,...

As we talk to customers and prospects who are beginning to plan or enhance their SOA, we've realized that data is often overlooked in the development of a SOA infrastructure. As a matter of fact, some SOA technologists refer to it as the "day 2" problem. Why? Well, we think it might be...

We have all seen google app engine, amazon's web services, SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) from Microsoft, and others. The whole premise behind the movement is to make your IT infrastructure "rentable". I for one think that this is both a great idea and a bad one all at once. For instance, it makes...

Talking to people,...

I had the privilege to speak at the IDC Event in Buenos Aries last week on Socially Oriented Architecture and then visit some companies who have or are about to invest in SOA infrastructure...

One of the major new areas in OpenEdge 10 is the language support for classes. ABL now lets you define source files as classes, as an alternative to procedures, to take advantage of many valuable object-oriented features established by languages like Java and C#, including inheritance and...

Last week Jeremy Suratt made an interesting point on the Infor Tech Talk blog.  He says that event-driven architecture (EDA) is different from traditional service-oriented architecture (SOA) in the...

1+1=3: Marrying Best-of-Breed Tools for Business Process Governance
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 11:00 am EST
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Communication is the basis of any successful relationship, including the communications between business people and technologists....

If you were listening to the webinar I gave a few days ago, you probably remember the phone system going haywire with feedback (don't worry, if you listen to the recording we're posting, this will have been edited out).

One of the topics I was talking about right at the time the feedback...