One troubling image has started to emerge for me. Perhaps my perspective is too filtered by my own encounters, and…

Sometimes, Enterprise Architecture efforts fail.  This is no surprise to folks in the EA business.  This failure occurred slowly, back…

As I’m about to complete my share of a longer engagement on using Lean principles to improve the processes at…

Tom Graves, David Linthicum, and I recently got into an interesting discussion on Twitter as the result of a, EBiz…

Almost two years ago, I described some of the key concepts of service oriented architecture, including the distinction between a…

No, Virginia, there is no SOA Santa Clause.  SOA is not free. That said, if I’m changing a system to…

Let’s say that you have two systems: Adipose and BellyFat.  They both need the same information.  Adipose handles customer transactions,…

Just ran across, quite by accident, a blog post from last spring from Johan den Haan on the "Architectural requirements…

I’m always a bit dismayed when I hear the following terms mixed up, or combined: SOA service and business service. …

Todd Biske, whom I respect for his writings on SOA, seemed to miss the mark in his recent blog post…