Dovetail Software Blogs

"Do we have a communications problem or is communication the problem? Have you observed that many enterprisey architects have put tons of effort into their strategies around SOA, BPM, ECM only to make folks aware? Have you also noticed that even after all of these awareness activities that the enterprise still doesn't know how to build thoughtful services, integrated business processes nor secure ECM architectures?"

"One challenge in designing Event Driven SOA exchanges is to decide how big your event messages should be.  I have an approach that I believe works, and can leverage information that probably already exists in your organization... in the data warehouse."

"Since when does 'adopting new technologies' equate to halting the window-dressing of legacy systems'? Instead, perhaps the responders interpreted 'emerging' to mean adding new technologies to the enterprise arsenal, for example, Wikis and other unstructured content, Second Life recruiting, instant messaging and group conferencing, smarter phones, better search, new Google-ized mapping applications, predictive modeling about customers, RFID, embedded sensors, or robotics..."

"I then encountered this list of 10 tips on implementing IT governance, written by governance expert Alan Calder. He includes a nice, concise definition of governance that may come in handy in getting the business types on board with the idea..."

"In January, we reported how one analyst firm recommends that technology contractors embed SOA into their federal government bids. The government wants lots of standardization, which SOA delivers. However, some observers question whether SOA is ripe enough for the sensitive nature of some government work."