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How to make an enterprise service bus work for your SOA
An enterprise service bus (ESB) is best utilized for mediation and operational policy enforcement, according to SOA governance expert Todd Biske.
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Meshing service-oriented architecture with the cloud
Success with SOA (and ITIL) implies a maturity around service management. A mature service management approach should correlate with making better decisions around the cloud.
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Enterprise application mashup orchestration
Enterprise application mashup expert Mike Ogrinz explains mashup orchestration in terms of three separate aspects: facilitation, encouragement and of course governance.
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What is a capability map?
A capability model is only the first piece of the capability puzzle. The other half is a capability map that will enable the business to follow the capability model.
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How do you draw up and follow a capability map?
How you draw a capability model and map is really up to you. You can define the taxonomy in an Excel spreadsheet or in any number of EA tools on the market.
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Enterprise mashups cause concern for SOA governance
Do emerging enterprise mashup applications cause concern for SOA governance? They sure do, but SOA governance guru Todd Biske has some tips for minimizing the risk.
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Making enterprise applications more mashup friendly
There's a lot of attention paid to reusing existing resources with enterprise applications mashups, but what about modifying existing applications to make them more mashable?
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Mashups and mobile: A match that makes sense
Mobile devices have become increasingly popular. Providing workers with access to enterprise applications from these devices is proving to be a rewarding challenge.
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Maximizing reusability of SOA services
Reusability is often seen as the "holy grail" of software development – everyone wants it but nobody gets it. As such, maximizing reuse is a very tricky challenge.
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Making the business case for enterprise mashups
Our mashup expert, Michael Ogrinz, suggests a new branding campaign is the answer to making a lasting business case for enterprise mashups as a practice.
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Enterprise mashup software: Where are we now?
Finding stability in today's enterprise mashup environment can be a challenge. Expert Mike Ogrinz explains the current situation and offers practical advice for building new mashups.
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The trick to SOA governance enforcement
How can an enterprise architect enforce SOA governance without becoming the bad guy? The fear is that one can be seen as uncooperative and counterproductive if one says "no" too often. The answer m...
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Building enterprise data mashups with data from Data.gov
There is a lot of content available on Data.gov, the United States' site for publishing data and statistics. Can enterprise data mashups uncover any potential for-profit uses of this public informa...
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When should you consider SOA governance tools?
SOA governance can be defined as the policies, peoples, and proccesses that keep a SOA initiative in line. So when should you invest in tools to help? Our expert has the answer.
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Can enterprise mashups leverage my firm's existing RSS assets?
Enterprise Mashups Expert Michael Ogrinz discusses how RSS mashups can combine existing data outputs in new and useful ways. RSS can even be used as "SOA Light" in some cases.
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What do enterprise mashups have in common with RAD from the 1990s?
People see mashups as delivering faster development time. Is this similar or different from RAD (Rapid Application Development), as discussed in the 1990s? Our expert has the answer.
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Can a service repository be kept on the cloud?
If an architect has created a useful services repository, can that be easily uploaded, maintained and protected in a public cloud computing scenario? Expert Todd Biske provides the answer.
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BPM tools and an SOA: How to pair the two effectively
When pairing BPM and SOA, a BPM modeling tool should take advantage of a service registry/repository. Expert Todd Biske explains why.
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Is BASE a more scalable alternative to ACID transactions?
ACID is used to summarize the basic properties of a transaction in the database sense of the word, not the logical "business" transaction sense. On the other hand BASE is used to summarize the prop...
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What does Oracle Fusion 11g mean for the industry?
Overall it has the feeling of a large set of enhancements to a variety of products in response to various customer requests. Oracle can finally say they have a real app server.
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Thinking beyond 2012 and even beyond SOA
As we move from 2011 into 2012, Todd Biske predicts the next big thing in enterprise architecture -- Event processing.
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The difference between EAI and an ESB
EAI allowed for the central management of application integration, but was limited by the complexity of integration logic. ESBs arose as a more str...
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When collecting ''big data'' see what to consider
We’ve faced the challenge of large-scale data analytics before. The new wrinkle is that we’re able to capture more data than ever. But, we should n...