Podcast: Getting smart about 'SOA for Dummies'

Judith Hurwitz, President and CEO of consulting firm Hurwitz & Associates, talks about some of the key sections inside "Service Oriented Architecture for Dummies", a book she recently co-authored.

Here is the 'SOA for Dummies' podcast.

During the podcast Hurwitz discusses:

  • How app dev shops slipped into the stovepipe mentality in the first place
  • Why SOA is crucial for "the very survival of a business"
  • How to administer SOA
  • What functionality is critical to SOA
  • What's fundamentally different about the service lifecycle
  • Why your company isn't so unique that it can afford to forgo SOA
  • Why SOA needs to be more than just an IT initiative
  • What's the easiest thing to get wrong with SOA
  • The difference between Web services and SOA

This was first published in March 2007