SOA, Cloud Computing, IT Strategy and Architecture

Clouds and SOA: A powerful combination

Posted on 07. May, 2009 by vbrown.

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As evidenced at IBM’s Impact event in Vegas this week, internal/private “Clouds” are a natural evolution (marriage) of platform virtualization and SOA. In leading enterprises, traditional data centers – often a proliferation of internal stovepipe data centers – are continuing to evolve to a central virtualized platform that offers maximum flexibility and use of computing assets [...]

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SOA Discovers MDM

Posted on 02. May, 2009 by vbrown.

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If you asked a random sample of CIOs how they feel about their data strategy, most would probably respond that it’s in good shape. They’ve implemented data warehousing, business analysts have access to BI repositories

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SOA at the “Structural Break”

Posted on 06. Apr, 2009 by vbrown.

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Those of us who are IT strategists and practitioners – and especially if we’re SOA advocates – can gain some critical insights from an excellent article in the McKinsey Quarterly by Richard Rumelt. Rumelt is Professor of Business and Society , An

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Are We Any Better Than We Used to Be?

Posted on 17. Mar, 2009 by vbrown.

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Yesterday, a younger colleague and I were brainstorming about a particularly sticky issue we were facing-involving technology, best practice, and how to communicate benefits to stakeholders-problems we all deal with every day. At the end of our ses

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Master Data Management—the original killer app?

Posted on 05. Feb, 2009 by vbrown.

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Wow! The phone has been “ringing off the hook” in the past few weeks with inquiries related to master data management (MDM)! As an enterprise architect and consultant, I’ve been involved in s