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SOA at the “Structural Break”

Posted on06. 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 , Anderson School of Management, University of California at Los Angeles. In his article, he describes [...]

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Are We Any Better Than We Used to Be?

Posted on17. 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 session, where lots of extremely brilliant ideas and insights were exchanged, he asked me a simple question. I [...]

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Master Data Management—the original killer app?

Posted on05. 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 several client master data management initiatives over the past few years (including my current engagement) but there seems to be a swell of [...]

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SOA: The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread!

Posted on23. Dec, 2008 by vbrown.

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Ok… I know what some of you are thinking. Enough about SOA already! We get it! SOA is the best thing since sliced bread. But all the hype about Service Oriented Architecture has pretty much outlived its usefulness. Wait…! What I mean is, the term… Service Oriented Architecture… (or, SOA as we affectionately know it) [...]

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Cloud Computing: When Does It Make Sense?

Posted on01. Dec, 2008 by vbrown.

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Cloud Computing: Is it a revolutionary new approach to providing IT products and services? Or a marketing opportunity? We’ve been evolving to on-site Cloud Computing for a decade. Isn’t off-site Cloud Computing just the latest innovation in outsourcing—which the industry’s been promoting in various forms since the middle of the 20th century? I’m a strong [...]