Service Oriented Architecture | Strategic IT Architecture

SOA Discovers MDM

Posted on02. 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 and tools, data security is tight, and they may even have a data governance function in place. Generally, they recognize [...]

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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 , An

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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 ses

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Is SOA Dead?

Posted on03. Mar, 2009 by vbrown.

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Interview with Andrew Sutherland, Senior Vice President, Fusion Middleware, Oracle EMEA responding to a recent analyst comment that SOA is dead.

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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 s