Russell Levine

Business Takeaways Service-enabling strategies for application integration depend on whether the applications to be integrated are purchased, previously developed in house, or being built from scratch. A service oriented architecture (SOA) is as relevant for application integration as it is for application construction. Technology Takeaways Sometimes an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is the right approach to provide SOA features. Sometimes invasive application modification is the right approach to provide SOA features. You have purchased applications. You have existing in-house applications. You have applications you are in the process of writing from scratch. Now your CIO wants to know how all these applications are going to start leveraging this "SOA" that's been in all the papers. Ah yes, S-O-A, the elusive Service Oriented Architecture. You've read the analyst re... (more)

SOA and the IT Pressure Cooker

Market conditions are in a constant state of flux. The economy is, well, the economy. The regulatory environment shifts based on the latest business scandal and which political party holds sway. Plus, there is always a new management strategy to solve world hunger or something. As users struggle to keep up with this deluge, they frequently turn to their friends in IT for help. In this way, IT feels the impact of these external pressures indirectly in the form of requirements. IT's management applies pressure of their own with demands to do more with less, be more efficient, outs... (more)