Architecture, Data and Intelligence

Is there a framework or methodology for establishing the business / ecosystem requirements to drive API strategy and development...

This week, three American companies announced a joint venture to sort out healthcare for their own employees. Ambitious, huh? This is not ...

My friend and former colleague Lawrence Wilkes died on Friday, after a short illness. Lawrence and I joined James Martin Associates (JMA) on...

# entarch This post follows discussions with Graham Berrisford of Avancier about the relationship between Enterprise Architecture (EA) and...

A service has explicit boundaries This is one of the four tenets of SOA, promulgated by Microsoft and others around 2004. In its (now di...

What are the problems of large complex sociotechnical systems? How far do SOA and enterprise architecture help to address this problem space...

#soa #risk In this post, I identify some contrasting views on the relationship between SOA and risk. SOA involves innovation, and innovati...

@ cbdi # SOA My friends at the CBDI Forum have been applying their expertise in Service-Oriented Architecture to the question of Applicati...

Prompted by a rude comment about me that my pal Lawrence found on a Google group, I spent the weekend thinking about the title of this blog....

The principle of subsidiarity states that central planning only applies to those things that require central planning. Applying this princ...

The SOA world is finally catching up with some of the ecosystem ideas that I published in my 2001 book on the Component-Based Business ( see...

One of the ways to think about the complexity of SOA is as a multi-sided platform. Some of the pioneering work on multi-sided platforms ha...

As this is my last day as a full-time employee of the CBDI Forum, I thought I'd permit myself a little retrospective discussion on Servi...

@ JohanDenHaan pointed me at a couple of articles by Bill Poole Layered Service Models are Bad Layered Service Models are Bad (continued) B...

I have just got my hands on a copy of the SOA Sourcebook , produced by the SOA Work Group of The Open Group and launched at the Open Group A...

What on earth did the banks do with all the money? No, I'm not talking about the money they blew on dodgy financial instruments. I'm...

For many organizations, the main worry today is Business Survival. ZDNet blogger Ian Finley reckons "companies will need architects w...

Holism is another one of those much-abused words. Does it mean anything at all for Service-Oriented Architecture? In a keynote address to EN...

Shall we see SOA as a software engineering challenge or a business opportunity? TOGAF 9 makes a clear and unequivocal statement in favour of...

Wikipedia's definition of holism traces back to Jan Smuts Holism ... is the idea that all the properties of a given system (biologic...