About this blog - not just SOA

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.

It's no longer just about Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), if indeed it ever was. I have always spent a lot of space talking about business architecture and enterprise architecture, believing that these topics are important in their own right, as well as essential for getting SOA right. On the more technical side, I have talked about process architecture and event architecture, as well as service architecture and engineering - again with the belief that these topics must be linked somehow. There are architectures of trust and security, architectures of knowledge, learning and intelligence, and architectural issues going beyond the boundaries of the enterprise into the ecosystem.

So I'm going to try calling it Richard Veryard on Architecture. SOA fans will continue to find useful and thought-provoking ideas about service architecture and the service-based business, and I hope to reach a few more SOA sceptics as well. Meanwhile, you may also wish to subscribe to my other blogs: Richard Veryard on Computing for general stuff on the software industry, and Demanding Change for systems thinking and organizational transformation. And I am richardveryard on Twitter.

New CBDI Reports for IBM

Lawrence Wilkes and I have written a couple of reports commissioned by IBM.

I enjoy writing things like this with a colleague, and it often goes much quicker. See if you can tell which bits are mine and which bits are his.

Extending Business Integrity with SOA

This report considers how organizations can improve business integrity using information systems based upon the use of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Looking at typical business scenarios, it considers solutions to different business integrity requirements, and how SOA also extends those solutions to address other business requirements such as improvements to business agility, or the demands of globalization.

Not currently available. Sorry.

Extending SOA with Web 2.0

This paper describes some opportunities to extend SOA with Web 2.0, and outlines some of the IBM offerings that support these opportunities. This paper may be of interest both to IT managers who are tasked with meeting demands to make enterprise systems more responsive to new requirements and easier to access, and also line-of-business users looking to address new markets and interact better with their customers and partners. 


ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/be/solutions/soa/cbdi_ibm_soa_and_web_20.pdf




Obsolete links removed 4 April 2016  

Change of Address

I am moving this blog to Blogspot. If it works properly, all existing posts should be copied across. Archive copies will remain on my personal website, but will not be updated.

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Depending on your feed settings, you may receive repeated notification of updated posts when the blog moves. Please bear with me during this move. Normal service will be resumed etc etc.

Technorati Profile

Squidoo Lens

I have added two lenses to Squidoo. These are summary webpages, containing a brief description and further links.

• Service-Based Business
• Service Engineering
  

(There is some advertising on the site. As site author, I get a share of the advertising revenue, but I'm not expecting this to be more than a few pennies a quarter so I'm donating my share to Oxfam.)

I'd welcome any comments and suggestions from regular readers.

Asymmetric Design

Update: The Asymmetric Design blog has been discontinued and merged into the Asymmetric Leadership blog.

Philip Boxer and I have started a new blog on Asymmetric Design. In the first instance, this blog is intended to explain, expand and illustrate the articles we have written for the Microsoft Architecture Journal. Subscriptions and comments welcome.