The Quiet Evolution of SOA

We’ve all found ourselves looking at an organization’s web services and commenting on how “It’s not really SOA”. Maybe because the program still maintains point-to-point interfaces, or maybe the organization hasn’t put in place any form of governance, but for whatever reason, we declare that it simply isn’t comprehensive enough to be considered SOA. That […]

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Shan Gu Foci Technology

Fractal Governance

SOA landscapes today look very much like fractals. An organization may have several internal capabilities presented as reusable services that connect to each other. It may even connect to 3rd party and/or cloud based services. But if you drill down into each of these services, you’ll likely see a composite application that is made up […]

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Shan Gu Foci Technology

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB): To Adapt(er) or Not to Adapt(er)

One of the most commonly touted features of commercial Enterprise Service Bus products (ESB’s) is the out-of-box adapters for other COTS products (eg. SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel). But organizations who become dependent on these adapters and take a “use ‘em if you’ve got ‘em” approach inevitably find that the implementations are a lot more complex than […]

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