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For some time now, I’ve been biting my tongue to keep from asking SOA experts one question. A few weeks ago, I couldn’t stand it anymore. Right in the middle of an interview with Miko Matsumura, the vice president and deputy CTO at Software AG, I broke down and blurted out:
“It’s starting to feel like […]

Are we being oversold on the integration value of SOA?
David Linthicum certainly thinks so. In his Real World SOA blog this week, he takes vendors to task for using SOA as a selling tool. In particular, Linthicum says too many vendors are just repackaging their enterprise application integration (EAI) solutions as “SOA solutions.”
Linthicum is a […]

It’s easy to underestimate SAP when you write about technology, but if you start peering around, you realize how ingrained it is in business and government. My husband works with (NOT for) SAP’s software at his job and volunteers for its ridiculously huge Americas’ SAP User Group (ASUG) conference each year.
I guess you could call […]

I can’t help it – I’m a sucker for free online tools. So, of course, when I saw this Intelligent Enterprise item about a free Data Integration Strategy Recommendation Tool, I had to share.
The tool is the brainchild of Composite Software, which offers data integration tools and services. I was a bit concerned that the […]

Financial services firms will get an extra bit of help with SOA, thanks to a new association started by Microsoft and SAP. The group — called the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) — will include banks, software vendors and service providers. It will share domain and technical expertise, according to the a Finextra article.
So far, […]