Webinars

SOA Governance: The First 100 Days
Stephen Bennett, BEA Systems, and featured guest Larry Fulton, Forrester Research, discuss best practices for kick-starting SOA governance initiatives. Dec. 18, 2007

Commitment to corporate development required for SOA Governance to succeed
This webinar will highlight the need and scope of an SOA governance model as well as the commitment required to deploy such a solution – including the commitment to corporate reskilling, why and when you need to reskill your internal staff versus outsourcing, best practices, and specific steps required for reskilling for an SOA environment. Oct. 3, 2007

Articles

Successfully Planning for SOA: Building Your SOA Roadmap
In this continuation of our series on planning for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Steve Bennett emphasizes the need for an SOA roadmap. Dec. 13, 2005

Weblogs

Addressing the challenges encountered on your chosen SOA Adoption path:
Posted by Steve Bennett (steviebennett) on September 05, 2007 at 01:33 PDT | Comments (0)  

What type of SOA Adoption path did you take?: Here is a high-level model that maps organizations SOA adoption and the challenges they are encountering.
Posted by Steve Bennett (steviebennett) on August 25, 2007 at 08:54 PDT | Comments (0)  

SOA 3.0 :): It seems that every article I read at the moment has 2.0 appended to it, Web 2.0, SOA 2.0, China 2.0, Where 2.0, Identify 2.0, Business 2.0, blah, blah, blah. So I thought I would go one better and get a head-start on SOA 3.0 :)
Posted by Steve Bennett (steviebennett) on February 20, 2007 at 00:02 PDT | Comments (1)  

SOA: Myth or Hype?: SOA is still in its infancy and like all new propositions comes with its own juxtaposition of inflated expectations versus cynicism. As I engage with enterprise customers in creating and executing multi-year SOA roadmaps, I have seen the multitude of benefits that SOA brings. But there are just as many challenges to SOA as there are benefits. Unless companies have a strategy to address these risks then very little of the benefits that SOA offers will be realized.
Posted by Steve Bennett (steviebennett) on November 14, 2005 at 00:45 PDT | Comments (0)