By Dick Weisinger, on August 16th, 2010
Most of 2009 was filled with bad news around SOA, from an obituary by Anne Thomas Manes in January to the doom and gloom headlines of how the recession was hitting IT budgets, particularly new initiatives like SOA. Half a year past 2009, Forrester is reflecting on what actually happened last year in the SOA [...]
By Dick Weisinger, on April 29th, 2010
About a year ago Anne Thomas Manes of the Burton Group declared that “SOA is Dead; Long live Services!”. Manes wrote that “SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession. SOA is survived by its offspring: mashups, BPM, SaaS, Cloud Computing, [...]
By Dick Weisinger, on July 22nd, 2009
Silos of information have been in the crosshairs of technologists for decades, but it seems like the more people try to eradicate silos, new ones continually pop up. For example, today’s first-generation SaaS applications are providing a fertile ground for creating new data silos, but that is another topic…
The Burton group is out now [...]