While I was reading Small Companies do not have time for SOA and Microsoft’s Just Do it SOA, I was wondering how Business Rules Technology so nicely fits in with this idea.
Personally, I am normally careful about any big bang approaches to change, and the popular SOA philosophy seems to be propounding exactly that. I like the […]

This is my final post in this series.In part 1, I introduced Decision Services, in part 2, I talked about the challenges in implementing Decision Services.
In this post, I will attempt to come up with a set of capabilities that you need to aim to have when using rule driven Decision Services
The SOA Life Cycle
Before […]

In this post, I will attempt to cover the implementation landscape including actors and roles, technologies and skill sets. I will attempt to identify the typical challenges that might arise when using rule driven Decision Services in an SOA.
A little Background
Lets take the example of a Pricing Service in a Loan Process. A Pricing Service […]

This is the first of my 3 part series on real world SOA and rule driven decision services. I am going to essentially talk about the following items

What you need to know about a Decision Service ?
The implementation landscape including actors and roles, technologies and skill sets. What are the typical challenges that might arise […]

I have found myself explaining Service Orientation to members in YASU these last few days, and it seemed to be a perfect opportunity to get back into my blogging ways once again.
Here is a simplified version of a Loan Process. I’ll use this to talk about Service Orientation , and where a Business Rules driven […]

Joe Mckendrick asks Is EDA the ‘new’ SOA ?.I was thinking about what SOA is and what is EDA. Now this is what I think.
SOA >> A architectural model where systems are modeled as Service Providers and Service Consumers. Decoupling is provided for because the Service Providers and Service Consumers use the Service Definition […]

I was reading Todd Biske as he writes on Service Delivery in a S.O.A. The point that I liked was when he says that the Service in SOA is the delivered Service & not Service as in Web Service.
I agree with this thought process so very much. Most of the time, I believe, we lose […]

Evan Schuman writes in EWeek about Multichannel E-Commerce Inefficiency Can No Longer Be Ignored. Thinking about it, here is what flew across my mind.
Lets look at the problem.

Increasingly, customers are shopping across multiple channels (Web, Store, Telephone)
Customer Databases across channels are not shared.
Integration is a weak point, and in many cases, non-existent.

Now, see this excerpt.
Is […]

This is one great article that walks you through all the different WS-* standards, and what you should know to build inter operable Web Services.
Web Services Specifications and SOA Interoperability
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Does Technology make Managers lazy?
Is SOA the Magic potion that business need to drink?

Both and neither, is what I would say.One interesting quote that the first post provides is this.
I once spoke with a consultant who told me about working with the British military. Years ago, if you were becoming an officer, you were sent […]