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Boston in June Enterprise 2.0 on the Waterfront
by Susan Scrupski on May 16, 2008 - 03:41 PM read 3410 times
Source: http://susanitsa.wordpress.com/?p=222It’s that time again, the hallowed Enterprise 2.0 conference is revving up for early June. I was pleased to work on the agenda this year with Steve Wylie, the conference organizer, along with other members of the advisory board. The conference is in its second year and promises to reflect the maturation that occurred in the space over the past ... read more -
Recession and Business-IT Maturity
by Vaughan Merlyn on Apr 22, 2008 - 06:00 AM read 455 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=230Just as a lot of CIO’s were gearing up for a year or twoof growth and innovation, many are now being told to “hunker down” for a period of austerity. The usual first victims - cut travel, cut training, cut anything that smells like overhead! That Enterprise Architecture initiative that was starting to pay off? Cut it back! The SOA pilots? Put them on a back burner. The Relationship Management ... read more -
SaaS and the IT Organization Circa 2017
by Vaughan Merlyn on Apr 17, 2008 - 08:01 AM read 2114 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=232I’ve speculated before in this blog that Software as a Service was a significant force of change on IT organizations. A colleague just turned me on to a (new to me) blog called Think IT Services, and its latest post Why IT Now Sees SaaS AsA Savior. In his post Jeff Kaplan cites several indications that SaaS is gaining acceptance by IT organizations. I think that it’s difficult ... read more -
Business Implications of SOA: Part 3
by Vaughan Merlyn on Apr 15, 2008 - 10:14 AM read 277 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=228The previous post and thepost before that addressed the first 3 business implications of SOA. Let’s discuss the other two major business implications of SOA. First, with SOA it becomes important to understand the distinction between “enabling” and “actualizing” a business process. Actualizing a business process embeds IT automation elements such as workflow into the process. With actualization, the relationship between a business process and its supporting ... read more -
Business Implications of SOA: Part 2
by Vaughan Merlyn on Apr 08, 2008 - 08:39 AM read 1394 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=225In the last post, we talked about the first two business implications of SOA. The first isthe rapidly evolving market ecosystem for “services in the cloud” and the increasing availability of plug-’n'-play “widgets” all made possible by the underlying standards and methods of SAO. This innovation is equivalent to that brought about by the early gun makers with the introduction ofinterchangeable partsinto early gunmaking in the late ... read more -
Business Implications of SOA
by Vaughan Merlyn on Apr 07, 2008 - 06:00 AM read 2389 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=219It’s time (perhaps even long overdue!) to tackle the thorny topic of Service Oriented Architecture. I’ve been preparing an executive presentation on this subject, drawing on one of our multi-company research projects, so it’s fresh in my mind. The research was focused on business implications of SOA, as this was a perspective and context that the research team found was missing from many of the early forays ... read more -
So, What Comes After Level 3 Business-IT Maturity?
by Vaughan Merlyn on Mar 12, 2008 - 05:36 AM read 373 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=201I had a question from a colleague recently that I’d like to address in this post. She asked, “Im going to ask a possibly ‘dumb’ question, but since I believe that there are no dumb questions Im asking it anyway Since level 3 is constantly evolving i.e., todays Level 3 will be tomorrows Level 2 etc., isnt it always going to be a moving target? If I was a company ... read more -
Application Development Trends - SOA Governance: 'Not Much' Success, Panelists Say
by Lee The on Feb 20, 2008 - 01:56 PM read 487 times
Source: http://adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=22055Interesting article on governance and SOA from our friends at ADT. Probably my two favorite quotes: The panelists were first asked to provide SOA governance success stories. The collective answer was "not much so far." And this gem (which I don't actually agree with, but I understand the sentiment): Dave Estrom from Sun challenged the panel, saying, "I think SOA stands for Snake Oil Architecture...customers are asking for specifics, not ... read more -
Web 2.0 Journal: The Convergence of Web 2.0 Mashups and SOA
by Junko Matthews on Feb 08, 2008 - 04:29 PM read 385 times
Enterprise mashups - the convergence of Web 2.0 mashups and service-oriented architecture (SOA) - can create a world of opportunities for enterprises. Read complete article ... read more -
Forget Maturity Models?
by Vaughan Merlyn on Feb 06, 2008 - 05:00 AM read 520 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/?p=172A colleague just pointed me to a ZapThink post last month entitled Forget Maturity ModelsIt’s time for an agility model. It turns out the types of maturity model ZapThink would like us to forget are CMMI and any SOA maturity model. They don’t specifically call out the Business-IT Maturity Model that has been a recurring theme of this blog since I started it in October ... read more -
Reference Architecture
by Tim Revels on Jan 10, 2008 - 03:44 PM read 4 timesHere is my first pass at the project phase description Tony asked me to put together. This is a 1 page ppt so its pretty general in nature, but hopefully it gives you what you wanted - a general description of a traditional implementation process. I added a bullet point at the end of each phase to indicate that each phase is repeatable - this is meant to imply an iterative process ... read more -
Primer: SAML and Single Sign On (SSO) for the BSG Platform
by Mike Roeder on Jan 08, 2008 - 11:15 AM read 1616 timesBelow find a diagram and detailed description of how the BSG Platform User Service implements Single Sign On (SSO) via SAML Bindings (passive and non-passive) Non-passive, UI based SSO What does 'Non-Passive' mean in this context? Non-passive SSO indicates that the user attempting to sign on to an application (bsgalliance.com or e.laborate, for example) will be provided a user interface in order to sign on. It requires human interaction with a ... read more -
Why Does SOA Need Strong Program Management Capability?
by Roy Youngman on Jan 08, 2008 - 09:32 AM read 1808 times
Source: http://www.ryoungman.net/?p=9A lot of companies are moving or intend to move to SOA. Naturally, they are asking what the prerequisites are to be successful with SOA. Im sure there are many, but one that doesnt get much consideration is good program management. The reason program management capability is a prerequisite to SOA is because: The highest value in SOA comes from the reuse of services (as opposed to initial use). To ... read more -
Reflections on 2007 - En Route to 2017
by Vaughan Merlyn on Dec 27, 2007 - 09:44 AM read 2061 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/reflec...It seems like a good time of the year to reflect on significant milestones or events that somehow mark 2007 on the journey to 2017 for IT organizations. Ten years from now, when students of IT organizational evolution look back on 2007, what might the year be remembered for? I’ll split this into a couple of posts as we ramp down 2007. SOA crossed the threshold into ... read more -
Business-IT Maturity: Theory Of The Case - Part 1
by Vaughan Merlyn on Dec 14, 2007 - 06:00 AM read 2206 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/busine...I’d liketo begin examining and making explicit a theory of the case for “Next Generation IT Capability.” By theory of the caseI mean to identify the major drivers behind increasing business-IT maturity, and lay out some basic principles of business-IT evolution - how today’s IT shops are evolving to capitalize on emerging technologies (e.g., Web 2.0, SOA, SaaS) and enable new and more valuable business models. Let’s start by considering thedrivers ... read more -
When IT is Your business - Not Just a Support Function
by Vaughan Merlyn on Dec 13, 2007 - 10:06 AM read 448 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/when-i...I’ve acknowledged previously that companies where IT essentially isthe business (think Amazon, Google, et al) mature very differently than do IT organizations that are essentially supportfunctions (thinkmost traditional businesses, even most financial services companies that arehighly information intensive). We’ve seen this in our SOA research - and this was a pattern I saw in my early days in the world of software development automation. While “embedded IT shops” where IT was ... read more -
Application Development Trends - Microsoft's Oslo: Putting SOA on the Map
by John K. Waters on Nov 09, 2007 - 12:00 AM read 559 times
Source: http://adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=21554"Microsoft has unveiled a multiyear, multiproduct initiative, code-named "Oslo," that reflects a number of its recent enterprise solution strategies. Oslo will focus on using Microsoft's "top engineering talent to build on the model-driven and service-enabled principles of Microsoft Dynamic IT and to extend the benefits of service-oriented architecture (SOA) beyond the firewall," according to the company." ... "The Oslo initiative, announced last week (Oct. 30) at the Redmond, Wash.-based software maker's ... read more -
IT Funding and the Stealth Infrastructure Trap
by Vaughan Merlyn on Oct 25, 2007 - 06:39 AM read 417 times
Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/it-fun...Another common sticking point that shows up in IT funding approaches in Level 2is the “stealth infrastructure” trap. The logic (or illogic!) behind this is, “The business does not understand all this infrastructure stuff (or plug in your enterprise-wide IT improvement initiative du jour - e.g., SOA, Enterprise Architecture) so we will squirrel away funds through other sources to pay for it (e.g., underspend our training budget, add a ... read more -
The Next Generation Enterprise and Enterprise 2.0
by Tony Gonzalez on Oct 10, 2007 - 04:47 PM read 1737 times
Source: http://tonygonzalez.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/the-next-gen...The following is my point of view on a topic that has been getting a lot of attention lately. There are two camps on Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0. Each one has some very good points of view and relevant experience on the subject matter. I will discuss briefly Enterprise 2.0 and how it relates to a Next Generation Enterprise. Enterprise 2.0 is commonly defined as the technology and business ... read more -
Master Data Management in the Service Oriented Enterprise
by Tony Gonzalez on Oct 04, 2007 - 10:10 AM read 1333 times
Source: http://tonygonzalez.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/master-data-...With the latest trends in service orientation from an architectural and from business services offering perspective, it has become a high priority for an organization to define and implement a master data management strategy. The enterprise must look to standardize on management of the transactional, master and transactional data, but often forgotten is the unstructured data and metadata. A comprehensive MDM strategy must include policies and safeguard for unstructured ... read more
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