Reality Check » Service Orientated Architecture http://www.softwareag.com/blog/reality_check The official no-hype zone to get your projects on track and on target Wed, 15 May 2013 09:57:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 API Management Demystified http://www.softwareag.com/blog/reality_check/index.php/soa-what/webinar-announcement-api-management-demystified/ http://www.softwareag.com/blog/reality_check/index.php/soa-what/webinar-announcement-api-management-demystified/#comments Sat, 16 Feb 2013 23:16:21 +0000 Manmohan Gupta http://www.softwareag.com/blog/reality_check/?p=1068 Several weeks ago, I wrote a Primer on API management and I have received tons of great feedback and questions from blog readers and colleagues in the field. It’s great to see people are finding API management especially relevant to their mobile and cloud strategy.  My colleague David Bressler (has written several posts on this topic – see Enterprise API Trifecta) and has experience addressing API [...]

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API Management Demystified

Several weeks ago, I wrote a Primer on API management and I have received tons of great feedback and questions from blog readers and colleagues in the field. It’s great to see people are finding API management especially relevant to their mobile and cloud strategy.  My colleague David Bressler (has written several posts on this topic – see Enterprise API Trifecta) and has experience addressing API management with both IT and business leaders. So we’ve decided to team up in an effort to summarize our experiences on a webinar called, ‘API Management Demystified’.

In this webinar, we will cover why APIs are important to your business, how APIs present new challenges, and the question I’ve gotten many times, what are the essential API management capabilities? During the webinar, we will share how customers have had success getting their API projects started on the right foot. Please join us for live Q &A at the end of the webinar to get your questions answered and comments addressed. And don’t worry, we’ll be emailing all registrants with the recording so even if you can’t make it, be sure to register. If you’d like to submit a question in advance of the webinar, please leave a comment on the blog and we’ll be sure to answer your question during the webinar. We look forward to seeing you there!

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]]> http://www.softwareag.com/blog/reality_check/index.php/soa-what/webinar-announcement-api-management-demystified/feed/ 0 Why is SOA so Misunderstood? http://www.softwareag.com/blog/reality_check/index.php/soa-what/service-orientated-architecture-misunderstood/ http://www.softwareag.com/blog/reality_check/index.php/soa-what/service-orientated-architecture-misunderstood/#comments Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:12:55 +0000 Manmohan Gupta http://www.softwareag.com/blog/reality_check/?p=289 Over the years, Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) has been both revered and maligned. It seems SOA is still in search of its rightful and respected place in some organizations. Is SOA dead? Certainly not. Misunderstood, yes. Let’s get the facts from the innovators who are achieving great things with SOA. Over the next few weeks, I’ll elaborate on the surprising [...]

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]]> Over the years, Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) has been both revered and maligned. It seems SOA is still in search of its rightful and respected place in some organizations. Is SOA dead? Certainly not. Misunderstood, yes. Let’s get the facts from the innovators who are achieving great things with SOA. Over the next few weeks, I’ll elaborate on the surprising and fascinating stories coming from the people who know SOA best – the people who have “been there and done that.” Here is a sampling of the topics based on tweets inspired by our customer conference (Process World).

  • SOA Misunderstood?#PW12 800 services with 111 interfaces with 6m invocations/month leading to 55% reduction in dev time! Tremend
    ous results at Avnet with #SOA
  • #PW12 Ayman Taha of Avnet says that SOA is “not a project” but a cultural change.
  • #PW12 I see a top Forrester analyst in the room! @Avnet’s session in room 2.
  • #PW12 Avnet wins the IT transformation award with #SOA helping streamline development processes. Congrats to Ayman Taha and team!
  • #PW12 Rob James, Echo – Innovation isn’t just technology but a perfect storm by combining business, people, ideas, technology!
  • #PW12 Echo entertainment wins the Innovation award for “Innovation”. Congrats to Rob James, CTO and his team!
  • #SOA is the foundation for mobile first strategy at Echo in Australia. “WebMethods was able to deliver” #PW12
  • “Like Starsky needed Hutch and Simon needed Garfunkel, BPM needed SOA.” #AfricanBank Perfect! #PW12
  • #PW12 EPA hosts developer challenge where they are invited to build new applications using EPA’s #API – Very cool! #SOA
  • #PW12 One of the requirements for EPA’s CentraSite implementation was to be one stop shop for developers #SOA
  • #PW12 Karl Heinz talks about #SOA based global integration that DHL implemented for optimizing its business #PW12

The reality is – SOA is alive and well all around the world. Think I’m just dreaming? Then pinch me (figuratively speaking!), by leaving a comment.

 

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]]> http://www.softwareag.com/blog/reality_check/index.php/soa-what/service-orientated-architecture-misunderstood/feed/ 2 How to Make SOA a Boardroom Discussion http://www.softwareag.com/blog/reality_check/index.php/soa-what/how-to-make-soa-a-boardroom-discussion/ http://www.softwareag.com/blog/reality_check/index.php/soa-what/how-to-make-soa-a-boardroom-discussion/#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:28:44 +0000 Manmohan Gupta http://www.softwareag.com/blog/reality_check/?p=295 With SOA success stories being shared at analyst conferences, in customer conference rooms and even at your office water cooler, why are organizations still struggling to realize the full innovative power of SOA? With CIOs focused more and more on the business and less on less on technology, could it be that SOA is still considered just web services? Not [...]

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]]> With SOA success stories being shared at analyst conferences, in customer conference rooms and even at your office water cooler, why are organizations still struggling to realize the full innovative power of SOA? With CIOs focused more and more on the business and less on less on technology, could it be that SOA is still considered just web services? Not according to these 2 organizations who are using SOA to improve our environment and increase customer loyalty.

EPAIncentives for Environmental Innovation: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a US federal agency has implemented a public registry called Reusable Component Services, a clearinghouse of over 1000 assets from several different sources. This ‘umbrella’ registry can be searched by developers for API’s that provide access to EPA’s vast data about the environment. And just like tech leaders such as Google, the EPA even hosts competitions that challenge developers to build innovative apps for the environment. Very cool!

 

Being Loyal Pays Off: Echo Entertainment is a hospitality, dining, nightlife & gaming group in Australia with over 18 million annual visitors. One of their key business objectives is to sign up ‘High Rollers’ visiting the casinos to their loyalty program. In order to achieve their objective, they equipped their employees on the casino floor with a mobile app that identified, in real time, un-carded high value clients who were playing in the vicinity! Under the covers, the mobile app combined live data from the gaming systems with backend data warehouse systems to report the results back to the floor staff. And get this – within the first week of rolling out the app, they signed up 50 high value clients to their loyalty program!

Now is that not considered ‘innovation’, worthy for the boardroom? You tell me.

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