Do's &Don'ts of Legacy Modernization - A conversation with Outsystems
I recently met with Maysoon Al-Hasso, at Outsystems to talk about how IT departments are addressing their legacy systems.You can read our conversation in Maysoon's three blog entries- Q.1 What are the...
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Service Portfolio Planning and Architecture for Cloud Services
The concept that Services are provided ‘somewhere in the cloud’ has always been central to our vision of SOA and we often used the cloud metaphor to illustrate this. Some 15 years ago in our early CBD...
View ArticlePortfolio Management and SOA
In the current economic climate, most IT organizations are faced with extremely tight budgets. Yet at the same time, the business is likely to be exploring new opportunities for growth or improvements...
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How Long is a Piece of String? The 'Dark Arts' of SOA Project Management
We are often asked "how long is a piece of string?" Well that's not entirely true, more likely the question would be something more SOA related such as "can you tell us how long it will take to define...
View ArticleSeveral CBDI Journal Reports Now Freely Available for Download
As well as making the CBDI Journal free from September onwards, we have also published several reports from past journals available for free download. Registration is required (but at no costs)See the...
View ArticleService Provisioning Contracts - New SOA Training
SOA is fundamentally a contract-based approach. The concept of ‘loose coupling’ works because the dependency between implementations is replaced by a dependency on contracts. As long as the contract...
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SOA in Context
SOA does not exist in isolation. Whilst it may be the centre of the universe for SOA aficionados, SOA is just part of a "bigger picture". That isn't to say that SOA can be marginalized. Far from it, as...
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ESB - Everyone's Silver Bullet?
Given its prominence in any discussions around SOA for several years, you might think that by now everyone has acquired an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). However, it is clear that there is still...
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Making Sense of Cloud Computing
The terms virtualization, utility computing and Cloud computing are often used interchangeably which can be very confusing. A new report I have just authored aims to provide clarification - to identify...
View ArticleCloud Computing. Are Utility and Cloud Computing really analogous to...
The analogy is often made between utility computing and other ‘traditional’ utilities such as electricity, gas, water, and telephone. The same analogy is now being made with cloud computing. At a high...
View ArticleCBDI-SAE UML Profile for SOA V3 Now Available
Thanks to the hard work of my colleague John Butler, the latest version of our CBDI-SAE UML profile for SOA is now freely available for download. This impliments V3 of our CBDI-SAE Meta Model for...
View ArticleWindows Azure - Making Migration to the Cloud Seamless?
This week I attended a Microsoft UK Tech Days (a sort of local version of TechEd) on building and deploying applications onto the Windows Azure cloud platform. In typical TechEd style, once a few...
View ArticleEverware-CBDI plays key role in developing ACT-IAC white paper on Enterprise...
Under the auspices of ACT-IAC’s Enterprise Architecture SIG, my colleague Dave Mayo, the President of Everware-CBDI, has led a team in the development of a white paper explaining the role of EA in...
View ArticleTrialing Microsoft Office 365 Beta
Currently trialing the Microsoft Office 365 Beta. It seems tailored made for small businesses like us. Like many small businesses, we already rely on several disparate hosted services such as email, a...
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UML Profiles in Visual Studio 2010
UML Profiles are supported in Visual Studio 2010 (VS2010). Here I examine how they work and whether our CBDI-SAE UML Profile for SOA (SAE Profile) can be used in VS2010Creating a UML Profile in...
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Cloud Computing Reference Architectures, Models and Frameworks
There are a plethora of different reference architectures, models and frameworks for Cloud Computing (CC). As well as several vendors such as IBM or CISCO, it seems every standards or industry body has...
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The Service Oriented Cloud
Cloud Computing is intrinsically service-based. But this is not just in the highly generalized sense of the term ‘service’, but also in the more specific Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) use of the...
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Service Boundaries
Richard Veryard asks in his blog on Service Boundaries "where did all the boundaries go?" CBDI Forum was one of the organizations back in those early days that Richard refers to that promoted the...
View ArticleNIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture
I see NIST have now published their Cloud Computing Reference Architecture as a recommendation. Little has changed conceptually since earlier drafts, but the document is now more detailed and...
View ArticleEnterprise Mobility Framework
It won't be long before Enterprise Mobility is considered 'business as usual'. But right now, it is analogous to the early days of PC adoption, where end users are largely creating the ‘pull’ for...
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