EA Day in Adelaide at achurch & associates. Tuesday Feb 8th is EA Day for the Adelaide architecture fraternity (register here if you’re interested, it’s at the Florey Lecture Theatre in the Medical School North Building off Frome Road from 8am), and there’s a few practitioners speaking – both consultants and customers – so there should be some good material. Not unusually in Adelaide, five of the speakers are people I’ve worked with! The event is being sponsored by Oracle via their IT Strategies program – and I feel the two-edged nature of the sponsorship. On one hand, sponsorship is often the easiest way events like this can be held, but in the case of enterprise architecture particularly, the involvement of a software vendor is paradoxical for those of us who believe EA is NOT about the technology (particularly middleware, as in this case) but about the business.
So – thanks to Oracle for helping out; and thanks for restricting the “vendor perspectives” to a couple of sessions!
Study: Only one out of five SOA efforts bearing fruit | Service- SearchSOA's Michael Meehan reported on the latest findings coming out of the recent Burton Group confab, and things aren't looking pretty for SOA. And it may even take outside intervention to set an SOA back on track. 'Many SOA attempts amount only to a less efficient method of doing EAI.' Ouch. Anne Thomas Manes, who delivered the bad news (followed by some good news), said that the consultancy's in-depth study of 20 companies found a "50% complete failure rate," while another "30% were considered neither successful nor wholly failed. " As Anne put it: "Many of them had deployed multiple successful projects, but most of those projects were focused on just one integration problem," Manes said. She added that such JBOWS projects amount only to a less efficient method of doing enterprise application integration, or EAI.
Don't blame the implementers, though. What about that 20% (presumably four companies) that saw success with SOA? A Better Path to Enterprise Architectures.