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Training PerspectiveEducation Key for SOA Success Competing messages from vendors on what service-oriented architecture can do for companies has created confusion and lead to delays in adoption in Canada Six years ago the IT industry once again latched on to the next big thing - this time service-oriented architecture (SOA). And to date most Canadian organizations have watched with interest but without rolling up their sleeves. Over what seems like a long stretch of time SOA hype has ebbed and flowed and is now picking up again with renewed industry hope. Although optimism is warranted - with an unprecedented number of Canadian organizations exploring SOA potential - some fundamentals aren't in place yet to support lasting confidence. more > Back to Basics: What is SOA? SOA is the three-letter acronym of the moment with countless vendors promoting it as the future of enterprise software architecture but what does it actually mean? Anecdotal evidence from recent CBR Diner's Club events has shown that IT users are aware that SOA stands for service-oriented architecture and are interested in its potential to align IT and business strategies but are confused about adopting it. more > SOA and the Government: A Slow Process The U.S. federal government lags far behind private industry in its adoption of Service Oriented Architecture Indeed of the federal SOA projects that have been completed most government IT staffers describe the results as partially or not successful - including 14% that describe their SOA project as a fiasco. These conclusions come from a new study entitled SOA What? Who and What is Driving SOA Adoption in the Federal Government? The study surveyed 196 government IT professionals including those employed by the Department of Defense the State Department and other federal agencies. more > 10+ things you should know about SOA #1: SOA is not a purely technical approach It's important to understand that service oriented architecture when practiced successfully is not just a technology architecture. The SOA paradigm is really about modeling the business processes which are not always supported directly by technology components. Ultimately services may be implemented by technology components but the business processes themselves are more important than the services that support them. SOA as a technology is an enabler. The technology doesn't provide direct value. It's not necessarily less expensive to develop services on a line-of-code basis as compared to EJBs or .NET components. Instead SOA technology should be seen as an enabler of other benefits such as improved and broader reuse better responsiveness to changing business processes and better alignment with business processes. more > SOA Upends Development Traditions While moving toward a service-oriented architecture (SOA) often means radically changing how a company uses software applications some of the most vexing issues associated with SOA aren't technical -- they involve the challenge of managing people and policies during the shift. That was the message from several speakers at Georgetown University's SOA Summit in Washington D.C. this week. Their goal is figure out how best to embrace SOA as a way of breaking down rigid business applications into dynamic pieces that can be tied together on the fly to meet changing business conditions. more > Is there a career future in IT? Are traditional career paths for enterprise IT professionals still feasible in the face of outsourcing offshoring and downsizing? Forrester recently interviewed 55 IT and expert executives to learn their views. What did they discover? Enterprise IT execs are optimistic but not proactive in reinforcing the attractiveness of an IT career. But enterprise IT is as attractive as it has ever been taking on a less technical and more business-focused shape. The new IT career paths meander into and out of IT. Entrances and exits to and from business groups and ecosystem partners are not only possible but accepted and routine. more > Less I.T. Hiring Expected American employers will hire 270 000 fewer business-technology workers this year than in 2003 according to a poll of 500 hiring managers by the Information Technology Association of America providing fresh evidence that the IT-labor market continues to weaken. This is still not the job market America's IT workers have been hoping for ITAA president Harris Miller said last week in a statement. Increased competition appears to be the rule for 2004 here and abroad. more > IBM Shows Off Next-Generation Collaboration Software Some of the new technology which emphasizes activity-management capabilities will be built into IBM's Workplace messaging and collaboration software and Eclipse development tools. IBM is developing next-generation collaboration software that goes beyond communications to emphasize activity-management capabilities. Some of the new technology which executives previewed Wednesday at IBM's Lotus division headquarters in Cambridge Mass. will be built into its Workplace messaging and collaboration software and Eclipse development tools. more > U.S. Tech-Services Jobs Grow With Help From Afar As American job growth falters the IT-services industry shines as one of the few brights spots adding 4 200 jobs in July the Labor Department says. As American job growth falters the IT-services industry shines as one of the few brights spots adding 4 200 jobs in July the Labor Department says. That accounts for 13% of total nonfarm job growth that month. But the source of much of the hiring may surprise critics of offshore outsourcing. more > SAP To Add 1 900 Programmers In India The business-software vendor will invest another $24 million and add the programmers by the end of 2006. BANGALORE India (AP) -- SAP AG the world's largest business software company will invest $24 million and hire 1 900 software programmers in India by end 2006 CEO Henning Kagermann said Tuesday. more > Web Services: A Risky Investment in 2005 Since their inception Web services have promised to transform business. But that's not happening anytime soon given the complexity in deploying and managing Web services the current state of standards adoption and unresolved intellectual property issues. more > School's integration team finds innovation without alienation How do you help a team of developers learn to work with Web services when the version of the tool they are using predates the XML technology and thus does not support it? more > .Net Highlights from Around the Web Summaries of the latest .NET articles from around the web. more > |
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