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It was about SOA all along! (Chapter 1)

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

from previous post about my commented reading of Andy Mulholland's book: "Mashup Corporations. Here are my thoughts after reading chapter 1 of the book " Mashup Corporations. This book illustrates its arguments with the help of a tale of a fictitious company Vorpal going through the process of implementing SOA.

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It was about SOA all along! Chapter 4

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

[Continuation of my commented reading of Andy Mulholland's book: " Mashup Corporations. Chapter 4 is about how SOA can transform the relationships with your suppliers. I will quote from the book how a Vorpal supplier defines these SOA-driven relationships it has built with it's customers (p.57). They help each other out.

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It was about SOA all along! Chapter 6

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

[Continuation of my commented reading of Andy Mulholland's book: "Mashup Corporations. Chapter 6 is about "Internal IT” or the effect the SOA transformation can/should have on the internal IT department/functions. The functions must mirror the key business processes that SOA has formalized. The End of Business as Usual”].

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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: IBM Debate Series - What's.

Cloud Musings

He is a true thought leader in the industry, and an expert in complex distributed systems, including cloud computing, data integration, service oriented architecture (SOA), and big data systems. Membership information available at https://www.ncoic.org/join/ ). Kevin Jackson. View my complete profile. Top Stories.

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Northrop Grumman & Lockheed Martin Selected for CANES

Cloud Musings

Jackson is a senior information technologist specializing in information technology solutions that meet critical Federal government operational requirements. Take the survey, get a book! Membership information available at https://www.ncoic.org/join/ ). Kevin Jackson. View my complete profile. Top Stories. . ► June. (5).

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The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

All Things Distributed

walk into certain Amazon meetings, and you may momentarily think youve stumbled into a computer science lecture. Service-oriented architecture -- or SOA -- is the fundamental building abstraction for Amazon technologies. Look inside a current textbook on software architecture, and youll find few patterns that we dont apply at Amazon.

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge: What if we tried to foresee what will follow the currently unfolding Knowledge Economy?

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

While reading recently the very interesting scientific book “ The Next Fifty Years – Science in The First Half of the Twenty-First Century ”, a collection of 25 new essays by leading scientists edited by J. This nicely leads us to the third extract of this book I believe relevant to the leveraging of Knowledge.

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