Enterprise mashups

Cloud computing influences mashups and middleware – but midrange legacy won’t move soon

Last week on SearchSOA.com James Denman published a podcast interview with mashup expert Michael Ogrinz, author of "Mashup Patterns." Naturally, they spoke about enterprise mashups, but with a twist. James and Michael hit on the apparent

On App modernization, cloud computing and mashups

Key areas for application development and projects that use service-oriented architecture (SOA) include application modernization, cloud computing and enterprise data mashups. Today we take a second look at some recent SearchSOA.com content that explores these issues. A little while ago, we had...

Tibco Spotfire, others tap cloud for BPM, BI and BAM

Tibco Software’s Spotfire group has released an on-demand offering that shares business intelligence dashboards for analytics using cloud computing as a platform. The move betokens an emerging trend that sees BPM and BAM...

HTML5 and a coming client inflection point

When people first started trotting out DHTML apps for wireless devices in the ‘90s a common mistake was to require that the app was always on, always connected. The problem was not limited to wireless devices. Enter the asynchronous architecture. Ajax especially proved to provide just enough...

Enterprise mashups poised to power app dev for masses?

The PC revolution was not IT’s doing. Adventurous end-users brought the damn things into the company, impressed most everyone, and IT finally got with the program. Back in the day, with PC tools, mere mortals (end users) could learn programming too. They only did it because they got tired of...

Trends in BPM and modeling

Technologies rarely evolve neatly in straight lines. Instead they bump into one another, and influence each others’ directions. Think of a rack of billiard balls when the cue ball strikes! As an example, look at the technologies that converged in IBM’s recent

When SOA met WOA, or Building applications that work while buzz pesters you

SOA has had a bit of a rough summer. The Best and Brightest of the SOA bloggers have publicly ruminated long and lamentably on SOA’s future. There has been a bit of SOA fatigue in evidence. Could it be because many SOA projects are ready to roll out and some people want to be elsewhere when one...

SOA experts, we’ve got ‘em

Pro wrestling legend Rowdy Roddy Piper immortalized the words "Just when they think they've got the answers, I change the questions." Now we at SearchSOA.com are asking...

Big Blue sMashes into Web 2.0

At its Impact 2008 event, IBM today launched a REST-based development environment called WebSphere sMash, based on its open...

The SOA-RIA intersection

Recently we polled SearchSOA.com site members on their RIA and composite application plans. What we discovered is there's a massive overlap between the SOA and RIA audiences.

In all we received 395 responses and 44% said rich Internet applications were part of their enterprise IT/business...