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Ajit Sagar

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Companies that decide to invest in SOA sometimes end up going to extremes - too little or too much. Too little happens when some stakeholder latches onto the buzzword and wants to get the benefits promised. However, the environment may be too conservative to invest in the infrastructure and planning required to service-orient existing applications. In this case, an analysis concludes that business as usual is doing just fine, and that there's no need to introduce fancy technologies and platforms. A few minor tweaks to the existing infrastructure are considered sufficient to get on the SOA bandwagon. In the other case, stakeholders buy into the entire vision of SOA. The IT department is looking desperately for a revamp to continue to survive and prove value, and the com... (more)

BPM: Too Much or Too Little?

I'd like to take a moment to introduce myself. I've been working with SYS-CON for about eight years now, across different publications, so when Sean talked to me about providing regular content for WSJ, I thought to myself, "Cool." I am also the enterprise editor for JDJ - so you should see a lot of cross-magazine content. Part of what I want to bring in as "International Technical Edito... (more)

Open Source SOA Web Services: Openly Managing Web Services

Last month I talked to a couple of vendors who are making new inroads in the services arena through open source offerings. Open source support in Web services is definitely very heartening. While the frameworks and utilities for implementing Web services in enterprise applications have matured, the standards of critical functions of promoting the "service bus" concept, which decouples We... (more)

Using Services

It never ceases to amaze me how ambiguity in the definition of simple terms can lead to design choices that have a huge impact on the success of projects. Recently I had a long discussion with a colleague at a client site, where we are in the process of assessing the artifacts that have been created for a Web services-based service-oriented architecture. While we are talking about terms ... (more)

Applying Business Rules Engines in SOA applications

This session will provide guidelines, best practices, and a methodology to design and implement Business Rules Engine based projects to service-enable your enterprise. The implementation areas will apply to large enterprise applications with multiple dependencies. Parallels between different applications of BREs in typical scenarios will be covered and the leading vendor offerings in the... (more)