As numerous organizations are planning to embark on their first endeavors in
service-oriented architecture (SOA), it is important to recognize that the
necessary organizational transformation has as much to do with cultural
transformation, as it has to do with open, Internet standards-based design.
In fact, the very nature of how business and IT view each other's role and
how the enterprise views its relationships with its marketplace partners and
customers is being altered. Such cultural change has never come easily and
represents a significant organizational dilemma.
At the heart of an enterprise SOA transformation is also the need to "think
differently" about how an enterprise acquires and manages IT systems. Albert
Einstein might well have been talking about the challenges of SOA rollout
when he said, "No problem can be solved by the same level of consciousness ... (more)
As numerous organizations are planning to embark on their first endeavors in
service-oriented architecture (SOA), it is important to recognize that the
necessary organizational transformation has as much to do with cultural
transformation, as it has to do with open, Internet standards-based design.
In fact, the very nature of how business and IT view each other's role and
how the enterprise views its relationships with its marketplace partners and
customers is being altered. Such cultural change has never come easily and
represents a significant organizational dilemma.
At the he... (more)
The impact of open source software on web services transcends simply the use
of actual open-source components; moving to a web services-based architecture
requires a cultural shift in an organizations governance and application
lifecycle management processes. Open source community development processes
have proven to be useful in addressing the natural impediments to this level
of organizational cultural change. In this regard, open source is impacting
the success of SOA adoption. In this session we will examine how open source
(collaborative) development processes, community ma... (more)
Mike Kochanik is vice president of alliances at CollabNet (www.collab.net), a provider of on-demand distributed application lifecycle management solutions for software development. Mike has been a major contributor to the creation of network-centric IT strategies that leverage open source software and community-based development processes at Global 1000 organizations.
Sue Poremba
Scott Sellers
Anthony Franco
Daniel Morris
Wayne Walls
Niki Acosta
Jereme Hancock
Oren Michels
Marvin Wheeler
Douglas Kim
