Michael Kochanik

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 chal... (more)

The Impact of Open Source Software on Web Services

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 organ... (more)

SOA Web Services Journal - Enabled SOA Transformation

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 enterpr... (more)