Career shifts: From module experts to process experts
Most business application consultants and experts have a high emphasis in one aspect of the solution (say finance, controlling, HR, CRM), sometimes, they even go to higher focus (marketing campaigns within the CRM) but very few of them would know what happens in the next phase of the process. They usually work in a blackbox mode knowing the input they’re getting from previous phase, how to process it before serving it to the next phase. This... Read More
Are Service Oriented Architectures really dead ?
Anne Thomas Manes published on the Burton Groups’s blog, a SOA obituary. According to her, this is mainly due to the high promises that deceived all CTOs that believed in SOA: more agility, lower costs and shorter project periods. She also sees the economical context of this coming year as the undertaker of SOA. As these projects are by nature transverse and will go across several business units, the funding of such projects becomes a complex... Read More
Greg the architect
Un petit peu d’humour (pour les plus avertis seulement)… Voici un extrait de vie des architectes Click to continue reading “Greg the architect” Read More
SOA explained
Don’t do anything. ‘SOA’ may have meant something once but it’s just vendor bullshit now. – Tim Bray, Director of Web technologies, Sun Microsystems La SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) représente depuis quelques années l’un des principaux maux de tête des DSI, des architectes, des éditeurs et des sociétés de conseil. Gartner prévoit que 80% des projets... Read More
