By David Sprott I am sitting in the african sunshine supposedly having a month off work. However I suppose looking after grandchildren was never going to be a cakewalk! But one of the real benefits of taking time away, even if it's not a vacation as such May. 14, 2012 06:27 AM EDT |
By David Sprott My old friend Dan French penned an interesting blog last month. He was thinking about how the Apr. 5, 2012 12:21 PM EDT Reads: 282 |
By David Sprott Last week Facebook announced its plans for IPO and it certainly made me stop and think, would I invest my money in a company that has a socialist manifesto epitomized by “the Hacker Way”. Sure lots of people will make a lot of money, Feb. 7, 2012 04:42 PM EST Reads: 566 |
By David Sprott Agility is one of those words beloved by software industry marketing people. Over time it has become almost embarrassing and meaningless. Yet if you are in doubt I suggest asking Eastman Kodak, RIM, Palm, Yahoo or Nortel what they think the term means. Jan. 12, 2012 06:23 AM EST Reads: 102 |
By David Sprott I note in the Business Process Trends Advisor Paul Harmon is confused about what is a capability. What Harmon is missing is that capabilities are not just another modelling device Oct. 26, 2011 05:09 AM EDT Reads: 146 |
By David Sprott It’s now fourteen years since CBDI was formed. In the early days our mission was, as a think tank, to evangelize new ideas of modularity, separation, contract based and service orientation. Oct. 13, 2011 08:43 AM EDT Reads: 155 |
By David Sprott When I am asked about the state of SOA, I sometimes comment that anything involving architectural change is bound to take a little time. But my more considered response would be Oct. 4, 2011 11:31 AM EDT Reads: 498 |
By David Sprott After a near death experience SOA is alive and well. After mixed early learning experiences, most enterprises are seeing SOA in a fresh light. Just the other day one company was discussing with me their "SOA Reboot" project! They are in good company Aug. 11, 2011 09:56 AM EDT Reads: 181 |
By David Sprott I note Tom Graves, Robert Phipps and Jul. 8, 2011 06:34 AM EDT Reads: 215 |
By David Sprott I am almost shocked by the vast volume of tweets hitting #Cloud. Of course it’s a reflection of the frenetic level of interest in the subject. But it’s also because Cloud Computing is such a huge, complex domain. Jun. 23, 2011 01:08 PM EDT Reads: 157 |
By David Sprott In October 2010 Gartner Group assessed that Cloud is at the top of the Hype Curve, the peak point of inflated expectations. But no one really needs this authoritative Jun. 15, 2011 11:13 AM EDT Reads: 250 |
By David Sprott There's a lot of loose talk about Cloud and SOA. From what I see most SaaS today is not SOA. In fact it's mostly multi-tenanted Web applications with a browser interface. This "may" be satisfactory for SMEs but for larger enterprises this likely to be Jun. 6, 2011 09:53 AM EDT Reads: 204 |
By David Sprott I am currently working on extending the CBDI-SAE meta model for Cloud. I started this exercise by making some specific assumptions:1. I am interested in the larger enterprise Jun. 2, 2011 09:44 AM EDT Reads: 159 |
By David Sprott Don’t you believe it! For many larger organizations SOA is only now becoming central to key business strategies. Whilst SOA has been around for almost a decade, few companies have achieved real May. 31, 2011 05:57 AM EDT Reads: 143 |
By David Sprott SearchSOA.com interviewed co-authors Thomas Erl and Anne Thomas Manes to discuss their recently published book, SOA Governance: Governing Shared Services On-Premise and in the Cloud (Prentice Hall, May. 19, 2011 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 162 |
By David Sprott Everware-CBDI has announced the immediate availability of the CBDI-SAE UML Profile for SOA V3 (SAE Profile). The SAE Profile makes Model Driven Architecture (MDA) for SOA practical for everyone. Whilst introducing a May. 11, 2011 06:02 AM EDT Reads: 239 |
By David Sprott So Microsoft is to become the new owner of Skype! This is big news for us that run our business and personal communications on the platform. I suspect we were May. 10, 2011 10:44 AM EDT Reads: 125 |
By David Sprott I have become increasingly concerned that in the typical enterprise the major business improvement disciplines operate to some extent as silos. EA is often disconnected from Business Architecture. BPM is frequently not well connected Apr. 19, 2011 10:46 AM EDT Reads: 104 |
By David Sprott I get rather tired of the “Enterprise Architecture doesn’t work” debate. The latest comment from ZapThink is predicated solely on the fact that “architecture must Apr. 8, 2011 05:30 AM EDT |
By David Sprott Following on from my blog on "Beware the new silos!" today I was Mar. 24, 2011 08:55 AM EDT Reads: 104 |
By David Sprott Coordinating EA, SOA, Business Design, BPM, Business Capability Management and SOAM. Mar. 18, 2011 01:06 PM EDT |
By David Sprott Many organizations tell us they are classifying SOA as mainstream – that is the architectural pattern and associated technologies are mandated for all projects and programs and Feb. 17, 2011 04:33 AM EST Reads: 202 |
By David Sprott I note Joe McKendrick at ZDnet asks " Feb. 15, 2011 07:26 AM EST Reads: 101 |
By David Sprott Cloud is confusing, period! Jan. 28, 2011 05:43 AM EST Reads: 188 |
By David Sprott I observe considerable confusion over "what is the Cloud?" The absence of industry standards in this space is clearly a concern. In the early stages of any new trend there is a confusion Dec. 20, 2010 04:02 PM EST |
By David Sprott Over 7 years ago CBDI published its SOA maturity model and roadmap methodology Nov. 29, 2010 05:46 AM EST Reads: 249 |
By David Sprott This following is my reply to one of our customers that asked me to review an SOA standards document. For obvious reasons the client must remain confidential, but I am Nov. 19, 2010 05:23 AM EST Reads: 119 |
By David Sprott Found on a ZapThink email: Nov. 17, 2010 12:22 PM EST |
By David Sprott Get ready for a stream of well worn ideas given a makeover as Nov. 17, 2010 09:28 AM EST Reads: 122 |
By David Sprott I note the Burton Group has published a paper titled the Lazarus Effect: SOA Returns. Key message is after a troubled time SOA is Nov. 3, 2010 10:06 AM EDT Reads: 102 |
By David Sprott We live in a complex world. One way to deal with that is through Views. A search engine is actually a View generator, but I suspect we all feel that search engines, however good, are still blunt Sep. 28, 2010 06:53 AM EDT |
By David Sprott This month we are making some big changes to the way we work at CBDI. We are announcing t Sep. 27, 2010 09:51 AM EDT Reads: 133 |
By David Sprott I was asked the question today, "when is point to point architecture justified?" Or conversely, "when is it not necessary to use the ESB?" Aug. 12, 2010 10:46 AM EDT Reads: 111 |
By David Sprott There’s been a flurry of resurgent interest in cyberwarfare in the last couple of months. It’s clearly a topic that Jul. 20, 2010 04:05 PM EDT |
David Sprott is a consultant, researcher and educator specializing in service oriented architecture, application modernization and cloud computing. Since 1997 David founded and led the well known think tank CBDI Forum providing unique research and guidance around loose coupled architecture, technologies and practices to F5000 companies and governments worldwide. As CEO of Everware-CBDI International a UK based corporation, he directs the global research and international consulting operations of the leading independent advisors on Service Oriented Application Modernization.
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