My Professional Library is speaking out! A listing of print resources new and old, they made it to my top shelf. Some have dropped off the list and new ones added, but all together, this compilation should prove to be very valuable to those of you who still read. However, I don't believe the Kindle will be of much help with these reference materials - get the real thing. My hope is to one day, provide some short reviews on each with my personal SOA flare, but for now - trust me or lean on Amazon. More

Are you tangled in the web? Having trouble finding quality places to visit to inform you about SOA, integration, and IT in general? Lost in the Google paginator? Here is my list (updated regularly) of popular sites, blogs, groups and other things is check out on the web. Please comment me on places I left out. More

Oshyn provides industry and technology experience in solving five key “areas of challenge” facing executive decision making and strategic planning within HE industry. The solution set includes expertise in business process, project delivery, both Java and .Net frameworks along with a multitude of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Approaches designed holistically for Higher Educational organizations.  More

Does your integration solution provide value or cause problems?  This question obviously presumes your business has some type of “solution” to integration, and it does.  Every system of information technologies from stand-alone applications to document management to enterprise provisioning must solve the “connectivity” problem.  More

Anyone involved in systems integration at any level understands that what it means to be “connected”, itself, quickly becomes an abstract term with multiple meanings. Enter in SOA and most have no clue what the goal is. More

SOA has two possible destinations: a technology based approach to enable business process allowing organizations more control of their business (where they continue to ask for more) or another technical obstacle the business sees as expensive, confusing and unnecessary (and avoid at all costs). More

In a very real sense, SOA should be evaluated for its benefit with the same criteria as traditional IT software selections.  If SOA is to solve problems, and not create them, then the question is simple. More