SOA Page

Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)

Sooner or later, SOAs will become mainstream. This page is designed to help you make the transation.
Gartner thinks by 2008 they will influence our thinking, which is very pessimistic !
I am designing Data Architectures with SOA right now.
Check out Strike Iron and their UNIQUE Web Services Business Directory to understand what it all means.

Here is a series of Useful Links

Follow these Links for Who's Doing What and the current State-of-the-Art.

Industry Watchers	Web Services	Start here - it's an excellent overview with links to other useful Sites.
Book	Understanding SOA with WS	How to design a SOA-based integration solution.
Industry Watchers	Zap Think	They publish thoughtful articles and offer consulting at $4,000/day for minimum of 2 days.
Compliance	The Basic Profile	Check compliance with the Basic Profile.
Products	Search Facility	Provides search for eleven different Product categories.
Publications	Bus. Integration Jnl	Highly Recommended - eg excellent article on 'Dissecting Service-Oriented Architectures' (pdf).
Standards	W3 Consortium	W3C Web Services Working Group.
Standards	WS-I	Web Services Interopability Standards Organisation.
Vendor	Amber Point	Offers an interesting SOA Dashboard, integrated with UDDI Registries.
Vendor	Cape Clear	A Data Integration Vendor, with a Government offering.
Vendor	Amazon Web Services	Amazon's Developer Scheme for Web Services.
Vendor	Google APIs	A great organisation with tremendous vision.
Vendor	IBM	Excellent links for SOA and Web Services.
Vendor	Infravio	Offers a Registry.
Vendor	Instinet	Offers a UDDI-compatible Registry.
Vendor	Oracle	Offers a ???
Vendor	Polar Lake	An SOA Approach to Data Integration.
Vendor	Strike Iron	An intriguing way to get started using their On-demand Web Services accessible through Excel and published in their online Web Services Directory which is searchable - and here you can create Dashboards from Excel.
Writers	Business Blueprint	Published by PC Magazine
Writers	ESB SOA Framework	Recommended - from Naveen Balani, Technical Architect of Webify Solutions.
Writers	Oracle and SOA	'Solutions Architect' magazine takes a look at Oracle.
Writers	Planning for SOA	A broad and in-depth article on SOA by Ali Arsanjani, Chief Architect, SOA and Web services Center of Excellence, IBM, who publishes a Blog that is worth checking out.
Writers	SOA Blueprints	Excellent coverage from Middleware Research which encourages collaboration from practitioners.