There’s a lot of talk about SOA and WOA led by ZDNet Blogger, Analyst and great guy Dana Gardner.

WOA is a very fast paced “Web 2.0-ish” way to innovate and mash up concepts quickly. And the massive power of it is that you are standing on the shoulders of Giants who have built “Social Utilities” and amazing Web-Oriented APIs so that you can use astonishingly simple expressions and get vasty goodness (technical term) very easily. (more…)

Globalization compels companies to cut costs, work more effectively and shorten product cycles. The manufacturing industry adopted these measures long ago. New products are manufactured using standardized components and existing platforms. New components are developed only for the production of highly innovative solutions. This approach promotes systematic recycling of existing resources.

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One of the coolest (or scariest, depending on your perspective) things about SOA is that it requires a dramatically different approach to application design, development and operation. Sure, Enterprise IT is no stranger to periodic paradigm shifts in how applications are built. After all, we have all been through other ‘revolutions’ in the past - Client-Server computing, Web-based applications, application servers etc. Like these shifts in the past, SOA is now leading us to the next generation of application design and development.

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We often say that Software AG is truly a global company, and that we serve customers in 70 countries. But what does that abstract number mean? How can we put “shoe-leather” to that kind of worldwide reach? I recently returned from being one of the speakers at Software AG’s Business Innovation Forum in Japan. More than 200 people attended, including customers, partners and the media. Before I go any further, has the following situation ever happened to you?

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Since my post “SOA is Over the Sky is Falling“, I hear there’s rumors on the Internets that the chattering classes are getting impatient with limited SOA success stories. The key example is Analyst and Uber Thought Leader Anne Thomas Manes who recently noted in her blog:

It has become clear to me that SOA is not working in most organizations.

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