Agile IT Architecture

Gartner says the " Number of Organizations Planning to Adopt SOA for the First Time Is Falling Dramatically ". I will summarize the facts as below: 53% of person contacted are using SOA in some part of their organizations 25 % were not using it but had plans to do so in the next 12 months 16 % no plan to use it 20 % are building Event Driven Architecture 20 % are planning to do EDA in the next 12 months Since the beginning of 2008, there has been a dramatic fall in the number of organizations that are planning to adopt SOA for the first time. down to 25 percent from 53 percent in 2007 Many organizations have evaluated SOA and have chosen not to spend time and effort on it The highest concentrations of organizations not pursuing SOA and having no plans to do so are in process manufacturing and agriculture and mining SOA adoption in Europe is nearly universal, moderate in North America and lagging in Asia Main reasons listed are: No clear business case – but there is a great de...

Today I would like to present a very nice article in a IT french journal “ Solutions logiciels ”. This is related to sustainable architecture . I’m working with Pierre Bonnet, the author of this article, on this matter, and try to share experiences on BRMS, as one of the corner stones of the Agility Chain Management System , I will try to summarize the main points of this article in french as it is relevant over the world: The IT infrastructure in a lot of companies suffers from a lack of investment to modernize the legacy, which adds complexity when development team deploys new applications. Business and IT managers are focusing in short term ROI putting on hold long term investments needed to build a long term sustainable architecture. Added to these, we can foreseen three layers of IT staff: the senior with their knowledge of the current legacy systems and the business requirements, the intermediate layer with people skilled in client/server and EAI technologies, and the yo...