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Chapter Meeting - Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Modified on 01/04/2008 at 12:50PM by Leanne MacDonald

Our next meeting is rapidly approaching and we are going to have Leo Heska from DeVry University lead the discussion with his presentation on "The Dangers of SOA".

After that discussion we may also get into a side conversation on Integration Appliances, but it may make sense to save the core of that topic for our first chapter meeting of 2008 at Cast Iron Systems. I foresee the team from Starthis and Cast Iron leading that discussion.

Attendees as of Monday 11/26:

Starthis
DeVry University
Collections, Etc.
Cast Iron Systems
BearingPoint
Kehe Foods
Sterling Commerce

AmberPoint

Location, date and time:

Wednesday, November 28th, 11a-1p. Lunch provided!

Information Builders
3010 Highland Parkway, Suite 300
Downers Grove, IL 60515

Quick directions (MapQuest, Google, Yahoo! maps all work well): Exit Highland Avenue off of I-88, head south. Turn left at 31st Street. Take first left into the Highland Parkway "horseshoe". We are the first building on the left, park in parking garage.

Proposed Agenda:

1. Introductions, updates, details of the chapter

2. Membership dues (levels of membership, etc.)

3. Speaker and topic lead: Leo Heska, The Dangers of SOA

4. Open Discussion

5. Wrap-up, feedback, plans for next chapter meeting.

Please let me know if you cannot make it. Bring your colleagues!

Thanks

Tags: chicago Chapter meeting Integration SOA

Integration: Then and Now, Part 1 - SOA Architecture

Created on 09/06/2007 at 06:19PM by Yogish Pai

Integration of business systems is one of the key capabilities that should be provided by IT to enable business agility. This has been the primary objective of all integration effort to date; however, due to various factors most of the integration efforts have not achieved the expected business benefit. Of course, projects with the right executive backing have been successful but have never reached their full potential. The objective of this column is to demonstrate how adopting a service-oriented architecture (SOA) enables a company to achieve business agility and flexibility. This is a two-part column; this first installment deals with high-level integration architecture based on SOA and the second will focus on SOA governance.

Read more about the first column here.

Tags: Integration SOA IC Architecture

Loosely Coupled and Tightly Integrated

Created on 08/14/2007 at 03:16AM by John Schmidt

Loose Coupling and Tight Cohesion between software components are often presumed to automatically result from SOA, but it’s hard to find good reference material that describes what these terms mean in practice and how to achieve them. I was therefore pleased to see that the book SOA in Practice; The Art of Distributed System Design, by Nicolai M. Josuttis contains a chapter on Loose Coupling. This new book will be available from Amazon in late August, 2008 (I was fortunate to have an opportunity to review and comment on the draft).

While it may seem obvious, one of the key points in Nicolai’s book is that loose coupling increases complexity and therefore carries cost implications. The chapter on Loose Coupling goes on to describe various forms of tight and loose coupling and some of the challenges and benefits of each of them.

Tags: Cohesion Coupling Integration

Software as a Service (SaaS) drives new integration challenges

Created on 07/12/2007 at 09:13AM by Steve Craggs

The move to outsourcing particular services (the SaaS or Software-as-a-Service concept) is well underway. But it is fast becoming the new frontier for integration.

Tags: SaaS SOA Integration

The Hairball is Back

Created on 06/18/2007 at 05:48AM by John Schmidt

In a May 2002 article in the EAI Journal, I first wrote about the IT Hairball. The hairball is a complex set of tightly-coupled dependencies between a collection of heterogeneous application components. The negative effects of the hairball include; high cost to maintain since a change to one system demands changes in other systems; slow to change since there are complex dependencies to be coordinated across multiple systems/teams; and unreliable operations due to production surprises from poorly understood dependencies across components.

Over the past five years references to the “hairball” has been cropping up more frequently (although many people still prefer the spaghetti metaphor). During this time I’ve continued to search for a solution to the hairball. I worked at three different organizations, talked with IT professionals from dozens of large corporations, debated with many experts from vendor and analyst firms, and have read countless articles, blogs and books.

My conclusion from all these investigations is that no matter what you do, the hairball will always come back.

Tags: Integration Hairball | 4 comments

wiki-nomics for architecture and integration by John Schmidt

Created on 04/13/2007 at 12:32PM by Michael Kuhbock

John Schmidt's insightful comments on SOA, Web 2.0 and Architecture

IC activity and profile

Created on 02/22/2007 at 09:47AM by Michael Kuhbock

Exciting changes and activity in the Integration Consortium!

A call for members in the Chicago area

Modified on 02/01/2007 at 10:35AM by Shawn DeVries

As my coworkers in New York can attest to, local chapter involvement is a positive thing.

That being said, this is an open invitation to join the newly formed Chicago chapter of the Integration Consortium.

Details on membership levels and participation can be found here:

http://www.integrationconsortium.org/page.php?page_id=2

I was hoping to host the first meeting sometime in late February out in our Downers Grove office (West Suburbs). Based on the initial polling of my own contacts we won't be short on topic ideas!

Welcome!

Modified on 01/26/2007 at 11:46AM by Shawn DeVries

Chicago chapter of the Integration Consortium - starting up.

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