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What Every Wall could Look lke

When looking into the topic of Enterprise Architecture it’s a common mistake that it is only about the rational element of change within an organisation. Enterprise culture and the will to change cannot be forgotten in the equation.

The past few weeks we’ve been talking about the maturity of Service-Oriented Architecture and creating Roadmaps in order to become more mature. In all the models that we’ve discussed organizational culture is not part of the measurement.

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SOA Maturity Models

by Douwe Pieter van den Bos on May 15, 2012 · 2 comments

Whiteboard: People & Processes

The past few weeks we’ve been talking about Service-Oriented Architecture and Maturity. But how do we do assessments to measure the maturity? What models are there that we can use. In a presentation I will talk about two major models that are here today that we can use. A model from The Open Group and one from Oracle.

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The Maturity of a Service-Oriented Architecture

March 6, 2012

When talking Service-Oriented Architecture, we all have our specific view on things. This perception means that we can never have a full blown focus on where the complete architecture is headed to. Going from ‘service bus centric development’ to the utopia that’s a context-driven, event based organization. SOA isn’t something we achieve overnight. It isn’t [...]

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Principles of Service-Oriented Architecture

February 21, 2012

Today I hosted a session on the Principles of Service-Oriented Architecture for my colleagues at Capgemini. A very interesting session because everyone had a very clear view on the Oracle SOA Suite and a technical background. What we wanted to do was creating a common view on what a Service-Oriented Architecture is, what the benefits [...]

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Standardized IT-platforms are essential for Business Agility

February 21, 2012

There’s a lot to do about Business Agility in our line of work (I realize I do a large assumption here, but I guess a save one). Software Development is more and more about facilitating change for the business. This is, as I see it, an essential move forward. But when looking at agility, we [...]

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Oracle OpenWorld 2011: Oracle Application Express within Oracle SOA Suite

October 4, 2011

This week is Oracle OpenWorld 2011. Yesterday afternoon I gave my session on incorporating Oracle Application Express within the Oracle SOA Suite. Because of the large amount of questions I got to publish my presentation online, here it is.

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