Dr. Chris Harding leads the SOA Working Group at The Open Group - an open forum of customers and suppliers of IT products and services. In addition, he is a director of the UDEF Forum and manages The Open Group?s work on semantic interoperability. He has been with The Open Group for over 10 years. Dr. Harding began his career in communications software research and development. He then spent nine years as a consultant, specializing in voice and data communications, before moving to his current role. Recognizing the importance of giving enterprises quality information at the point of use, he sees information interoperability as the next major challenge, and frequently speaks or writes on this topic. Dr. Harding has a PhD in mathematical logic, and is a member of the British Computer Society (BCS) and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Today, global businesses are increasingly turning to Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA) for their information technology infrastructure and
applications. SOA is becoming an increasingly practiced approach to building
software solutions as it can support integration and consolidation of
activities in complex enterprise systems.
This year the percentage of functioning SOAs has almost doubled, according to
Evans Data Corporation's latest Web Services development survey: "Twenty-four
percent of respondents (the sample data set being 400) are saying they
currently implement SOA, an 85% increase from last year." The survey also
shows that Web Services are now experiencing more comprehensive
implementation, with 30% of respondents predicting they will be using more
than 20 s... (more)
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been discussed as an important
architectural style for the last few years. Organizations have started to
develop service-oriented solutions and many are now leveraging services in
their production environments.
SOA introduces new technical complexities and challenges and makes testing a
critical component of the development lifecycle. Teams need to ... (more)
We can't foresee the full potential of Service Oriented Architecture any more
than Henry Ford could have foreseen the scale of today's automotive industry
when the first Model T rolled off the production line nearly a hundred years
ago. But there are signs that it will be equally far-reaching. If so, this
will because of the same force that made Ford rich: the open market.
Service Oriente... (more)
I’m with the SOA Work Group at The Open Group conference in Toronto this
week (see http://www.opengroup.org/toronto2009-apc).
The Work Group has been busy recently, completing its Governance Framework,
helping to complete The Open Group’s Service Integration Maturity Model,
and working with members of OASIS and the OMG to finish the joint paper
“Navigating the SOA Open Standards Landscape ... (more)
Dr. Chris Harding leads the SOA Working Group at The Open Group - an open forum of customers and suppliers of IT products and services. In addition, he is a director of the UDEF Forum and manages The Open Group?s work on semantic interoperability. He has been with The Open Group for over 10 years. Dr. Harding began his career in communications software research and development. He then spent nine years as a consultant, specializing in voice and data communications, before moving to his current role. Recognizing the importance of giving enterprises quality information at the point of use, he sees information interoperability as the next major challenge, and frequently speaks or writes on this topic. Dr. Harding has a PhD in mathematical logic, and is a member of the British Computer Society (BCS) and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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