on SOA
First, a wave to the crowd Before we begin, we need to have a serious talk. Somehow, whenever we use the abbreviation SOA in relation to IT in the presence of Dutch people, they start to giggle. Furthermore, they think we don’t know why that is. But we do know. We are reminded of it…
This post is part of my Popping Bubbles series. If you’re new to the series, you should really start at the beginning. If you don’t have that much time, here’s a small recap: the Bubbles are the silos, the Popping is me, trying to bring the silos down with all kinds of technology and failing…
This is part two of the two-parter about CDM. In part one we covered the theory of CDM. In this post we’ll get our hands dirty (and our brains as well) with the practicalities. It’s going to be ugly. From theory to practice At the end of the previous post we discovered that the decision…
Does this discussion sound familiar?“…”“But an employee can also be a customer!”“True, so we would need something like ‘Person’ to capture the commonalities.”“OK, so email should be part of person, but it has to be optional for customer and required for employee. How do we do that?”“…”And before you know it, a phone number is…
In the previous post we started connecting all our company’s systems using EAI. So, here we are, all our systems are now connected. (<sarcasm=on>You wish!<sarcasm=off> It would be nice though, but it seems to be a never ending story). Why did we do this, you ask? Oh yes, our users wanted something. Who are our…