Archive for March, 2006

Association of Enterprise Architects

Posted in General | Tuesday, March 28th, 2006 | 1 Comment »

I would like to make a little commercial for the Association of Enterprise Architects (a|EA) which is a global forum for Enterprise Architects with local chapters around the world. An initiative to make a Danish chapter was made by John Gøtze and Kristian Hjort-Madsen, of course I had to attend the first meeting.

It was indeed a good meeting with about 25 attendants covering a very broad spectrum of both public- and private sector. Furthermore I am now a member of the board, and I am looking forward to our next meeting in a|EA.

Test of ESB’s

Posted in ESB | Thursday, March 9th, 2006 | No Comments »

An Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is not a product, but a concept which can be implemented. However, this of doesn’t mean that a lot of vendors is not selling product called ESB’s. That being said, I am applauding the development we are seeing of the products in the ESB-area! This is simply a prerequisite for the implementation of SOA.

Evaluating these products is however quite a challenge as there are quite complex systems, and furthermore the sales-pitches of the different vendors should make any enterprise architect suspicious. Therefore I was pleased to see the initiative of Network Computing where they are testing a series of ESB products (ends at March 16):

This is really good reading, and I believe a good motivation for the different vendors to make their tools even better 