Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

We've all drunk the Kool-Aid and believe in using the cloud. And with almost 1 million active apps alone in the Apple Store it is n...

Fast Company (December 2008) describes Frenemies as a " thrilling intricate dance" of friend-enemy relationships . Half a year la...

I’m sure you’ve noticed that we are historically and fundamentally a consumerist society . We spend a lot of time and money shopping an...

What happens when one set of enterprise architects can’t read another’s enterprise architecture “artifacts”? This may sound ridiculous, b...

Cloud computing —“ a style of computing where IT-related capabilities are provided ‘as a service’, allowing users to access technology-enabl...

Harvard Business Review (HBR), June 2008, has a wonderful article (by Ric Merrifield, Jack Calhoun, and Dennis Stevens) on how SOA is “the n...

What is Service Oriented Architecture?

Architecture and Governance Magazine, Volume 3 Issue 3, reports that one of the Top 10 Challenges in Enterprise Architecture is “Getting Rea...

I came across these Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) best practices and thought they aligned well with User-centric EA and were worth sha...

A “service” is a repeatable business task. In Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), applications are built by assembling shared, reusable, m...