http://www.bieberlabs.com/archives/2008/03/25/flattering/ Looking for the practical in a world full of cruft Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:13:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.bieberlabs.com/archives/2008/03/25/flattering/#comment-42940 People Over Process » The Idea of SOA - IBM Impact Day Two Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:41:22 +0000 http://www.bieberlabs.com/wordpress/archives/2008/03/25/flattering/#comment-42940 [...] In brief, as I Twittered, SOA is an idea above all else. An idea that states, the old tried-and-true enterprise IT motto of the past decade: align IT with business. LeBlanc gave a 10,000 foot definition of what this means that smacked of SAP-ery: all you tech people need to know your business’ KPIs, and make sure they keep doing well. Technology is just used to make money, the rest are details, as any Jonah will tell you. [...] [...] In brief, as I Twittered, SOA is an idea above all else. An idea that states, the old tried-and-true enterprise IT motto of the past decade: align IT with business. LeBlanc gave a 10,000 foot definition of what this means that smacked of SAP-ery: all you tech people need to know your business’ KPIs, and make sure they keep doing well. Technology is just used to make money, the rest are details, as any Jonah will tell you. [...]

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