Success Stories & Best Practices

Success & Best Practices Ticker... mouseover to stop scrolling.   |  Gartner's 11: Why SOA Deployments Fail (Gartner)   |  Guide to SOA Governance (Benjamin Moreland, The Hartford)   |  Lifecycle Management of SOA (Jon Eisenstein, CTO, GE Money)   |  Making SOA Governable (Joe McKendrick, SOA In Action)   |  Oh Yeah, and Then We’ll Do Some Governance (Kyle Gabhart, SOA Matters)   |  Reaping the Business Benefits of SOA (Andy Baer, CIO, Comcast)   |  Rethinking SOA Governance (Quinton Wall, BEA Systems)   |  Service Oriented Architecture Best Practices and Lessons Learned (Rick Brown, University of Nebraska)   |  Service Oriented Architecture For Dummies (Judith Hurwitz, Robin Bloor, Carol Baroudi, and Marcia Kaufman)   |  Guide to SOA Governance (Christopher Crowhurst, Thomson Learning)    |  SOA and the Total Cost of Ownership (Mike Kavis, Catalina Marketing)   |  SOA Governance Best Practices (Scott Murray, Bridle Park Consulting)   |  Keys to Successful Governance with SOA (Benjamin Moreland, The Hartford)   |   Advanced SOA Governance - Negotiation (Jeff Schneider, MomentumSI)    |   Best Practices for Good Governance (Phillip J. Windley, Infoworld)   |   Decorating Your SOA Services With Governance Enforcement Contracts (Michael Wheaton, Sun Microsystems)   |   Establishing a Service Governance Organization (Jean-Jacques Dubray, InfoQ)   |  Five Rules for Development-time SOA Governance (Kelly A. Shaw, Enterprise Systems)   |  Gartner AADI: SOA Governance in Action (Todd Biske, Monsanto)   |  Guide to SOA Governance (Derek Ireland, Standard Life)

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