I am now officially almost at the halfway point of the first phase of a software upgrade on production system. As it is an SOA application we took a different approach than most people were pushing for and it is interesting to be here supporting the team as they go through the throws

I am going to attempt to introduce a very crucial topic in the world of Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Service Oriented Architecture. Graham will talk about Metadata and man is it fun.  If you want to start a long and important conversation ask him about it, but be p

Welcome to the 32nd CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X.  Well welcome back.  Today I have captured Graham for another fun discussion on Data Warehousing and Integration.  So I am just finishing a great Starbucks Grande Bold and hope you have found a good coffee yourself for

Hello everyone, Project X is going through a growth spurt and are looking for some great people to do awesome things with us and for our clients.  Here are what we are looking for: ETL Developers (Intermediate to Senior) – Ascential DataStage, Sunopsis BEA Developers (Senio

Welcome to the 30th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X.  Today though we are having a gloomy weather day, I thought we could talk about some items that have been circling around me. So here I am enjoying a cup of Starbucks by myself, so I am really counting on you to join in

Return on Investment is a driving force behind Service Oriented Architecture. By creating a platform for interoperability you create the opportunity for re-use. Re-use is the key to your ROI.  So SOA should embrace the heterogeneous nature of IT and must wrap and re-use existing

I have been loving the evolution of widgets and mashups over the past 6-12 months.  The most funny thing is that back in the hay day of the dot com I remember talking with clients about Portable Web Components.  I guess MIP was ahead of his time. We had a great one which was

You know the song…  I was singing it today and then somehow linked in to the fact that it is a great acronym, so I am going to use it. Service Oriented Data Architecture – SODA I was thinking that as we try to apply the concepts of Service Oriented Architecture in the

Welcome to the 25th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X.  We are just coming off a long weekend in Canada (Simcoe day in Ontario).  A great weekend and a time to develop some discussion ideas.  Today I fly solo and discuss the idea of the ability to do a mind shift.  So in to

Just catching up from the lovely long weekend – fully unplugged even my Treo was off. I follow James Governor’s blog and he has a great post on Where and How SOA works: Some Buckets. Here are his observations: 1. They have a single person ultimately responsible for SOA who