Did you know?

Did you know 11% of people are left handed Did you know August has the highest percentage of births Did you know unless food is mixed with saliva you can’t taste it Did you know the average person falls asleep in 7 minutes Did you know a bear has 42 teeth Did you know an […]

Software as a Service in the DoD

The enterprise software initiative has a SaaS toolkit located http://www.esi.mil/saas_toolkit/index.html.  Included is a road map and a business model and a list of pro’s and con’s.   What’s missing? Vendor understanding of the DoD market. Certification and IA cost Product management strategy Enterprise licensing strategy that takes into account unanticipated users Consumption assessment – How much […]

HELLO ME IT’S ME SOA and stuff

What is it that you want to hear? Will that make you pay attention? Do you need short bullet style sentences? Or do you need just one liners? Do you need to feel close the subject at hand? Or do you need to feel inspired? What is it that will make you “get it” even […]

Architecture Technology: Questions (DoD Specific)

1. What do we produce…so what…can anybody use it? 2. Do we interface with the customer properly? 3. How does the architecture concept relate to People, Process, Methods, Tools specifically related to the JMT, JCIDS and Federation, additionally cyber? a) Is our mission and tasking consistent with the needs of the greater community? Note* Architecture is […]

Not in great detail but enough to model a service (Trust Computing)

As written here http://blogs.mulesoft.org/how-to-define-services/ derived from concepts defined in Thomas Erl’s SOA series.  The fundamental idea is that there are three levels of services Thomas takes great care to walk the spectrum and discuss use and reuse of services within the scope of the layer in order to accomplish the ultimate business objectives. The reason why this […]