SOA is re-emerging, says Gartner

As recently announced "SOA is emerging from the Trough of Disillusionment within Gartner's Hype Cycle, and it is climbing the Slope of Enlightenment". Which is obviously good news.

Factors contributing to this resurgence are:

• The evolution of SOA beyond its clasical RPC-style (SOAP), on to REST, Web-oriented architecture and EDA
• SOA's enabling role in SaaS, BPM and Cloud Computing, which are currenlty increasing in popularity and adoption
• Underway SOA initiatives being accelerated, because of users wanting the benefits of SOA sooner.
• Unplanned adoptions of SOA resulting from deploying and using new packaged applications built with SOA

It recognizes that "Good engineering principles such as those embodied in SOA are timeless," as Jeff Thompson said in the Gartner report.

Presentations From The Microsoft SOA/BMP Conference 2009 Available

Both slides decks and videos from the presentations at the past 2009 Microsoft SOA & BPM Conference are now available here.

Presentations Decks From The Microsoft SOA/BPM Conference 2007 Now Available

All the presentation decks from the recent SOA & BPM Conference 2007 can now be downloaded from the conference download page in PDF format.

Microsoft ESB Guidance for BizTalk Server 2006 R2 finally released

They confirmed it both at the SOA & BPM Conference 2007 as well as at TechEd 2007 Europe. The long awaited release of the ESB Guidance was supposed to be out by now.

Yet even now only the CTP3 release is announced at the CodePlex site.

Only on this discussion thead I learned that the bits for the (final) RTM release could already be downloaded from here.