Recently industry analysts, press, and bloggers have been writing about the
state of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and whether it's "dead" or in
the "trough of disillusionment."
These discussions have been fueled by surveys that suggest a decline in the
number of organizations considering SOA, or that organizations have
evaluated, but decided to shelve SOA for the time being. Or, even worse, that
after an initial investment in implementing SOA architectures, organizations
have been unable to capitalize on these investments.
So, what's happening? What were these companies expecting and where did
things go wrong? More importantly, can anything be done to put things back on
track?
Let's review the original promises of SOA and the most likely culprits in its
perceive... (more)
If you are wondering what NextStep'09 was all about, the following highlight
reel from our 2009 event shows all our Agile conference attendees in action -
from keynotes to sessions, partner pavilion and opening reception.
If you attended the event this year - OutSystems customers, partners, special
guests and employees are all in here - check it out and see if you can find
yourself!
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This was a great session by John Rymer and Dave West. They provided some
interesting stats:
• 80-90% of IT spend is on software maintenance
• Business are demanding innovation
• Time to market is more critical now than ever before.
These three stats should be staring you right in the face - How can you be
more innovative in shorter time frames than ever when 80-90% of your budget
i... (more)
As promised, the customer, partner and OutSystems presentations that were
given at the NextStep '09 conference are now available online.
These include great case studies on Agile development, Agile technical tips
and tricks, and discussions on the future of agile, adoption and business
value.
Also, if you have not yet completed the Agile Adoption Survey - it only takes
2 minutes and... (more)
Our next presentation was by Stefan Meier, Associate Director, Software
Development, Information Sciences Department at XDx. Xdx is a biotech company
that relies on software and technology for their Molecular Diagnostic
Technology. They assess patients who have had a heart transplant and whether
they are likely to accept or reject the transplant. They are also working on
a clinical study... (more)
Tony van Büüren van Heijst is a senior pre-sales consultant at OutSystems, responsible for supporting OutSystems customers, prospects, and partners in Northern Europe. Tony specializes in advising organizations on how to apply Agile technologies to develop processes and effective SOA infrastructures. With more than 15 years of experience in IT development, he has been involved in multiple aspects of the application lifecycle as a consultant, project manager and now pre-sales. 
Keith Bergelt
Ricardo Aravena
Gaurav Mantri
Aditya Banerjee
John Karamitsos
Kaj van de Loo
Bob Little
Alois Reitbauer
Chris Schin
Richard Gordon
Anil Parambath
