Web 2.0 - The Global SOA Podcast

45:44 | Admin | Nov 28th, 2005 1:22am |

Dion Hinchcliffe, CTO of Sphere of Influence recorded this podcast from his speech at SAIC Content Exploitation Day on Nov 16 at SAIC Headquarters in Virginia.

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With Web 2.0 being one of the more exciting developments on the Internet in the last couple of years, there’s been sustained interest by large businesses trying to figure out how Web 2.0 affects them. Recently Darren McKnight, Vice President for Technology of government contractor SAIC, invited Chief Technology Officer of premier enterprise IT firm Sphere of Influence, Dion Hinchcliffe, to come and talk about Web 2.0 at their Enterprise Content Exploitation Industry Day on November 16th, 2005 in Tysons Corner, Virginia. Dion has been publicly discussing lately the similarity between many aspects of Web 2.0 and the popular IT software architecture approach, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). With Gartner saying that by 2008 up to 80% of all software development will be based on SOA, it’s clear that Web 2.0 and SOA will be highly interrelated and Dion thinks even mostly overlapping.

Dion’s Web 2.0 luncheon address at the Enterprise Content Exploitation Day gathering was about how Web 2.0 radically opens up and enriches the content trapped within the massive IT systems of most large organizations. SAIC’s customers are often in the government space and have firewall and security issues that many do not. So Dion focused the speech on their specific requirements in his wide ranging speech that opens up on how Web 2.0 concepts were used to locate Hurricane Katrina survivors, to the origins of Web 2.0, what Web 2.0 is exactly, good Web 2.0 exemplars, and much more. The speech is non-technical and is an excellent resource for anyone trying to get up to speed on the emerging concepts in the Web 2.0 toolkit that have made Google and Amazon major successes while fostering a new generation of innovation and startups for building a two-way Web.

Dion Hinchcliffe is Chief Technology Officer of premier enterprise IT firm Sphere of Influence, leader in agile/lean methods and Service-Oriented Architecture. He regularly advises SOI’s clients in the federal government and Fortune 500. Dion’s Web 2.0 blog is a member of the Web 2.0 Workgroup and is one of the leading sources of Web 2.0 commentary and analysis on the Web.

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