Dan Foody @ SOA WORLD MAGAZINE

Dan Foody

Dan Foody, CTO of Sonic and Actional products, leverages his extensive experience in enterprise systems software toward designing robust and manageable service-oriented architectures. Foody's experience with distributed systems technologies including middleware, integration and Web services, gives him a broad knowledge of the complexities and requirements for managing real-world enterprise software deployments. He is the author of various standards, and contributed significantly to the OMG standard for COM/CORBA interworking. Most recently, Foody was the recipient of InfoWorld's 2005 CTO 25 award. Foody holds a BSEE and MSEE from Cornell University.

SOA Worst Practices

By Dan Foody

The world would be a better place if everyone would just do the right thing. Unfortunately, doing the right thing is often easier said than done. Especially in business ideas that seem to have the most promise can actually yield the worst results.

Dec. 18, 2006 10:00 AM Reads: 9,387 Replies: 1

The Challenges of SOA

By Dan Foody

'Our processes are bulletproof. Nothing gets into production that doesn't go through the proper and complete approval process.' Famous last words uttered by far too many enterprise architects. Some of them actually believe it's true - others think that by hoping i...

Oct. 14, 2006 12:00 PM Reads: 9,928

The Challenges of SOA

By Dan Foody

Oct. 12, 2006 12:00 PM Reads: 5,825

Transitioning Successfully to SOA and Web Services

By Dan Foody

This session will address how to approach SOA management from a project-based level while still allowing room for future expansion and incremental growth to an enterprise-wide SOA. It will provide valuable insight into how SOA management can help organizations ea...

Feb. 21, 2006 11:00 AM Reads: 5,691

How To Implement A Successful SOA Pilot Program

By Dan Foody; Alex Rosen

Day by day, company by company, IT organization by IT organization, today's enterprise is busy architecting for business-solution agility and the alignment of key assets around the emerging service-oriented architecture (SOA) umbrella. The ability to embrace SOA l...

Dec. 26, 2005 09:45 AM Reads: 30,236 Replies: 3

SOA Command and Control

By Dan Foody

One of the ongoing challenges for business today is finding ways to do more with less. Companies are under relentless pressure to deliver products and services to market faster, better and cheaper than ever before. Investments in information technology are expec...

Mar. 18, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 10,515

Who Owns Web Services Management?

By Dan Foody

When I tell customers that my company does Web services management, the question I often hear is 'so what do you mean by Web services management?' It's no wonder there's so much confusion on this issue, because the term 'management' has been used to mean many different things.

Apr. 30, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 15,820 Replies: 5

XML Acceleration: The Truth Behind the Myths - Don't assume that bandwidth and processing will be problems

By Dan Foody

As information technology professionals progress in their knowledge and use of XML and Web services, the question of XML performance persists. In hallway chats, one might hear that 'XML takes up too much bandwidth' or 'XML takes too many CPU cycles to process.'

Dec. 3, 2003 09:57 AM Reads: 13,868

Building Manageable Web Services from the Ground Up

By Dan Foody

Life is full of compromises, and application development is no exception to the rule. So, when that project deadline is looming (and it always is) you are faced with three options:

Oct. 3, 2003 11:11 AM Reads: 10,450

Accelerating the Adoption of Web Services in Your Enterprise

By Dan Foody

You've just gone to your CIO with a plan to implement your IT organization's high-profile B2B 'Project X' using Web services. Your CIO patiently listens while you explain the benefits of using third-party Web services as part of your mission-critical infrast...

May. 24, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 8,487 Replies: 2