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10 IT skills where expertise pays the most

CIO Business Intelligence

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural framework used for software development that focuses on applications and systems as independent services. Average salary for expertise: $172,772 Average salary for regular use: $137,626 Difference: $35,146 2.

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A CIO’s gift guide for IT and business colleagues

CIO Business Intelligence

Hint: It starts with SOA. Some companies still treat project management as a trial role for employees with managerial promise. But that still leaves developers high and dry when the time comes to design and implement the robust set of ESB connectors they’ll need to keep the integration process manageable. But that’s okay.

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A CIO’s gift guide for IT and business colleagues

CIO Business Intelligence

Hint: It starts with SOA. Some companies still treat project management as a trial role for employees with managerial promise. But that still leaves developers high and dry when the time comes to design and implement the robust set of ESB connectors they’ll need to keep the integration process manageable. But that’s okay.

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What’s new in TOGAF 10?

CIO Business Intelligence

With the release of TOGAF 10, The Open Group hopes to make the framework more accessible to companies that wish to implement its best practices. It’s the biggest change to the framework since 2011, when the company released TOGAF 9.1. Even more customizable. TOGAF 10 certification.

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3 commandments that should drive every API strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

In the early 2000s, companies like Amazon, eBay, and Salesforce drove a trend toward standardizing interfaces among web applications. The first is that all interfaces among software developed by any team should be through APIs; the second is that teams should write internal APIs as if they were to be consumed by people outside the company.

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It was about SOA all along!

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

After reading some recent articles on his blog I quickly realized I had to read his latest book about Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) titled: " Mashup Corporations. And the most amazing is that I never even mentioned SOA. I will leave the last two questions more concerned with the company's IT function/department for now.

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It was about SOA all along! Chapter 7

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

Chapter 7 is about the "typical” barriers to implementing SOA throughout an organization. The authors added this chapter in the 2nd edition following a suggestion by Avrami Tzur (VP of SOA at HP). I am sure Avrami was far from being the only one noticing the need for addressing this topic after reading the 1st edition of the book.

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