sapienti sat: Making SOA Ready for the Enterprise

Like most people I like to get into things early, so for the last couple of year as the governance was moving towards the inflection point, we were brainstorming what would be the next big thing in SOA. And I am pretty sure it will have something to do with semantics. Don’t get me wrong I am not jumping on the bandwagon of semantic Web 3.0 whatever it means – it’s crowded enough there without me. I am talking about strictly about SOA. I see several things how SOA can get semantic and I touched on some of them in my blog: through meaningful service categorization, dynamic discovery and invocation and meaningful mediation. I remember after a two hour presentation about our SOA Governance solution, a customer asked me: “Ok, you have pretty much cornered the Quality of Service issues, but what about the Quality of Mediation?” I am still not sure what this means, but it sounds way cool!

In the spirit of this I have submitted a proposal to the 2008 Semantic Technology Conference which will take place in May in San Jose, California. If I am lucky, I might see you there.