Cassatt Founder and CEO Bill Coleman delivered the
opening keynote at the
SOA Web Services Edge at the Roosevelt Hotel in
New York on Monday, June
5.
Coleman spoke on the topic, "Software Isn't IT
Anymore."
Coleman outlined a vision of the future in which
broadband access, open
source software, and the creation of true
service-oriented architectures
(SOAs) deliver a variety of services to customers
who are given much more
choice than they are given
today.
Coleman envisioned a future "3.0" era in which
operations costs on the
margin "start driving toward zero," in which
straight-through processing
becomes the norm, and transparency
rules.
"The transformation of business and society is based
on the ability to do
things better, faster, and cheaper. As productivity
advances we can do more
things for less. (In this environment), the Internet
becomes the most
powerful transaction machine in the history of the
world. It allows
dramatically increased response to customers. And
with SOA, businesses are
more flexible, can be more responsive, and this
increases effectiveness."
The "good enough" climate for applications "means
horizontal applications
that can be used by anybody. Good enough means were
not adding huge value
anymore." He said that the three main categories of
enterprise
applications--supply, production, and
distribution--"are inefficient if
they're not end-to-end services with
straight-through processing."
Coleman also spoke of what he termed the
"disintegration of applications
into services," and he termed open source "the
accelerator, the world's
first viable model of reusable code" as a primary
driver of this process.
This distintegration means companies will literally
be able to swap in
modules in the future in a way that they cannot in
the typical environment
of vendor lock-in experienced
today.
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