MWD FM kicks off interviews with SOA vendors
We let our podcasting get a little bit behind (well actually 3 months or so behind...) recently, and so we're trying to make up for it now. We have two initiatives underway, and this is the first (you'll find about the second one soon).
We've just recorded the first of a series of interviews with senior representatives from IT vendors working to provide SOA-related offerings - the first is with David Clarke, EVP of Products at
Cape Clear.
The aim is to have a go at using the podcast medium to create a set of interviews which people considering or embarking on SOA initiatives can use as an additional reference in their selection process - kind of like an (albeit high level) set of comparable assessments in audio format... if that makes sense!
In order to make these interviews as useful as possible we're doing three particular things.
First, these are
not sponsored podcasts. No-one is paying anyone for taking part in these interviews.
Second, we're keeping each interview to around 30 minutes, so everyone gets the same amount of time to talk about what they're doing.
Third, we're asking each interviewee to address the same four questions:
1) What are the commonly-occurring customer scenarios where your products and services get used?
2) How do you ensure that you "play well" with customers' existing investments - and where is this particularly important in your experience?
3) What are the main challenges that you help customers with - are you primarily helping them with service design, creation, assembly, management, etc?
4) How do you ensure that your technology is easy to deploy and manage?
Obviously there are many more questions we could ask, but given the level of confusion and FUD that currently surrounds SOA and related technologies we think these ones are pretty useful.
We've got a couple of other interviews lined up for the coming weeks, but if you've got particular vendors or groups that you'd like us to interview, please let us know!
Labels: MWD, podcast, SOA
