About

My name is Rick Sweeney and this is my Blog.  I am the former Chief Architect at Blue Cross Blue Shield Massachusetts and an active advocate of SOA in the Health Care domain and in the SOA Management Vendor communities.   Since developing and promoting a “Service Based” architectural approach to system design over fifteen years ago I have seen the growth and maturity of SOA evolve on the technical side to the point where there are many viable products on the market today to develop SOA based applications.  What I have not seen is an equal and parallel growth and maturity in the People, Processes and Practices needed for SOA to become the institutionalized norm.

In other words I have seen a lot of technical adoption of SOA but not a lot of architectural adoption of SOA.

I have been developing and fine tuning my “Service-Based” Architectural Framework over this fifteen year period to its current version which I call the “Service Oriented Architecture Enterprise Architecture Framework” (SOA_EAF).  I have also been refining the policies, procedures and practices to support this Architectural approach over this time period as well.

I offer Executive Consulting services to IT and Business Leadership who want to learn more about adopting an architectural approach to SOA and the significantly more valuable gains and rewards it achieves.  My services include:

• Understanding SOA_EAF and it’s strategic and competitive value.
• Setting up a business plan and implementation approach for establishing an SOA-EAF   Practice in your Company.
• Implementation guidance, oversight and knowledge transfer
• Ongoing SOA-EAF quality assessment and improvement programs

For anyone seeking these services you can contact me by phone or submit your contact information in a comment below.  I will read but not publish these comments.  My daytime phone  number is:

(603) 303-7713

Also, this Blog is another mechanism to get the architectural ideas and concepts around SOA published and discussed.  It is my hope that this Blog will provide a conduit for the promotion, development and distribution of standardized SOA architecture policies, procedures and practices to be adopted by an ever-increasing number of companies.  To this end I hope you will take advantage of this Blog to share and vet ideas that ultimately can be readily and quickly accepted as open standards based on the weight and credibility of this Blogging community.

So to all, thank you for your participation and have fun!