By Linda Terlouw | June 27, 2009

Selecting an SOA Delivery Strategy

Recently I wrote a scientific paper with Joeri Terlouw and Slinger Jansen on “An Assessment Method for Selecting an SOA Delivery Strategy” based on Joeri’s master thesis.
The article can be downloaded from http://www.icris.nl/wp-content/whitepapers/SOAdelivery.pdf, the full master thesis from http://www.icris.nl/wp-content/whitepapers/thesis_joeri_terlouw.pdf.
Let’s have a look at the abstract.
Abstract
Organizations should carefully consider which SOA delivery strategy, for instance top-down [...]

By Linda Terlouw | May 24, 2008

Ten ways to identify services

By: Jan-Willem Hubbers, Art Ligthart, Linda Terlouw
Originally published in The SOA Magazine
Abstract: SOA is increasingly becoming an unavoidable part of project delivery for many organizations. It is therefore high time that practitioners avoid the dangerous practice of creating ad-hoc services and begin following proven industry principles and methods. In this article we discuss ten approaches [...]


Linda Terlouw works as an IT Architect in the field of SOA for Icris BV . She advises large corporations about the gradual migration towards a service-oriented way of thinking and the use of ESB technology for its technical implementation. Before starting Icris, Linda worked for several large companies like IBM and Ordina. Linda holds both an MSc in Computer Science and an MSc in Business Information Technology from the University of Twente. Currently she is pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at the Delft University of Technology. The focus of this research is the specification of services working from DEMO models. The research is part of the CIAO! Program.