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Joseph Natoli (Intel)

I am a platform architect in Intel Corporation’s Software and Solutions Group (SSG). Specifically, I am currently responsible for the features, value proposition, ecosystem, roadmap and architecture of Intel’s Service Oriented Architecture platform: SOA Expressway. I have been with Intel since 2000 and have had architecture leadership responsibilities across several areas of the business including establishing our roadmap in healthcare, business-to-business integration, ERP deployment, as well as portal and enterprise analytics. I also led our internal IT SOA deployment program to establish the SOA strategy, architecture, success metrics and early deployments. Prior to joining Intel, I led the development of applications in telecommunications for engineering the broadband internet and digital editing systems in the early days of computer-driven special effects for movies. When I am not on the road or at the office for Intel, I am spending as much time as I can with my family.

Applying SOA to improve US Medicaid and Medicare

By Joseph Natoli (Intel) (25 posts) on April 29, 2009 at 2:41 pm
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Whew, it has been a while since I wrote my last blog.  New initiatives for the new year have been keeping me fully consumed.  However, one of these new initiatives has reached a point where it was time to get it written up on my blog. The cost of Medicaid and Medicare has been written about [...]

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Category: XML Software

Standardizing Software Services

By Joseph Natoli (Intel) (25 posts) on March 2, 2009 at 11:32 am
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I recently participated in a webinar with Ken Rubin from HP (formerly EDS) who is the Chief Architect for their Healthcare practice.  The webinar was sponsored by the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS).  You can access it on demand by registering here. The topic was about the need to standardize, and the benefits of standardizing, software [...]

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Category: XML Software

Practical Recommendations for Delivering Software Services

By Joseph Natoli (Intel) (25 posts) on February 10, 2009 at 2:01 pm
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As I wrote about in the beginning of this year is SOA dead as many pundits proclaim?  Or are there new targeted approaches to Service Delivery that are mature, practical, economical, and better positioned for success? We have assembled a panel of Gartner & Burton Group analysts, customers, and events to showcase how service orientation can be [...]

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Category: XML Software

Governing Services ... What does it take?

By Joseph Natoli (Intel) (25 posts) on February 3, 2009 at 5:04 pm
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Service governance is a topic I find myself engaged in often now.  The discussions take many forms such as:  "What is governance?", "How do I apply it to my service architecture"?, "What vendors are relevant?", "What standards are relevant?", "What features and capabilites matter most in practical deployments?" I think this is an important topic given the state [...]

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Category: XML Software

A New Release of Intel® SOA Expressway

By Joseph Natoli (Intel) (25 posts) on January 16, 2009 at 10:25 am
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The next major release of Intel® SOA Expressway is finished and contains a number of new feature enhancements. I’ve put together a bullet list below: Feature Highlights: Application Runner – Allows developers to test and run workflows from the Intel® Services Designer environment.  Speeds up and simplifies development and test cycles.   Programmatic Management – JMX API support allows custom management [...]

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Category: XML Software

It's 2009 ... Are we still talking about SOA?

By Joseph Natoli (Intel) (25 posts) on January 9, 2009 at 3:50 pm
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Happy New Year to all of you :-).  As each year passes and a new one begins I often find myself thinking about where to focus or re-focus my time and energy. Recently I have been forwarded or have come upon a number of articles, webinars, research reports, and blogs with a common theme: SOA has failed.  [...]

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Category: XML Software

SaaS Architecture and API Trends Webinar

By Joseph Natoli (Intel) (25 posts) on December 12, 2008 at 1:43 pm
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Next week I will be participating in a Dr Dobbs webinar on SaaS.  The specific topic is about how SaaS platforms are evolving and what are emerging key architectural models for secure, reliable and interoperable SaaS APIs. The webinar is scheduled for: Broadcast date: Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 Broadcast Time: 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT / [...]

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Category: XML Software

SOA Trends Webinar

By Joseph Natoli (Intel) (25 posts) on December 4, 2008 at 8:03 am
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I recently participated in a Dr Dobbs Webinar with SOA Industry expert David Linthicum. The topic of the webinar is the evolving trends in SOA deployments. The webinar covers how SOA deployments start on a local project level in a department, division or independent business unit. As these individual deployments grow in use by the [...]

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Category: XML Software

Some Upcoming Webinars

By Joseph Natoli (Intel) (25 posts) on November 6, 2008 at 8:04 am
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As I mentioned in my last post, there are several upcoming events where we will be dicussing the emerging trends in service oriented architectures. The full listing is available at the News & Events section of the Intel SOA Expressway web site. Some notable events: On November 13th I will be participating in a Dr Dobbs webinar with [...]

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Category: XML Software

The need for a "Right-Sized" SOA

By Joseph Natoli (Intel) (25 posts) on October 24, 2008 at 2:05 pm
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I have been writing over the last month or so about how the adoption of SOA is evolving in organizations and that in most cases tactical deployment is occuring by individual business domain driving the need for a "Right-sized" federated SOA which segments and connects an enterprise architecture through appropriately targeted layers of technology.  A recent report by [...]

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Category: XML Software

What's better for implementing SOA: All-in-One Stack or Best-of-Breed?

By Joseph Natoli (Intel) (25 posts) on October 8, 2008 at 6:02 pm
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Classic architecture considerations never seem to pass up a generation.  The classic debate of whether it is better to buy and implement an "all-in-one" SOA stack from one vendor or to embark on a "best-of-breed" strategy where specific vendors and technology are selected for specific capabilities is a regular discussion I find myself particpating in [...]

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Category: XML Software

Simplifying Multicore Optimization for Enterprise Applications

By Joseph Natoli (Intel) (25 posts) on September 29, 2008 at 10:16 am
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There has been much written and discussed about the technology advantages and business value of multi-core computing. At Oracle Open World last week, Intel's CEO provided several compelling examples of how multi-core computing can improve business outcomes, save dollars, and even potentially save lives. Selecting a vendor who delivers a highly optimized application platform for multi-core [...]

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Category: Parallel Prog. & Multi-Core, XML Software

Realizing the value of SOA

By Joseph Natoli (Intel) (25 posts) on September 19, 2008 at 1:39 pm
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I went to the InfoWorld SOA Executive forum held in New York this week.  The theme of the conference was "Realizing the value of SOA".  There were several well delivered presentations on the importance of understanding business process first, organizing the right team skills and structure and picking the right early projects in order to [...]

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Category: XML Software

Intel SOA "Soft" Appliance in Financial Services

By Joseph Natoli (Intel) (25 posts) on September 12, 2008 at 9:52 am
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"Time is money".  That old saying is as relevant as ever in the modern financial service markets.  Complex, real-time, and algorithmic trading are constantly pushing the envelope of that phase.  We have recently completed a new benchmark with a financial services ISV, m35 in London demonstrating the performance of Intel SOA Expressway.  In this demonstration, the combined [...]

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Category: Parallel Prog. & Multi-Core, XML Software

Vertical Applications of a SOA "soft appliance"

By Joseph Natoli (Intel) (25 posts) on August 29, 2008 at 8:13 am
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So far I have been posting the last week or so about how to apply a SOA "soft appliance" to overall scenarios like Federated SOA, SaaS, and Mainframe deployments.  XML performance acceleration, in-line / on-the-wire security processing, and manageability optimization also has direct application to specific vertical markets like healthcare, financial services, telecommunications and manufacturing. We [...]

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Category: XML Software

Mainframe SOA

By Joseph Natoli (Intel) (25 posts) on August 27, 2008 at 10:36 am
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In many conversations I participate in regarding Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), part of the conversation oftens leads to "....how best can I incorporate my mainframe in the SOA architecture...".  There are a number of mainframe SOA-enabling options, and in this post I will share my opinion on the application of a short-list of tried and [...]

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Category: XML Software

Integrating SaaS to the Enterprise with SOA

By Joseph Natoli (Intel) (25 posts) on August 21, 2008 at 4:12 pm
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Integrating the hot, new SaaS application into a company can often be a challenging undertaking.  The SaaS application was acquired for a pressing departmental need, yet manually re-inputting and syncing key data like employee, vendor or supplier master directories is not practical.  Manually coordinating a sale by the customer saying "yes" with a win recorded in the sales force automation tool [...]

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Category: XML Software

SOA and SaaS ... What's the Difference?

By Joseph Natoli (Intel) (25 posts) on August 18, 2008 at 3:03 pm
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This might sound odd to some of you reading this, but I am regularly asked the following question ... "What is the difference between SOA and SaaS?". Given the acronym soup of the IT industry I am not surprised to get that question and expect to for some time to come. The simple answer is that: Service Oriented [...]

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Category: XML Software

Usage of a SOA "soft appliance" for Federated SOA

By Joseph Natoli (Intel) (25 posts) on August 15, 2008 at 10:52 am
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In my last several posts I have been sharing the concepts of a new product category I have been referring to as a SOA "soft appliance".  Those posts have covered the origin of the idea, features, benefits and how is it similar to and different from other types of service-enabling infrastructure. Going forward for a while, [...]

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Category: XML Software

The differences between a hard and soft SOA appliance

By Joseph Natoli (Intel) (25 posts) on August 13, 2008 at 3:45 pm
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In the last blog I wrote about the similarities and differences between a SOA "soft appliance" like Intel SOA Expressway and an ESB-based product.  Two key questions often arise out of that discussion: (1) Why do I need a SOA appliance if I already have an ESB, and (2) Why is a "soft appliance" better [...]

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Category: XML Software

Does a SOA “soft appliance” = an ESB

By Joseph Natoli (Intel) (25 posts) on August 11, 2008 at 3:30 pm
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In my last post I covered some of the key features of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) “soft appliance” and how we have manifested those capabilities into a new platform called Intel SOA Expressway. During many early presentations with customers and our first discussions with most analysts, a commonly asked question was “Is this just another [...]

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Category: XML Software

The capabilities of a SOA "soft appliance"

By Joseph Natoli (Intel) (25 posts) on August 7, 2008 at 10:28 am
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In my last blog post I wrote about the origin of the idea behind a new category of enterprise infrastructure which I referred to as a SOA "soft appliance". This post is about the key features and characteristics of a SOA "soft appliance" and how we have manifested those features in the Intel SOA Expressway [...]

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Category: XML Software

The birth of a SOA “soft appliance”

By Joseph Natoli (Intel) (25 posts) on August 5, 2008 at 7:08 am
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A few years ago, we were facing some challenging scalability and costs issues with a key aspect of our enterprise infrastructure. Like many companies we dove head first in the use of XML and web services as a means to refresh a major enterprise application using the latest design patterns of n-tier distributed systems and [...]

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Does UMPC = A game change for mobile computing?

By Joseph Natoli (Intel) (25 posts) on October 18, 2006 at 2:36 am
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As I bet many of you have already heard, there is an industry momentum underway to establish a new category of mobile computer called the UMPC (ultra-mobile PC). If you haven't heard about or seen a UMPC, go check out: www.umpc.com. I am personally quite interested in UMPC due to my involvement in the healthcare market [...]

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Category: Mobility

Immersed in Multi-Core

By Joseph Natoli (Intel) (25 posts) on October 2, 2006 at 7:55 pm
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It has been a while since I have had the opportunity to blog, since I have spent nearly the entire month of September traveling to a number of conferences, customer visits, and internal meetings that have for the most part had a common thread of conversation; that is "Why Multi-Core?" As I expect most of you [...]

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Category: Parallel Prog. & Multi-Core