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SOA Grows Up -- and Out

Not too long ago, IT organizations turned to service-oriented architecture primarily as a way to integrate enterprise applications. But now large companies are using SOA to create components that can be combined and reused as services across multiple applications.

By John S. Webster | 09 March, 2010 06:04

Tags: bpm, soa

Recovery May Drive SOA

Atul Saini, CEO and CTO of Fiorano Software, shares with CIO his vision for BPM and SOA for the Indian CIOs.

By Kanika Goswami | 02 March, 2010 06:48

Tags: india, recovery, soa

10 steps to SOA

SOA is an idea, not a technology.

By Eric Knorr | 02 February, 2010 08:22

Tags: soa

Why traditional security doesn't work for SOA

Many organizations are embracing SOA as a way to increase application flexibility, make integration more manageable, lower development costs, and better align technology systems to business processes. The appeal of SOA is that it divides an organization's IT infrastructure into services, each of which implements a business process consumable by users and services.

By Chris Clark | 19 January, 2010 07:38

Tags: exploits and vulnerabilities, security, soa

SOA grows up -- and out

Not too long ago, IT organizations turned to service-oriented architecture (SOA) primarily as a way to integrate enterprise applications. But now large companies are using SOA to create components that can be combined and reused as services across multiple applications.

By John S. Webster | 12 January, 2010 05:57

Tags: service-oriented architecture, soa

SOA Helps a Music Promoter Keep the Hits Coming

As with paper and plastic, "reduce, reuse, recycle" works for software. Especially when you're a small company in a cutthroat business, where squeezing as much life as you can out of an IT infrastructure can mean the difference between breathing easy and landing on the garbage heap.

By Kim S. Nash | 29 September, 2009 13:44

Tags: soa

Why traditional security doesn't work for SOA

Many organizations are embracing SOA as a way to increase application flexibility, make integration more manageable, lower development costs, and better align technology systems to business processes. The appeal of SOA is that it divides an organization's IT infrastructure into services, each of which implements a business process consumable by users and services.

By Chris Clark | 10 November, 2008 10:50

Tags: soa

Microsoft eyes game-changer for application development

With its ambitious Oslo software modeling platform, Microsoft seeks a new application development paradigm that raises the level of abstraction. But the effort has brought up questions about whether Oslo crowds the modeling landscape and whether Microsoft can achieve its lofty goals.

By Paul Krill | 16 October, 2008 08:03

Tags: programming

Financial crisis: The tech innovations at risk

September 2008 will certainly go down as one of the blackest months in Wall Street history. Venerable financial institutions such as Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and AIG abruptly vanished or were radically overhauled. Investors lost loads of money -- in some cases, fortunes -- and ordinary taxpayers are now finding themselves funding an industry bailout that could cost a staggering US$700 billion, perhaps even more.

By John Edwards | 01 October, 2008 08:45

Tags: hosted services, soa, wall street

SOA deployments: What actually works

SOA may have seemed the savior of bad software architecture and poor development project planning, but the reality is that it's a complex and difficult venture. Thus, the number of failed SOA projects is about equal to the successful ones. In other words, you have a 50 percent chance of failing, and the odds of failure are even greater if you work within a larger Global 2000 organization or within the government.

By Dave Linthicum | 17 September, 2008 08:46

Tags: soa

Internal and External SOA: What's the Difference?

SOA discussions regularly focus on concepts, ideals, scale and grand design. These won't get you to the goal.

By Steven M. Fullmer | 22 August, 2008 12:23

Tags: soa

Ten reasons why people make SOA fail

In early July, when vice President and research director Anne Thomas Manes presented at the Burton Group's annual Catalyst conference, she said most SOA failures are due to people and cultural issues more often than for technology issues.

How to handle SOA vendor consolidation

The SOA concept -- developing a software architecture based on service components that can be mixed and matched as needed to reduce development time and increase application deployment flexibility -- is only a few years old, but the providers of SOA-supporting infrastructure are fast consolidating. Oracle captured the headlines with its acquisition of BEA Systems this spring, and Progress Software recently bought Iona Technologies.

INTEROP - Conference spins technology as a way to save

Technologies that can improve corporate bottom lines dominated the buzz at Interop Las Vegas, promising efficiencies and returns on investment that may help stave off cuts to IT spending in a tough economy.

Are you ready for 'green SOA'?

All of a sudden "green" is the "in" color. In 2007 the IT industry embraced the green data center concept. What followed was an avalanche of PR from vendor after vendor claiming that they were greener than their competitors.

BEA takes an SOA approach to e-commerce

BEA Systems' latest version of its e-commerce tool takes a services-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to tackle challenges brought on by current e-commerce trends, said a company executive.

How healthy is your service-oriented-architecture?

IBM has announced services designed to help IT managers figure out whether their service-oriented architecture is working, a social network for IT workers and academics interested in service-oriented architecture (SOA) plus widgets for non-technical users who want to fine-tune their Web applications.

Confessions of a Cobol programmer

Last year, Michael Vu, a 40-year-old independent IT consultant, found himself in a wholly unexpected place midway through his career.