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A business-focused approach in SOA design, governance

If you listen to industry discussion of service-oriented architecture (SOA), you are likely to get the impression that SOA is best thought of as a technical approach for application integration. The reality is that SOA is much more.

By Randy Heffner | 04 August, 2011 04:28

Tags: Architecture, soa, software

TransGrid begins business process modelling project

NSW state-owned electricity transmission network operator, TransGrid, has started a three-month business process modelling system (BPMS) project to deliver process modelling capability across its enterprise in a standard way.

By Rodney Gedda | 05 April, 2011 11:16

Tags: bpm, business process modelling, Henry Tan, NSW Government, transgrid

Talend acquires SOA vendor Sopera

Open-source data integration vendor Talend is expanding its footprint into SOA (service-oriented architecture), announcing Wednesday that it has purchased Sopera, developer of an open-source ESB (enterprise service bus) and other technologies. Terms were not disclosed.

By Chris Kanaracus | 11 November, 2010 06:59

Tags: applications, Architecture, business issues, data integration, data management, Enterprise application integration, mergers & acquisitions, middleware, open source, soa, software, talend

SOA's not dead says Burton

SOA is set for a comeback according to analyst company, Burton. Nearly two years ago, it was a Burton analyst, Anne Thomas Manes, who proclaimed that SOA was dead but it appears that reports of its demise have been exaggerated.

By Maxwell Cooter | 06 November, 2010 02:13

Tags: applications, Architecture, Gartner, soa, software

Don't confuse SOA with cloud: Gartner

Business doing service-oriented architecture (SOA) for better IT management shouldn’t assume they will automatically be ready for cloud computing, says a Gartner software analyst.

By Rodney Gedda | 28 July, 2010 10:18

Tags: cloud computing, Gartner, SaaS, soa

OSCON: Open source lazy about social Web services

While open-source coders have done a remarkable job of providing a complete open-source software stack, they haven't kept up with the emergence of Web services, charges an executive from a prominent open-source foundation.

By Joab Jackson | 23 July, 2010 05:39

Tags: open source, software, web services

BioGrid develops SaaS e-health platform

Melbourne-based medical research organisation BioGrid Australia has developed an e-health application which promises to break down information siloes between institutions by offering it as an integrated service.

By Rodney Gedda | 11 June, 2010 10:16

Tags: BioGrid, data integration, e-health, health, IBM WebSphere, SaaS, victorian government

SOA is dead because of its success

SOA is no longer a buzzword because it is a concept that has received broad industry acceptance and has become built into software products and services, say a CIO and analyst.

By Rodney Gedda | 08 June, 2010 10:06

Tags: CIOs, Progress Software, soa, Springboard Research, standards

Google's App Engine now in business version

Google will make a strong pitch to enterprise programmers at its I/O developer conference Wednesday with the unveiling of a business version of its App Engine application hosting service and with new cloud portability initiatives in partnership with VMware.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 20 May, 2010 05:41

Tags: Google, google app engine, Google IO conference

Reduce SOA complexity with GIntegrator

A new open source project aims to be a lightweight and simple solution for enterprise application integration and SOA.

By Rodney Gedda | 11 May, 2010 13:17

Tags: GIntegrator, groovy, Java, open source, soa

Public prosecutor shops for software upgrade

The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) will upgrade its financial management and HR applications before the end of 2010 and has gone to market for the supply of software and support services.

By Rodney Gedda | 29 April, 2010 13:09

Tags: federal government, financials, government, HR, sap, soa

Citrus squeezes SOA with open source test suite

A Java-based testing framework, dubbed Citrus, aims to automate integration testing of message-based enterprise service-orientated artchitecture (SOA) applications by simulating surrounding systems across multiple protocols.

By Rodney Gedda | 27 April, 2010 07:06

Tags: integration, Java, open source, soa, software testing

Talend to release integrated data management tool

Open source data management company, Talend, has pulled together its data integration, data quality and master data management (MDM) products into one integrated release. The company said that Talend 4.0 would offers users higher productivity and lower operational costs.

By Maxwell Cooter | 20 April, 2010 05:06

Tags: data integration, MDM, soa, talend

SOA market to reach $US8B by 2016: report

Analyst firm WinterGreen Research has released a new report on the global SOA middleware software market, which is set to grow from $3.5 billion (2009) to $8.2 billion in 2016.

By Rodney Gedda | 13 April, 2010 10:48

Tags: IBM, market research, middleware, soa, WinterGreen Research

Most IT directors look to SOA to cut costs

The majority of businesses will embrace Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in an effort to cut costs, a new survey has revealed.

By Anh Nguyen | 06 April, 2010 06:01

Tags: cost cutting, IT costs, soa, software AG

SOA is not dead, says IDC

Business spending on Service-Oriented Architecture will grow by up to 25 percent worldwide by 2013, according to analyst house IDC.

By Anh Nguyen www.computerworlduk.com | 30 March, 2010 05:54

Tags: IDC, market research, soa

Forrester: Uncertain future for SAP's NetWeaver

SAP customers shouldn't rely on the vendor's NetWeaver technology stack for all of their middleware needs in the future, according to Forrester Research.

By Chris Kanaracus | 23 March, 2010 07:01

Tags: Forrester Research, middleware, netweaver, sap, soa

Red Hat boosts JBoss SOA platform and developer tools

Red Hat rolled out on Monday updates to its SOA platform and development tools in the company's JBoss middleware product line at the EclipseCon 2010 conference.

By Paul Krill | 23 March, 2010 06:39

Tags: jboss, middleware, Red Hat, soa

Mitre 10 taps open source for fast BI win

National hardware equipment chain Mitre 10 has implemented a business intelligence system in eight weeks to centralise its reporting while maintaining compatibility with spreadsheets.

By Rodney Gedda | 22 March, 2010 07:39

Tags: business intelligence, Java, Jedox, Naked Data, open source, Palo, spreadsheets

Home grown eMed app gets Web 2.0 refresh

The University of NSW Faculty of Medicine has developed an in-house student management system, dubbed eMed, which has remained cost competitive with commercial software for seven years and is now being extended into the Web 2.0 paradigm.

By Rodney Gedda | 16 March, 2010 09:43

Tags: application development, eclipse, javascript, Lotus Domino, medical, university of new south wales, unsw, web 2.0

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