Service-oriented architectures are helping companies do everything from automate business processes to increase agility, but implementing the technology is not necessarily forthright. SOA requires the ...

I thought that this post by Scott Draeger, EDP, Senior Product Manager, Exstream Software, was a pretty good description of the good, bad, and ugly of SOA. He lists the benefits as: "Easily integrates ...

Among the ways to keep a service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiative on track, forming a center of excellence (COE) is a frequently named option. Indeed, a recent Forrester survey shows that having ...

The number of companies investing in service-oriented architecture (SOA) has doubled over the past year in every part of the world, with a typical annual spend of nearly $1.4 million, according to a ...

A recent study from market watcher Gartner Inc. suggests that in some cases SOA adopters might be service-enabling chiefly for the sake of service-enabling. A recent study from market watcher Gartner ...

Meanwhile, other vendors, including Microsoft and Sybase, are facilitating that architecture through multiple middleware products that allow a variety of existing applications to work independent of ...

In my last newsletter, I discussed the growing generation gap between Enterprise Service Bus platforms from established vendors such as Oracle and Tibco and the new breed of modular products being ...

With their many technology applications, in stores and at headquarters and warehouses, retailers have long faced the challenge of making all of these applications work together. A POS terminal is of ...

SOA (service-oriented architecture) is replacing Web services, which took the spot of object-oriented programming, which usurped the client/server computer, which supplanted mainframe computing as the ...

The strategy, aimed at helping companies realize the benefits of SOA, calls for a new center dubbed Accenture Technology Lab for SOA Innovation. The new facility, meant to accelerate the development ...