"SOA Possible Even Without Service-Enabled Apps." This is a statement that goes against the conventional wisdom, so, being a fan of things that go against conventional wisdom, I checked out this Q&A ...

The future of software is service-oriented architecture, according to Charles Stack, president of Flashline. The enterprise application as we know it is dead. Zombie-like, it still lumbers along, ...

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"All this money is going into ESBs and Web services, and they get a dozen or two integration projects going, but are they getting any business value out of that? I don't see it." -Anne Thomas Manes, ...

The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO), which represents the chief information officers (CIOs) released its research brief, "Service Oriented Architecture: an Enabler of ...

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an approach for abstracting enterprise software capabilities as reusable services in order to support more flexible business processes and ideally, more agile ...

We love our systems. Their growing complexity is something that, while it may awe us, we should all be concerned with. Author Douglas Adams said, “The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity ...

How to test service-oriented architectures is no idle question. A failure in a SOA system at Heathrow Airport’s $8.6 billion (U.S.) Terminal 5 caused £1.6 million ($3.2 million U.S.) in losses in one ...

Travis McPeak explores the forefront of simple and effective preventative security strategies. Domain-Driven Cloud (DDC) is an approach for creating your organization’s cloud architecture based on ...