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SOA awareness up, but adoption slowing
News Growing understanding of service oriented architecture means the technology's place in enterprises is ensured despite slowing adoption, says analyst.
Tags: Services, Service level management, SOA, Survey, Asia-Pacific, Gartner Inc., data integration, best practice, middleware, Springboard Research
Why SOA is the 'perestroika of IT'
Insight newsmaker Independent middleware can help businesses escape the grip of 'monopolistic' software makers, and that will help the SOA provider grow, says Software AG CEO Karl-Heinz Streibich.
Tags: Innovation, Business applications, Infrastructure/architecture management, IT Governance, Mainframe, SAP AG, SOA, Business, Software AG, BPM
APAC CIOs score 'poor' in managing assets
News Region's IT chiefs rate themselves well in executing IT and governance but give low marks on competence in technology and asset management, new survey reveals.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, IT Governance, Innovation, SOA, India, International Data Corp., Singapore, Cloud Computing, CIO
Six ways to make SOA services more reusable
Techguide Find out the elements that need to be considered when building a service intended for reuse.
Tags: Web services, Protocols and platforms, Adapter, SOA, Service, Business Process, Messaging, SLA, Joe McKendrick, blog
Get developers on board with SOA governance
Techguide A service-oriented architecture expert shares eight ways to coax developers to adopt SOA practices with little or no input, guidance or training.
Tags: Web services, Software engineering/development, SOA, SOA Governance, outsourced development team, Developer, ROI, software, outsource, team
SOA and cloud: Clearing up the 'foggy' relationship
Techguide SOA cannot be replaced by cloud computing, or can it? An expert clears the air.
Tags: Web services, Cloud computing, SOA, Business Process, Cloud computing, Joe McKendrick, job, information technology, strategy, analyst
Expoloring SOA design patterns
Techguide In podcast series, Thomas Erl and coauthors of SOA Design Patterns discuss the SOA patterns identified in the book.
Tags: Web services, SOA, co-author, ebizQ, Joe McKendrick, design pattern, podcast, industry, Web, Web services
Gartner: Nine ways to measure SOA success
Techguide There are a lot of service-oriented architecture efforts going on out there, but with no sense if they're delivering or not.
Tags: Web services, SOA, Gartner Inc., Business Process, ROI, Joe McKendrick, Microsoft Visual Studio, blog, analyst, application development
Five mistakes to avoid with mashups
Techguide It's an exciting possibility that end users will be able to design mashups for their own purposes without having to wait for IT to build the interface. Check out the five common mistakes to avoid with mashups.
Tags: Web services, Software engineering/development, Security, SOA, SOA governance, Fast Company, vision, mashup, information technology, Web services
SOA may be taking the risk out of cloud computing
Techguide Current concerns about the viability and ROI-ness of service-oriented architecture are missing a far greater point.
Tags: Cloud computing, Web services, SOA, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Cloud computing, Joe McKendrick, vision, network, blog, information technology
Will SOA be reincarnated as 'private clouds'?
Techguide Private clouds, which offers greater control and security over applications and data than public cloud computing, bears a striking resemblance to service-oriented architectures.
Tags: Business applications, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), SOA, B2B, Cloud Computing, Business Process, BPM, Dana Gardner, Joe McKendrick, blog
Apache Stonehenge SOA tool hits first milestone
News Project, which aims to provide developers with a set of sample service-oriented architecture apps that work across languages and platforms, has seen its first key release.
Tags: Business applications, Open source, Apache Software Foundation, SOA, Tool, W3C, software company, best practice, Programming, programming language
Ten examples of SOA at work, circa 2008
Techguide In the past year, many companies have finally moved on beyond the experimentation and pilot stages when it comes to SOA. Joe McKendrick presents stellar examples of where and how SOA made a difference for some companies in 2008.
Tags: Web services, Standards, Mainframe, ITIL, SOA, CERN, Enterprise Service Bus, Lufthansa, United Airlines, AbeBooks.com
Thai group to implement cloud computing
News The technology will enable the Charoen Pokphand Group to build ready-to-use IT services for use among its subsidiaries.
Tags: Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Infrastructure/architecture management, Web 2.0, SOA, Cloud Computing, On-demand, BPM, CP Group, Poonlab, software
Oracle delivers Fusion 11g updates
News Oracle's updated middleware suite slots into its vision of an integrated software stack that pulls together not only a customer's operations but also the software company's many acquisitions.
Tags: Network infrastructure, Databases, Acquisitions, SOA, Database, Tool, middleware, Environment, social networking, Oracle Corp.
