Are vendors asking IT to carry too much of a load when it comes to selling the business benefits of SOA? If SOA is about the business, why hasn't it ever been mentioned in Fortune magazine? The ...

What challenges await those seeking to build SOAs in their organizations? Unfortunately, they're biggies, according to a new report out of the Burton Group. The consultancy has identified what it ...

This came in as a Google alert on SOA, a gentleman named Willem Kossen, who is an ICT Architect and Consultant at M&I/Partners. He asks the question: "SOA Maturity, Who has seen it implemented?" He ...

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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 ...

It's the little-discussed dark side of the promising market for service-oriented architectures. "No one's trying to go out and screw this up--everyone's trying to do it right," Hamer says. But "until ...

The services-oriented architecture moniker might be “sullied” by industry hype, high-profile failures and misdirection, but SOA is certainly not dead, said one analyst. There continues to be strong ...

Have you heard what a certain software company has been saying about next-generation IT development and deployment strategies? There’s this gem about service-oriented architecture: SOA “is not about a ...

As I mentioned in my previous article, “Microservice architecture is agile software architecture,” my initial reaction to microservice architecture was to question how it differed from ...

I’ve been writing software for a long time. When I was 14, I got an HP programmable calculator that I taught to tell time by flashing hours, minutes and seconds repeatedly. It used a loop of null ...

Everybody knows that service-oriented architecture is all about integration. Integrating departments, companies, government agencies, vendors, and customers is SOA’s sweet spot. What isn’t as often ...

Normally a company changing its name would not elicit much interest beyond all that marketing collateral that usually goes along with such events. But the fact that SOA Software this week changed its ...