For years, businesses, consultants, conference speakers, and ordinary Joes like me have wrestled with the question of how IT departments can best bring value to their organizations. The best formula ...

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 ...

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 ...

“It’s just the way IT does business.” Service Oriented Architecture, or simply SOA, has generated marketing buzz for the past few years, and it has gained critical mass in information technology (IT) ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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The allure of easing integration costs and infusing flexibility into rigid monolithic applications is persuading IT shops to flock to Web services and service-oriented architectures. But soon after ...

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 ...

We live in an era of “virtual” corporations, rapid product lifecycles, and ever-changing alliances between businesses. These trends put increasing pressure on companies to find flexible, innovative ...