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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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) ...

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 ...

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 got a kick out of this article announcing a new "vertical SOA offering" from IBM. "With the launch of something it calls the Retail Integration Framework (RIF), IBM this week gave prospective ...

A group of 18 software vendors made good on their previous commitment to hand over service-oriented architecture specifications to standards bodies once those specifications, designed to make it ...