The post of the break was one by Joe McKendrick, who says, “SOA is integration. SOA is not integration. Simple as that.” In essence, he looks at some of the confusion around the value that SOA brings ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) policy adds important business and technical flexibility and control to an SOA-based solution. At runtime, SOA policy provides ready access to change key operating ...

The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. Instead of building monolithic applications for each department, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) organizes ...

IT professionals and business leaders with an interest in cloud services have probably heard the term 'microservices', quite possibly in discussions about service-oriented architecture (SOA). There ...

In light of all the pushing to bring IT to closer to the business, Dana Gardner is proposing an experiment. That is, take an accountant -- or better yet, CFO -- to lunch, to see how much they ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) allows applications from different vendors to interoperate and to be modified to conform to changing technologies. SOA-based tools will help commercial and civilian ...

The benefits of SOA are well documented, but the challenges associated with an enterprise wide SOA deployment are not. While the distributed nature of a SOA encourages reuse and provides a high level ...

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The latest architectural revolution to strike IT is service-oriented architecture. IT managers are not only excited about the promise of SOA, but also fearful of this new paradigm and the impact it ...

“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, ‘Where have I gone wrong?’ Then a voice says to me, ‘This is going to take more than one night.'”—Charlie Brown. This may well be the plight of many CIOs ...

Designing our applications as small independent units is the first step towards building a modern infrastructure that is nimble, agile and scalable. Legacy systems still form the backbone of many ...