Ask an IT executive to define service-oriented architecture (SOA), and there’s a good chance you’ll get at least some kind of a reasonable answer. Ask that executive’s functional peers the same ...

Robin Bloor informs us that he, along with Hurwitz Group colleagues Judith Hurwitz and Carol Baroudi, have been commissioned by John Wiley & Sons Publishing to write “SOA for Dummies.” Bloor says he ...

Any company will face up-front costs associated with implementing SOA, but many IT experts say it can lower expenses in the long run. You can’t look at SOA in terms of short-term return on investment, ...

Confused about the myriad definitions of SOA? The first thing you need to know is that it's an architecture. But don't forget that there's more to architecture than a blueprint. Last week I posed the ...

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

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 realities of project deadlines, team skills, and tight budgets mean that building a Web services SOA (service-oriented architecture) is less about choosing a technology than it is about spotting ...

Recent discussions have brought attention to the important and evolving role of governance in the world of service-oriented architecture (SOA). "Modern conceptions of SOA governance," to borrow a ...

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There are plenty of challenges for journalists who specialize in corporate computing (like me) in an era when no-new-insight-added personality profiles are the kinds of stories that are trumpeted on ...