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Note: This is an update on a timeless and timely message originally posted here in July 2009. No SOA, no cloud. For success in deploying cloud services, look no further than SOA. That's the messsage ...

The future of software is service-oriented architecture, according to Charles Stack, president of Flashline. The enterprise application as we know it is dead. Zombie-like, it still lumbers along, ...

Service-oriented data transmission operates on an “on-demand” basis—a sender only transmits data when at least one receiver in the network needs this data, avoiding unnecessary data loading on the ...

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 ...

Personnel need education, defined goals to make loosely coupled Web services a benefit to government. Service-oriented architecture has been a major buzzword throughout the U.S. Defense Department for ...

Editor’s Note: Angela Rouelle is CIO of the Vermont Agency of Human Services. Dave McCurley is global managing director of Accenture Software, Health and Public Service. Tony Dicuffa is ...

Service oriented computing is a paradigm that underpins modern distributed systems by encapsulating discrete, self‐contained units of functionality—known as services—which interact over standard ...

I recently read through a large collection of analyst reports on service-oriented architecture (SOA) that have been published in the past year. I was pleasantly surprised at the amount of agreement ...