Enterprise Architecture News & How-To


SOA is not the goal

Your goal shouldn’t be to build an SOA, but to better the business in some way. Gartner analysts spell out where to begin the process.

IBM offers free PHP-SOA integration kit

IBM wants to make it easier for PHP developers to integrate their apps into a service-oriented architecture (SOA), and it's giving them the tools to do it—free. The soon-to-be-released PHP Integration Kit for WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Community Edition is designed to move PHP into the heart of IBM's core SOA infrastructure.

Best Practices for IT Migration Projects

Eight best practices to keep the user experience front and center during IT migration projects.

Records Managers Are Suddenly Sexy

Data management should stand on its own as an umbrella effort driving all of IT’s efforts, because the essential task of IT is data management.

New ESB Federation integrates multiple platforms

SOA Software’s ESB Federation solution, launched this week, enables unrelated ESB platforms to deploy centrally-defined policies and interoperate in a reliable, secure and high-performing messaging environment, according to the company.

SOA: Where do we go from here?

Service-oriented architecture has made great strides since its inception, but still has a way to go before its benefits can be fully realized. Experts at Gartner’s Application Integration & Web Services Summit 2006, which began Monday, discuss SOA’s stumbling blocks.

An Architecture for Your Mid-Size Apps

Learn how you can architect a structurally sound system that will grow over time and accommodate changing requirements.

Plug In RBAC Security for Enterprises

Reduce maintenance costs from security logic that is interwoven with application logic. Apply a simple design that lets you plug in a role-based access control component.

Case Study: HIPAA Concerns Push Network Security Solutions

A federal regulation forced a medical center to lock down privacy, which coincidentally increased savings.

IBM and Microsoft Crank up the Pressure on Rivals

IBM and Microsoft made significant data management-related announcements last week

How Vista’s Arrival Will Affect the Security Market

Vista’s arrival will shake up the $3.6 billion Windows security market. Here are the implications for IT managers.

SOA Software and Parasoft deliver integrated test and governance

SOA Software and Parasoft are partnering to offer an integrated governance and testing suite for service-oriented architectures that will allow end users to combine Web services management and error refactoring for SOA and Web service-based apps.

Canadian city trumps biz world with SOA

Service-oriented architectures are expected to have a stronghold over future apps but those implementing the integration process today continue to encounter uncertainties from the corporate world.

Testing in Application Lifecycle Management

Understand the five phases of the application lifecycle, and learn which tests to perform in each of them.

Managing Enterprise Governance: When the Enterprise Outgrows the Span of Control

Discover how EA and governance give managers the necessary tools for streamlining user services and creating platforms that deliver faster and cheaper services.