Cape Clear Software said on Monday that it will host a series of SOA Architects Forums--free, interactive workshops to provide practical guidance for service-oriented architecture implementations.
According to a new Aberdeen Group research report, "Service-Oriented Architecture in the Supply Chain: What Supply Chain Managers Need to Know," companies are adopting SOA to solve their most pressing technology issues.
As a customer's overall experience becomes the biggest driver of profit growth, corporate technology departments increasingly look to service-oriented architecture technologies to make the entire organization flexible and market-centric, according to the results of a survey of almost 150 participants attending the recent Siebel Customer World conference.
Service-oriented architecture and enterprise service buses will affect app dev and integration over the next 5 years, according to Roy Schulte, a Gartner analyst, at this week’s Gartner Symposium ITxpo in Orlando, Fla.
The SOA Leaders Council, a community of SOA end users, announced the findings of a survey it conducted at SOA Leaders Council meetings in June and July of 2005.
Service-oriented architecture is helping companies expand the capabilities of their supply chain, according to a report released by the Aberdeen Group.
On Monday, Software AG cut the ribbon to its new North American SOA Competency Center, which it says will help orgs understand how SOAs, within their environment, implement SOA and measure results. The company says it assists businesses reduce the time and cost of implementing SOA.
Just in case you weren’t paying attention: webMethods released on Monday the results of a survey that reveals SOAs and Web services are catching on with global 2000 companies.
Forum Systems recently introduced its Unified Policy Management application, which creates, manages, deploys and governs service-oriented architecture security policies and Web services.
The popular open-source Java business rules engine known as Drools will soon become part of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware System, says Pierre Fricke, JBoss's director of product management.
Oracle recently introduced new software that it says will help organizations integrate and interact with information extracted from enterprise business applications and pull it into service-oriented architecture-based enterprise portals.
Flashline recently introduced a new platform that it says manages and governs the entire chain of relationships—from corporate objectives to business services, applications, Web services and components.
IBM Global Services recently brought two new partners into its SOA Management Practice and added to its governance and Web services management capabilities.
SOA enthusiasts have been trumpeting a coming generation of composite applications—applications that are composed of multiple, independent, plug-and-play services.
AAA Carolinas has about 900 employees across North and South Carolina, serving 1.5 million residents. For years, the company processed all of its customer information through an AS/400-based insurance policy system, manually pushing “a lot of paper” through AAA Carolinas, says Harry Johns, the company’s manager of insurance information technologies.