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.
Oracle president Charles Phillips kicked off the annual Oracle OpenWorld conference, under way this week in San Francisco, with a keynote focused on the convergence of the company's three lines of business—database systems, middleware and applications—which are combined in the company's implementation of a service-oriented architecture called Oracle Fusion Architecture.
Large-scale service-enablement is a doomed enterprise for one important reason, some codejockeys argue: bureaucratic infighting.
Peter O'Kelly summarizes the daunting amount of Windows Vista information presented at PDC 2005 last week. Find out what''s changing between Longhorn and Vista, what aspects of Vista are being ported and more.
Sonic Software, AmberPoint, BearingPoint and Systinet this week introduced a model intended to guide businesses that are evaluating service-oriented architecture.
Microsoft is poised to make major strides in its collaboration portfolio with SharePoint V3, Office 12, and other offerings. Here''s a review and analysis of the collaboration-related updates from PDC 2005.
Kareem Yusuf, director of SOA product management with Big Blue, says he understands why developers, more than any other enterprise constituency, are skeptical about SOAs, composite applications and loosely coupled application architectures as a whole. It’s a healthy skepticism, he concedes.
IBM this week announced new and enhanced software to help enterprises respond to their ever-changing processes through service-oriented architecture.
To get the broader benefits of service-oriented architecture—reuse, agility and runtime governance—companies need to design their SOAs deliberately.
Red Oak Software today introduced an Eclipse-based version of its Legacy Composer to help developers integrate legacy applications across enterprises and eventually integrate these apps into service-oriented architectures.
The result of the partnership between LogicLibrary and TopCoder reached earlier this year is that TopCoder’s components for Java and .NET are now stored in Logidex, LogicLibrary's collaborative SDA management solution.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is promoting an Enterprise Open Standards policy that advocates using open-source office applications while at the same time it sets guides for moving to a service-oriented architecture.
Your management system must ensure that the business processes running and exposed as services in the SOA live up to expectations. Paul Lipton shows you the way to effective SOA management.
If you’re one of the many IT pros who are still trying to figure out the business value of service-oriented architecture and what you need to do to build one, take a look at “Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design,” by Thomas Erl.