In an effort to help enterprises comply with government regulations and join the service-oriented architecture drive, Hewlett-Packard introduced new software to its OpenView line, targeting these areas.
Sprucing up legacy apps with a new look and feel using SOA or Web services, rather than replacing them, can provide value for years to come.
A Quick Start Guide for Architecting Course Grained Services
The watchword of Sun Microsystems' new specialized service-oriented architecture practice is pragmatism.
Architects could learn a few things from the U.S. federal government, which has had success with its use of EA.
Technology and organizational changes are coming in every area of IT, and they are going to have a profound impact on virtually all of the 11 million IT professionals around the world—and eventually, everyone, everywhere.
Infravio has released a white paper with guideless for building what it describes as an “intentional SOA.” The papers describes architectural requirements and standards for building out an SOA, including SOA design-time and runtime components.
A core reference model to guide the creation of specific SOAs is in the works, thanks to a new committee by international standards consortium OASIS. Driven by a need for continuity across the industry, the SOA Reference Model (SOA-RM) Technical Committee will strive to deliver a normative SOA reference model by the end of the year.
IBM and Lawson Software announced yesterday that Lawson will optimize and standardize its business apps portfolio on IBM WebSphere--a move intended to help clients move to a J2EE compliant SOA and mitigate application complexity by reducing the source coding required. Apps and Web services will share the same data repository as clients' existing Lawson applications, enabling clients to perform only an upgrade, not a migration or new implementation, to take advantage of them, Lawson says.
Computer-industry shifts seem to happen whenever there''s a significant change to the user interface.
IBM today added three arrows to its Emerging Technology Toolkit (ETTK) quiver in the form of new software aimed at developers using emerging XML standards—such as XHTML, XForms and VoiceXML—to build Web applications that tie into service-oriented architectures (SOAs).
SOA Software said today its SOA Software's Service Manager is now integrated with Oracle BPEL Process Manager and related products. SOA Software Service Manager enables enterprise to secure, monitor and manage XML and Web services applications and components across distributed enterprises and extranets.
Rotech Healthcare, a provider of home respiratory care and durable medical equipment, has deployed an SOA to automate order management and enable near-real-time visibility of patient information across disparate systems. Rotech used Sonic Software’s Sonic ESB, Sonic Orchestration Server and Sonic XML Server to build the SOA.
SAP's entrance into the business process outsourcing (BPO) market marks a major turning point in the outsourcing industry, according to market researcher Yankee Group. SAP's ERP model of the 1990s is finally transforming to adapt to the growth in outsourced services, with human resources at its center. Yankee Group says the HR BPO market is growing wildly and forecasts revenues will grow to $14 billion by 2009, up from $4.6 billion this year.