Processes don't get much more hands-on than the work carried out in a specialized branch of the clinical laboratory services industry known as anatomic pathology. In most AP labs, the procedures for processing the hundreds of bits of skin, gallbladder, breast lumps, and other tissue specimens that flow into the facilities every day are carried out by specially trained technologists. Each specimen must be described, sectioned, dehydrated, and embedded into small blocks of paraffin that are sliced for slides. As they are traditionally carried out, manually, these procedures are both time-consuming and vulnerable to human error.
A new version of Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI), the often forgotten XML standard for Web services, won approval from OASIS, the Boston-based standard consortium, according to an announcement today.
Organizations adopt coding standards to ensure the delivery of reliable applications. See how standards can help reduce time for reviews and correct violations automatically.
To keep pace with competitors in the annuities market, Transamerica Life Insurance Company had to find a way to leverage its legacy information systems as it forged ahead with plans to remain a key player in a faster, changing business environment that required more responsive technology.
BEA recently released a survey it conducted with 1,000 developers in Europe with 75 percent indicating they “are either developing, or expect to be developing, service-oriented architectures (SOA) this year.” However, results varied by country. Surveys of developers in London and Madrid found 30 percent and nearly 25 percent respectively were already doing SOA development. But Parisian coders are not so enthusiastic with only 10 percent responding that they are into SOA development.
Sunopsis has upgraded its ELT offering to cover a variety of ways for different
applications to communicate, from service oriented to batch data movement. If
you're trying to piece together a patchwork of applications, their integrated
solution could be an attractive way to go.
We're on the brink of the next major UI revolution, which will stoke the fire under SOA, says Jeff Tash. Plus, are you modeling all four pillars that define EA?
Oracle is adding some rocket fuel to its tools promotion strategy with a contest that promises to send one lucky developer into space--literally. Announced at the recent Oracle OpenWorld conference (but upstaged by the PeopleSoft acquisition drama), the Oracle Space Sweepstakes gives participants a chance to take part in a suborbital spaceflight, experience weightlessness, and view the earth from 62 miles up.
The job of technology architecture is to help people better organize, visualize, and communicate about technology.
Structure your IT organization to meet developing business environments.
Grand Central offers an easy way for you to get started on a service-oriented architecture without investing a ton of money.
Warnings abound about spaghetti code, especially in legacy COBOL programs, but Michael Herr, senior director of IT at Germany’s Deutsche Post, says watch out for "spaghetti infrastructure."
SOAs have arrived, but building and managing them is still a challenge for most organizations. That's a challenge IBM Global Services is taking on with a newly created practice aimed at helping enterprises migrate to service-oriented architectures. Unveiled this past week, Big Blue's new SOA Management Practice will seek to help customers with Web services management capabilities as they scale to enterprise-wide SOAs.
SOAs will help change how business and IT work together. It will take time, though. Meanwhile, here's what you want your CIO to know so that your company can move in the right direction.
Learn to build a robust, flexible, and secure Web services architecture that leverages the .NET Framework''s existing capabilities and handles security as a crosscutting concern.