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.
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.