Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)


BPM suite stacked on top of an SOA

Tibco Software says it has integrated its BPM suite with its business integration products, enabling its customers to layer BPM on top of an SOA.

Saving money with a service-oriented outlook

The world's largest companies can save up to $53 billion in IT spending over the next 5 years by implementing SOAs, according to a new report from AberdeenGroup.

Quest for service-level agreements in an SOA world

After the service-enablement message has been spread as far as it will go, what will become of service-level agreements?

OMG announces SOA, MDA and Web Services Workshop

The Object Management Group today announced the program for its Service Oriented Architecture, Model Driven Architecture and Web Services Workshop: Integrating the Enterprise and Beyond.

Oracle jumpstarts SOAs for ISVs

Complementing today's introduction of the Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle launched a series of hands-on workshops designed to provide independent software vendors with tools and skills to help their customers build, deploy and leverage SOAs.

Oracle unveils hot-pluggable SOA suite

Oracle today announced availability of the Oracle SOA Suite, a standards-based set of middleware products used to build, deploy and manage service-oriented architectures.

AberdeenGroup Forecast: CIOs can save billions through SOA

The world's largest companies can save up to $53 billion in IT spending over the next 5 years by implementing service-oriented architectures, according to a new benchmark report from AberdeenGroup.

Data storage remains outside the SOA circle

Storage remains the red-headed stepchild of SOA, often because storage is regarded only as a peripheral device connected to an application-hosting platform.

Flashline announces best practices for service-oriented architecture

SOA software provider Flashline is offering consulting services to help companies better govern SOA and manage Web services.

Service-oriented Architectures: Tool time for service-oriented architectures

"New tools for an emerging class of app developers, who will create the B-school policies that drive SOAs, promise to help orgs mediate services and monitor their networks."

BEA to rock on in service-oriented environments

BEA said on Tuesday that its JRockit Java Virtual Machine hit a SPECjbb2000 benchmark result of 861,647 operations per second, apparently a new record, according to the company.

Sonic Software delivers its idea of an enterprise service bus

Sonic Software on Monday introduced its technical definition of the enterprise service bus, a product it has been selling for some time. "Sonic ESB: An Architecture and Lifecycle Definition" examines the core capabilities and usage of an ESB, from development to production.

AmberPoint releases upgrade of its governance software

AmberPoint announced on Monday a new release of its SOA runtime governance software, AmberPoint 5.0, which the company says has new capabilities such as improved management control and an enhanced user interface.

Mindreef intros Web services lifecycle collab platform

Mindreef has released a Web services lifecycle collaboration platform for organizations building Web services and service-oriented architectures. Mindreef Coral, as the new platform is named, enables users, service teams and service consumers to collaborate and share information, regardless of role, skill set or development environment, the company says.

Staying Power!

COBOL is here to stay. It’s become UNICODE—compliant, object oriented and XML friendly. It participates in MDA,calls Web services natively and wraps itself in Java. Some mainframe shops are even deploying COBOL apps on Linux.