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.
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.
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.
Forum Systems recently introduced its Unified Policy Management application, which creates, manages, deploys and governs service-oriented architecture security policies and Web services.
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.
IBM Global Services recently brought two new partners into its SOA Management Practice and added to its governance and Web services management capabilities.
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.
SOA enthusiasts have been trumpeting a coming generation of composite applications—applications that are composed of multiple, independent, plug-and-play services.
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.
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.
Sonic Software, AmberPoint, BearingPoint and Systinet this week introduced a model intended to guide businesses that are evaluating service-oriented architecture.
Large-scale service-enablement is a doomed enterprise for one important reason, some codejockeys argue: bureaucratic infighting.
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.