Whether you're an SOA skeptic, cynic, or advocate, there's always confusion around many of the terms and definitions used within this space. As one reader wryly added to my last post on SOA's greatest ...

A couple of surveys I have run across seem to say the same thing -- everyone agrees that SOA can be a good thing, but few feel they can muster up the resources and political will to push the concept ...

Even its proponents don't agree on a single SOA vision yet, but it's coming to your shop eventually Since about 2003, service-oriented architecture (SOA) has been touted as the network-based, ...

In this article, we examine how security applies to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Before we discuss security for SOA, lets take a step back and examine what SOA is. SOA is an architectural ...

Lately I've noticed a lot of SOA envy as organizations begin to roll out their new, and typically first, SOA projects. I hear things like: "How many services you got in your SOA?" or "We employ 10 WS- ...

Cloud computing may have overtaken SOA as the trendy technology term du jour, but the two concepts can be paired to bolster service deployments, industry experts say. With cloud computing, enterprises ...

Jason Bloomberg, managing partner and senior analyst at ZapThink, and Dana Gardner, president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, detail the need for management when deploying SOA in a ...

Igor Khurgin and Saurabh Verma of Acumen Solutions on why your enterprise needs a SOA governance framework before lawlessness takes over Adopting services oriented architecture (SOA) in your ...

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Have you heard what a certain software company has been saying about next-generation IT development and deployment strategies? There’s this gem about service-oriented architecture: SOA “is not about a ...