"SOA Possible Even Without Service-Enabled Apps." This is a statement that goes against the conventional wisdom, so, being a fan of things that go against conventional wisdom, I checked out this Q&A ...

"All this money is going into ESBs and Web services, and they get a dozen or two integration projects going, but are they getting any business value out of that? I don't see it." -Anne Thomas Manes, ...

The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. Instead of building monolithic applications for each department, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) organizes ...

The Internal Revenue Service is looking for ways to modernize its online customer service without first going through costly back-end upgrades. A service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach is ...

SOA planning is committee work, and it often requires that IT architects meet to assess a steady stream of proposals for services to run on the corporate network. “In P&C, we have a high-level project ...

Service oriented computing is a paradigm that underpins modern distributed systems by encapsulating discrete, self‐contained units of functionality—known as services—which interact over standard ...

An interesting phenomenon is becoming apparent in the service-oriented architecture products space, and it is related to the growing gap between longtime vendors such as Tibco and Oracle and newer ...

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