The number of companies investing in service-oriented architecture (SOA) has doubled over the past year in every part of the world, with a typical annual spend of nearly $1.4 million, according to a ...

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an approach for abstracting enterprise software capabilities as reusable services in order to support more flexible business processes and ideally, more agile ...

Meanwhile, other vendors, including Microsoft and Sybase, are facilitating that architecture through multiple middleware products that allow a variety of existing applications to work independent of ...

If you consider the traditional quality assurance process — in which QA is a set of tasks that occur in a serial fashion after development — it becomes clear that many of the desired SOA ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is generating a lot of buzz these days. In fact, according to a new AberdeenGroup benchmark report, “Enterprise Service Bus and SOA Middleware,” nine of every 10 ...

Linthicum: SOA is the way to do cloud. I saw early on that SOA, if you get beyond the hype that's been around for the last two years, is really an architectural pattern that predates the SOA buzzword, ...

The future of software is service-oriented architecture, according to Charles Stack, president of Flashline. The enterprise application as we know it is dead. Zombie-like, it still lumbers along, ...

Among the ways to keep a service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiative on track, forming a center of excellence (COE) is a frequently named option. Indeed, a recent Forrester survey shows that having ...

In light of all the pushing to bring IT to closer to the business, Dana Gardner is proposing an experiment. That is, take an accountant -- or better yet, CFO -- to lunch, to see how much they ...

The IT industry is notorious for pushing the next big thing, and for several years now the primary object of its hype has been SOA, or “service-oriented architecture.” The idea behind this concept is ...