Ask an IT executive to define service-oriented architecture (SOA), and there’s a good chance you’ll get at least some kind of a reasonable answer. Ask that executive’s functional peers the same ...

Robin Bloor informs us that he, along with Hurwitz Group colleagues Judith Hurwitz and Carol Baroudi, have been commissioned by John Wiley & Sons Publishing to write “SOA for Dummies.” Bloor says he ...

Any company will face up-front costs associated with implementing SOA, but many IT experts say it can lower expenses in the long run. You can’t look at SOA in terms of short-term return on investment, ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) emerged in the early part of this century as an evolution of distributed computing. Before SOA, services were understood as the end result of the application ...

Recent discussions have brought attention to the important and evolving role of governance in the world of service-oriented architecture (SOA). "Modern conceptions of SOA governance," to borrow a ...

Implementing a services-oriented architecture (SOA) across an organization has much in common with the world of rocket science, said an executive with Software AG Inc. Implementing a services-oriented ...

There are plenty of challenges for journalists who specialize in corporate computing (like me) in an era when no-new-insight-added personality profiles are the kinds of stories that are trumpeted on ...