The post of the break was one by Joe McKendrick, who says, “SOA is integration. SOA is not integration. Simple as that.” In essence, he looks at some of the confusion around the value that SOA brings ...

Bringing services-oriented architectures (SOAs) to life is a lot like delivering a baby — it requires a copious nurturing, understanding, labor and ultimately … pushing. So far, the job openings for ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) policy adds important business and technical flexibility and control to an SOA-based solution. At runtime, SOA policy provides ready access to change key operating ...

I did not make it out for the Enterprise Architect Practitioners conference in San Diego last week, but I wish I did. From this article and reports from a few of my friends at the conference, looks ...

Service-oriented architecture or SOA is an architecture style, not a product or a project. It’s an improvement over past architectures in that it captures and uses the best practices of the ...

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 ...

How mature is service-oriented architecture? In asking that question, it’s important to make the distinction between the best-of-breed approach, where one picks and chooses various components within ...

Every solid SOA-based infrastructure needs good data, and good data can come from service oriented architecture. In a new post, Rob Barry makes the case for bringing together the like-minded ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) allows applications from different vendors to interoperate and to be modified to conform to changing technologies. SOA-based tools will help commercial and civilian ...

Travis McPeak explores the forefront of simple and effective preventative security strategies. Domain-Driven Cloud (DDC) is an approach for creating your organization’s cloud architecture based on ...

1. They fail to explain SOA’s business value. One of the most common mistakes IT people make is that they approach SOA purely from a technology perspective. They spent a great deal of time and effort ...