Rhonda Hocker started work as chief information officer of billion-dollar software maker BEA Systems three years ago with a rather dim view of high-priced applications packages. Her former employer, a ...

Service-oriented architecture, neither fad nor cure-all, can offer huge business value in at least one unlikely place: your legacy assets. IT fads come and go, so-called paradigm shifts take place ...

You have to hand it to some organizations, they are indeed thinking proactively around SOA. Case is point is the "Government of Canada Service Oriented Architecture Strategy - Statement of Direction." ...

Is your organization thinking about services and service provider models differently than in the past? If not, perhaps it should be. With all the buzz about Web services and services-oriented ...

BEA Systems and IBM have both added to their SOA (service-oriented architecture) offerings. For its part, BEA last week offered a free Web-based tool to quantitatively measure a company’s “baseline” ...

The term service-oriented architecture (SOA) hadn’t gained currency in 2002 when TrueCredit, a subsidiary of the TransUnion credit verification agency, began deployment of an enterprisewide portal.

Taking an organization through a service oriented architecture implementation is an evolving process which needs the right approach to succeed. These six critical steps will put you on a sound footing ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) can demolish the status quo. Decades of siloed system design have left most government organizations with antique, rickety systems that don’t play well with others.

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 ...