I recently had the pleasure of watching Nick Gall give his take on something he describes as Web-Oriented Architecture or WOA. There are a lot of ways to view Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and ...

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." ...

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 ...

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 ...

Internet transactions, business-to-business systems, peer-to-peer processes, and real-time workflows are too dynamic and too complex to be modeled by traditional sequential-processing methods.

Experts say the time has come for SOA design approaches, which revamp business processes and could change the economics of delivering software. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech ...

A software developers' work in complex enterprise application environments usually involves spending many hours maintaining existing applications, time that could be spent building new and innovative ...

The benefits of SOA are well documented, but the challenges associated with an enterprise wide SOA deployment are not. While the distributed nature of a SOA encourages reuse and provides a high level ...

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

See more TechXchange Talks videos. Automotive service-oriented architecture (SOA) is designed to provide a framework for developers to create a modular, automotive software more quickly by using ...

Designing our applications as small independent units is the first step towards building a modern infrastructure that is nimble, agile and scalable. Legacy systems still form the backbone of many ...