• A business-focused approach in SOA design, governance

  By Randy Heffner | 04 August, 2011 04:28

  If you listen to industry discussion of service-oriented architecture (SOA), you are likely to get the impression that SOA is best thought of as a technical approach for application integration. The reality is that SOA is much more.

• Forrester: SOA is alive and well

  By Chris Kanaracus | 24 March, 2011 05:15

  It's been a little hard of late to find references to SOA (service-oriented architecture), the buzz-phrase that once saturated the IT industry but in recent years has succumbed to "cloud computing." But SOA remains alive and relevant, according to a new Forrester Research report.

• Talend acquires SOA vendor Sopera

  By Chris Kanaracus | 11 November, 2010 06:59

  Open-source data integration vendor Talend is expanding its footprint into SOA (service-oriented architecture), announcing Wednesday that it has purchased Sopera, developer of an open-source ESB (enterprise service bus) and other technologies. Terms were not disclosed.

• SOA's not dead says Burton

  By Maxwell Cooter | 06 November, 2010 02:13

  SOA is set for a comeback according to analyst company, Burton. Nearly two years ago, it was a Burton analyst, Anne Thomas Manes, who proclaimed that SOA was dead but it appears that reports of its demise have been exaggerated.

• Complexity of IT systems will be our undoing

  By John Dix | 04 November, 2010 03:24

  Roger Sessions, CTO of ObjectWatch and an expert in software architecture, argues that the increasing complexity of our IT systems will be our undoing.  In fact, he just recently got a patent for a methodology that helps deal with complex IT systems. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with Sessions to get his take on the extent of the problem and possible solutions.

• Selling the new enterprise architecture - Part 3

  By David Braue | 22 June, 2011 07:00

  Despite its value, TOGAF can suffer from intrinsic shortcomings in the process by which EAs are selected and trained.

• Selling the new enterprise architecture - Part 2

  By David Braue | 21 June, 2011 10:09

  Despite years spent trying to encourage staff to think along business lines, many CIOs are still finding technology-focused EAs unable to think in business terms, and vice versa. Even though CIOs most certainly know better, Gartner figures suggest that just 9 per cent of enterprise architecture efforts will be built around business goals this year, with that figure growing to just 30 per cent by 2016.

• Selling the new enterprise architecture - Part 1

  By David Braue | 20 June, 2011 11:22

  A ‘service’, of course, is an abstraction of the underlying functions, systems and policies used to deliver business outcomes. Service-centred IT therefore reflects the need for clarity and commonality of vision between business executives, the CIO, and the enterprise architects (EAs) and other operational staff charged with actually delivering that vision.

• Cloud Computing: What CIOs Need to Know About Integration

  By Kim S. Nash | 18 May, 2010 06:56

  Cloud computing promises the ability to move applications and systems to the location and platform that makes the most sense--in terms of risk and economics--at any given time.

• Cloud Computing Poses Control Issues for IT

  By Kevin Fogarty | 18 May, 2010 04:42

  Though most U.S. companies still list customer and other corporate information as their most valuable assets, many keep pushing this data farther from safe lockdown in the data center--and are about to give it another strong shove in that direction.

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