soa architecture in comment and analysis
Quocirca's Straight Talking: A game of two halves
Comment Then, there was an analyst event held alongside TechEd, where Microsoft's approach to service-orientated architecture (SOA) was discussed - which left me cold. The messages about Microsoft's first forays into SOA were a little muddled but at least... [30 Jun 2008]
Is SOA testing tough enough?
Comment Service-oriented architecture (SOA) represents a huge shift in the way we approach computing. Yet in the UK just 34 per cent of organisations have implemented a full SOA, including legacy applications, while 50 per cent have still to implement an SOA. [20 May 2008]
The CIO shopping list
Comment Despite the hype, service oriented architecture (SOA) (20 per cent) and business intelligence (20 per cent) remain low down the tech shopping priorities. CIO Agenda respondent Steve Williams, head of ICT for Sunderland City Council, said: "I... [26 Mar 2008]
European payment issues will top 2008 agenda
Comment As a result, service-oriented architecture (SOA) technology is taking over from monolithic legacy systems that have been a burden on the industry and inhibited a bank's ability to change. But Gareth Lodge argues that it is the changes in Europe... [20 Dec 2007]
The Brampton Factor: Software costs under pressure
Comment SOA looks very much like the old established notion of software components linked with the even older adage that there are no products, only services. Factors such as business process outsourcing (BPO), software as a service (SaaS), service... [22 Nov 2007]
Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities
Comment In terms of technology investment this translates into a more flexible and agile service-oriented architecture (SOA). Foulsham said: "Our roadmap is very much an SOA roadmap. Financial services has traditionally been, and still very much is, the... [19 Jun 2007]
Editor's Blog: Banking on a hard time over security
Comment What's SOA? This week Peter Birley from law firm Browne Jacobson takes on everything from extreme weather threats to how IT departments get the rest of the organisation to understand SOA - even if there isn't a consensus in IT first. [27 Mar 2007]
Link up all parts of your business
Comment Essentially this is adding service-oriented architecture (SOA) functionality to your existing applications. SOA In a nutshell, SOA enables applications to create services that can be called by other applications. [14 Mar 2007]
Leader: The CIO Agenda for 2007
Leader New tech priorities this year include IT infrastructure library for better project management and governance and service-oriented architecture (SOA). The year ahead promises to be another challenging one for CIOs and IT directors who are tasked as... [17 Jan 2007]
Editor's Blog: So, er, what's the big idea?
Comment You sometimes see people's eyes glaze over after the mention of SOA or web services. How about this: ride the SOA wave over the next 10 years or watch your business or organisation fail. And you'd be surprised how many techies can't get their head... [29 Sep 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: SOA - huh?
Comment These enterprise applications can be included within the SOA as peers, using specific technologies to decompose the monolithic architectures to provide discrete functions as callable routines that can be utilised by any other part of the... [22 Sep 2006]
Q&A: SAP CEO Henning Kagermann
Comment Some talked about the lure of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and XML and keeping their investment in SAP but any future investments will be done with point solutions. I would expect that the customer will try to check and test the... [18 Apr 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: We must simplify SOA
Comment Vendors have yet to learn how to communicate the value of a service-oriented architecture, or SOA, to business types, says Quocirca's Clive Longbottom. For the single, underpinning software framework to support the utility vision, the market has... [23 Jul 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Software never changes
Comment We are now told that service oriented architecture (SOA) is an important new way to develop software. One thing SOA is about is segmenting programs into units. SOA is couched in terms that are highly reminiscent of objects. [16 Sep 2003]
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