soa business services in comment and analysis
Is SOA testing tough enough?
Comment Among German organisations, 76 per cent are implementing an SOA that web-enables existing applications as well as new services-based functionality, while just 16 per cent have not yet started down the route to an SOA at all. [20 May 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. The introduction of the Payment Services Directive will... [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]
Virtualisation gets trendy
Comment Virtualisation is now involved in the most trendy fields in the industry including data centre automation, utility computing, green computing, security, business continuity, blades, grid and SOA. In application design, SOA can be thought of as... [15 May 2007]
Link up all parts of your business
Comment In a nutshell, SOA enables applications to create services that can be called by other applications. Web services offer many of the same advantages of SOA when integrating applications. SOA Essentially this is adding service-oriented architecture... [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). Thanks to those who gave their time to take part in this year's CIO Agenda survey, including... [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. And you'd be surprised how many techies can't get their head around SOA/web services. How about this: ride the SOA wave over the next 10 years or watch your... [29 Sep 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Gov't IT - get it right
Comment The advent of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) should be an absolute godsend for public sector IT, where the need to employ 'joined up' services across organisations mirrors the need to apply processes across different parts of the value chain... [01 Dec 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: We must simplify SOA
Comment To Quocirca's mind, SOA is relatively simple at a conceptual level - technical functionality (what a company can do with its IT applications) should be available as a set of callable services that directly facilitate business processes. [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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