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Dear silicon.com... iPlayer vs ISPs, rip off outsourcing, social networking…

Comment I personally think that areas such as SOA, SaaS and modularisation will mean we start to view managed service arrangements in completely different ways very soon. This week readers are getting riled up by 'rip off' government outsourcing deals...

Tags: isp, bbc, government, outsourcing

[10 Apr 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...

Tags: cio agenda, tech, agenda, list

[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...

Tags: sepa, banking, payments, financial services

[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...

Tags: saas, software, open source, pricing

[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...

Tags: esure, mark foulsham, graham yellowley, financial services

[19 Jun 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...

Tags: grid, soa, virtualisation

[15 May 2007]

Editor's Blog: We've moved

Comment If you're interested in the way we work with IT, the technical/non-technical balance, offshoring, or booming tech areas such as mobility or SOA, please take the five minutes we need to build an even better picture.

Tags: it workers, internet, skills survey

[11 Apr 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.

Tags: norwich union, halifax, nationwide, e-crime

[27 Mar 2007]

Link up all parts of your business

Comment SOA In a nutshell, SOA enables applications to create services that can be called by other applications. Essentially this is adding service-oriented architecture (SOA) functionality to your existing applications.

Tags: erp, data integration, web services, soa

[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...

Tags: cio agenda

[17 Jan 2007]

Editor's Blog: Nicholas Carr and Trevor Baylis

Comment Sure, they now rely on 'me too' tech approaches such as software as a service, SOA and even outsourcing but they have their areas where they give their organisation an edge or do something no one else can replicate.

Tags: it productivity, nicholas carr

[22 Nov 2006]

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...

Tags: agassi, sap, mysap, soa

[29 Sep 2006]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: SOA - huh?

Comment SOA is perhaps today's least-understood acronym. The good news is that even with such a low level of understanding, SOA is making some real inroads. Just under 25 per cent of respondents in the Quocirca research stated that all new functionality is...

Tags: soa

[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...

Tags: henning kagermann, sap

[18 Apr 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...

Tags: public sector it

[01 Dec 2005]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: We must simplify <strong>SOA</strong>

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. Microsoft's SOA story is a key part of its future strategy, both in how it will approach the...

Tags: utility computing, grid computing, soa, ibm

[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.

Tags: object-oriented, soa, algol-60, martin brampton

[16 Sep 2003]

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