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Open source: 'World's largest software company'

News Rosenberg told silicon.com sister site, CNET News.com: "IBM is threatened by open-source SOA [service-oriented architecture] tools as many of them meet the full requirements enterprises look for. Open source software is successfully displacing...

Tags: software, ibm, open source

[22 Apr 2008]

UK businesses testing the water with SOA

News Almost half of UK businesses are looking at implementing service oriented architecture (SOA) technology as they develop their IT infrastructure. Nearly half (47 per cent) of the 180 organisations questioned are actively focused on creating SOA...

Tags: interoperability, soa, uk, implementation

[20 Mar 2008]

Oracle and Accenture in SOA love-in

News Oracle and Accenture have teamed up to open an innovation centre in the UK for the development of service oriented architecture (SOA) technology. Work at the innovation centre, based at Oracle's UK headquarters in Reading, will focus on...

Tags: soa, oracle, accenture, innovation

[14 Jan 2008]

Software licensing costs set to fall

News Software licensing costs are set to fall over the next decade as IT industry trends converge to give buyers more bargaining power. Analyst Gartner predicts vendors will find themselves increasingly challenged as IT departments look to reduce...

Tags: software licensing, bpo, saas, gartner

[16 Nov 2007]

Serena launches business mash-up exchange

News Given the right tools and the opportunity to build in a SOA environment, business developers can build business mash-ups that can be deployed to a data centre behind the security of a firewall. Serena Software has kicked off its Chicago developer...

Tags: web 2.0, mash-up

[11 Sep 2007]

Eight roles the CIO must play

News EDS said IT must be "a business enabler, not a business impediment", warning that SOA efforts are being resisted by traditional IT staff and is misunderstood by business staff. If you thought CIO stood just for 'chief information officer' you might...

Tags: skills, cio

[28 Aug 2007]

Skills Survey 2007: Staffing crisis deepens

News For the fifth year running, programming languages such as Java, C variants, HTML and XML are in shortest supply in the workplace, followed by web services, SOA skills such as J2EE and .NET, and then IT management skills (around systems, storage...

Tags: business skills, it skills, skills survey 2007

[07 Aug 2007]

HP does SOA much more

News HP has stepped up its commitment to the emerging area of service-oriented architecture (SOA), announcing consulting and software that draw heavily on its acquisition of Mercury Interactive. At a press conference, the company outlined its strategy...

Tags: mercury, soa, hp

[22 May 2007]

The Tote bets on SOA much more

News UK betting organisation the Tote is adopting a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to improve customer service, and develop new products faster and more cheaply. Historically, each of those betting channels has developed its own systems, which...

Tags: progress software, soa, tote

[03 May 2007]

SOA is a goer, say Indian tech chiefs

News And many companies believe the key to this has something to do with the IT industry's latest hot concepts, service-oriented architecture (SOA). And it's not just the Indian services companies that are homing in on this - the big multinationals are...

Tags: india, soa

[04 Apr 2007]

CIO Essentials: The top five stories of the week

News SOA? When I saw this, I thought that getting the business involved was great but then we in IT are still struggling trying to define what [SOA] actually is and how we can apply it - or if it is overkill and we would be better off with a web...

Tags: browne jacobson, peter birley, cio essentials

[27 Mar 2007]

SOA? Get the business involved, say IT chiefs

News Getting the business to understand the need for service-oriented architecture (SOA) projects is key to the success of any such initiative, according to industry experts. Speaking at an IDC conference on SOA in London this week, IT executives from...

Tags: soa, vanco

[23 Mar 2007]

Police give Holmes a sleuthing upgrade

News A service-orientated architecture (SOA) modularised framework has also been developed to improve the reusability and flexibility of the system for future updates. Police forces across the UK can make better searches of each other's databases after...

Tags: database, tracking, police, police forces

[16 Mar 2007]

SOA good for consultants

News As more companies adopt SOA, their requirements will become increasingly complex - meaning they will require extra help to manage significant organisational changes, according to analyst house IDC. This is because implementing SOA is not just about...

Tags: change management, soa, idc

[17 Jan 2007]

Microsoft poaches IBM software guru

News At IBM Ferguson was instrumental in developing web 2.0, SOA (service-oriented architecture) and web services software, and co-authored many of the initial web services specifications. Microsoft has poached IBM's chief architect as part of a...

Tags: donald ferguson, microsoft, web 2.0, soa

[17 Jan 2007]

CIO Agenda: The 2007 tech shopping list

News Another new entry on the 2007 shopping list is service-oriented architecture (SOA), although the CIOs said SOA was the most over-hyped technology of 2006. Other over-hyped technologies last year included web 2.0 and Microsoft's new Windows Vista...

Tags: cio agenda

[15 Jan 2007]

SOA raises security worries

News Service-orientated architecture (SOA) technologies could open up a security-based can of worms as they begin to move beyond the walls of individual businesses, according to one analyst house. The analyst house warned there is concern SOA might open...

Tags: security, soa

[09 Jan 2007]

European boom for tech service firms

News Traditional markets of consulting and software implementation were the other key areas of growth with service-oriented architecture (SOA) and CRM playing a major part. In 2007, Chlons expects SOA to become increasingly important - along with...

Tags: outsourcing, soa, europe

[09 Jan 2007]

'SOA... what?' say City chiefs

News Few City bosses have heard of the tech industry's latest three-letter acronym, SOA (service-oriented architecture). Just one in 10 City department chiefs has heard of SOA, lagging well behind their German counterparts - 32 per cent of whom are in...

Tags: soa

[08 Jan 2007]

Businesses reluctant to ditch ageing legacy systems

News Instead a third (34 per cent) of the IT directors said they are looking at using service-oriented architecture (SOA) and 29 per cent will use legacy modernisation to improve their infrastructure. Tim Holyoake, senior consultant at Software AG...

Tags: software ag, legacy systems, legacy

[05 Jan 2007]

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