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whitepaper SOA structures IT assets as a series of reusable services, which are loosely coupled and are platform- and implementation-neutral. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a framework that combines individual business functions and processes, called...
[15 May 2008]
whitepaper To an IT architect, SOA is an architectural style and paradigm that enables the creation of modular and loosely coupled services that can be composed and choreographed together to create business processes that represent the running enterprise.
[15 May 2008]
whitepaper With Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), a business can be visualized as a collection of loosely coupled reusable building blocks, called business services. A business service, which can be derived from freestanding components, derived from...
[15 May 2008]
whitepaper As the IT industry matures, one will witness the emergence of more and more successful designs and implementations of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). To address this, the following patterns have arisen in the context of projects involving...
[14 May 2008]
whitepaper The nature of SOA's loosely-coupled connections and use of open access have the potential to leave data unprotected, especially during multi-step transactions. As organizations move to adopt SOA, they face a new set of requirements in their...
[22 Apr 2008]
whitepaper As the idea of implementing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) gains traction, enterprises are finding themselves with an increasingly large portfolio of services. It provides a much-needed intermediary layer that facilitates data delivery...
[19 Mar 2008]
whitepaper However, SOA is predicated on an ability to integrate, just-in-time, loosely-coupled services, one application to another. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a new integration framework that enables organizations to map IT processes to changing...
[11 Mar 2008]
whitepaper The trend is undeniable--after years of struggling to rationalize and integrate myriad disparate applications, Global 2000 enterprises are overwhelmingly headed toward adopting Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)--a software architecture that...
[16 Dec 2007]
whitepaper The advantages of implementing SOA are clear but in order to successfully adopt SOA, several factors should be considered. Before deciding on a SOA platform, companies should clearly define their business and IT objectives to ensure the proposed...
[16 Dec 2007]
whitepaper This ZapThink white paper is a must read if you're looking to migrate to an enterprise-wide service-oriented architecture (SOA). Analyst Jason Bloomberg examines the challenges associated with SOA management and explains:
[12 Dec 2007]
whitepaper This ZapThink white paper is a must read if you're looking to migrate to an enterprise-wide service-oriented architecture (SOA). Analyst Jason Bloomberg examines the challenges associated with SOA management and explains:
[12 Dec 2007]
whitepaper As most SOA enthusiasts will tell, the "A" in Service Oriented Architecture is still missing in action (and some prefer the term "Service Orientation" for this reason). Service orientation has given a good set of principles (such as loosely coupled...
[14 Aug 2007]
whitepaper As most SOA enthusiasts will tell, the "A" in Service Oriented Architecture is still missing in action (and some prefer the term "Service Orientation" for this reason). Service orientation has given a good set of principles (such as loosely coupled...
[14 Aug 2007]
whitepaper Today, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) allows a more "loosely coupled" approach to application design and with the introduction of web services has become a popular way of providing the level of agility that facilitates the process of...
[02 Aug 2007]
whitepaper While they have the potential to reap the benefits of an SOA infrastructure, they also introduce the risk of unauthorized access to the business assets. Web services are designed to expose business functionality in an interoperable and loosely...
[10 Jul 2007]
whitepaper More and more businesses are looking to the principles of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to align their business and I.T.needs. The ability to build services modeled on business functions, reuse and orchestration of common, loosely coupled...
[11 May 2007]
whitepaper Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) replaces these silos with loosely-coupled services, enabling information to flow as needed, and delivering enterprise agility. It describes the first phase of their SOA implementation, with services that are hard...
[04 Apr 2007]
whitepaper Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a system architecture in which a collection of loosely coupled services communicate with each other using standard interfaces and message-exchanging protocols. As an emerging technology in software development...
[29 Mar 2007]
whitepaper SOA essentially implies an application architecture made up of loosely coupled "Services" (for example the various software features that are used in creating and processing a customer order), and service "Consumers" (other services that need to...
[29 Mar 2007]
whitepaper This framework is called the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). The rapid adoption of J2EE standards, Java, XML and Web service technologies has resulted in many enterprises adopting a much more loosely-coupled architectural framework in which to...
[29 Mar 2007]
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