For success in deploying cloud services, look no further than what we've already done with service oriented architecture. For success in deploying cloud services, look no further than SOA I recently ...

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COMMENTARY--The organization able to correctly identify the winners and losers among evolving technologies will benefit from lower cost of operations, reduced complexity of the computing environment ...

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Service-oriented architecture (SOA) policy adds important business and technical flexibility and control to an SOA-based solution. At runtime, SOA policy provides ready access to change key operating ...

Legacyisn’t planned — it just happens. For many public-sector organizations, the challenges of operating with legacy systems are all too familiar. Legacy environments are expensive and time-consuming ...

With all the attention that service-oriented architecture and Web services are getting, I thought I’d fast forward to a time when every organization has implemented SOA and Web services to some extent ...

In the article “Taking the horror out of SOA,” Jon Collins and Massimo Pezzini talk about how the hype has hurt this architectural pattern. SOA has been overhyped, oversold and set up to fail. When we ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) emerged in the early part of this century as an evolution of distributed computing. Before SOA, services were understood as the end result of the application ...

Designing our applications as small independent units is the first step towards building a modern infrastructure that is nimble, agile and scalable. Legacy systems still form the backbone of many ...

The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. Instead of building monolithic applications for each department, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) organizes ...