I've just spent the last week immersed in user conferences and briefings, and at every juncture the question of web services and service architectures came up. And every time the issue moved from ...

Whether you're an SOA skeptic, cynic, or advocate, there's always confusion around many of the terms and definitions used within this space. As one reader wryly added to my last post on SOA's greatest ...

In a new survey SOA is clearly growing rapidly. "Enterprises are bullish on the concept of service-oriented architecture (SOA), and adoption is expected to double over the next two years, according to ...

With SOA right now, I think the big picture here is pretty clear about the notions of interfaces, the notion of true distributed computing, the notions of being able to say if Im interacting with you ...

As enterprises rush to assess how they can benefit from service-oriented architecture (SOA), many naturally but mistakenly focus on the technological aspects of the solution. As an architecture, it’s ...

CRM customers can't get through a product pitch or demo without hearing about services-oriented architecture, or SOA. Many companies' products are built on SOA, designed around SOA principles, or are ...

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

Cloud computing may have overtaken SOA as the trendy technology term du jour, but the two concepts can be paired to bolster service deployments, industry experts say. With cloud computing, enterprises ...

Even its proponents don't agree on a single SOA vision yet, but it's coming to your shop eventually Since about 2003, service-oriented architecture (SOA) has been touted as the network-based, ...

Igor Khurgin and Saurabh Verma of Acumen Solutions on why your enterprise needs a SOA governance framework before lawlessness takes over Adopting services oriented architecture (SOA) in your ...

Companies can save up to $53 billion in IT spending over the next five years by investing in service-oriented architecture, according to a new benchmark report from Aberdeen Group. Yet the research, ...