Before there was cloud computing, there was service oriented architecture (SOA). While cloud encompasses implementation and application delivery options, SOA is concerned with the foundation ...

Is your organization thinking about services and service provider models differently than in the past? If not, perhaps it should be. With all the buzz about Web services and services-oriented ...

BEA Systems and IBM have both added to their SOA (service-oriented architecture) offerings. For its part, BEA last week offered a free Web-based tool to quantitatively measure a company’s “baseline” ...

Experts say the time has come for SOA design approaches, which revamp business processes and could change the economics of delivering software. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech ...

Diving into Service Oriented Architecture? Vordel's Mark O'Neill covers basic SOA security threats and defenses--and explains how security helps increase SOA's business benefits. Mark O’Neill is CTO ...

A hint--it does not describe the new headquarters building for the International Red Cross. Rather, it is either the newest empty IT buzzword or the most important innovation in corporate computing ...

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 ...

Note: This is an update on a timeless and timely message originally posted here in July 2009. No SOA, no cloud. For success in deploying cloud services, look no further than SOA. That's the messsage ...

Windows Communication Foundation has steadily evolved to better support SOA and Web services. Here's how to get the most out of your WCF-based services architecture. If you want to exploit ...

The benefits of SOA are well documented, but the challenges associated with an enterprise wide SOA deployment are not. While the distributed nature of a SOA encourages reuse and provides a high level ...

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 ...

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