I thought cloud computing would do away with acronym-laden technologies such as service-oriented architecture (SOA). Can’t you just sign up for applications run in a public cloud? You can, but what ...

Implementing a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in your business comes with plenty of benefits. Lower costs, faster computing, and the ability to develop mission-critical applications on a shorter ...

Three issues that rise to the top fast when developing a service-oriented architecture are governance, quality, and management. In this article, part of a Network World Data Center series on SOA, ...

is the shape of distributed computing in the Internet Age. At the heart, SOA is a set of practical approaches for designing shareable, reusable services. It lets enterprise IT groups treat a ...

SOA has a critical role to play in the development of Master Data Management, or MDM. At Pfizer, SOA decoupled data from applications I hadn't heard much to date on how these two enterprise-changing ...

In theory, services-oriented architecture (SOA) is no more complex than its name. The Open Group defines SOA simply as "an architectural style that supports service orientation"--a way by which you ...

Many organizations' efforts to move to SOA have been mired by organizational issues, by conflicting vendor messages, and by architectures that may amount to little more than Just a Bunch of Web ...

Actional was acquired by Progress Software in 2006 to complement Progress SOA products. Actional focuses primarily on governance and validation to detect and report problems so customers can find the ...