Service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiatives promise to cause management challenges for IT managers looking to ensure application performance and exceptional IT service delivery. Network World ...

Due to global networks, heterogeneous information systems, and the need for agility, conventional architectures have evolved. The tasks of building entirely new applications, making specific adaptors ...

Services oriented architectures (SOAs) are not only forcing a new way of looking at how to construct applications and composite services -- SOA is now changing the meaning of what custom applications ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) will be used in more than 50 percent of new mission-critical operational applications and business processes designed in 2007 and in more than 80 percent by 2010, ...

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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, ...

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Perhaps if a savvy political operative were designing the best go-to-market campaign for SOA they would proclaim: "It's the applications, stupid!" Focusing on the applications -- and not the means to ...

Systinet Corp. today announced its second-generation service-oriented architecture (SOA) application suite, which is designed to provide governance and application life-cycle management for Web ...

Listen to the Computerworld TechCast: Introduction to SOA. Given the buzz about service-oriented architecture today, let’s make a few important points: The SOA concept isn’t new, it’s not a technology ...

Organizations are adopting service-oriented architecture to ease the integration of applications, map business processes to software IT structures and establish interoperability among diverse systems.