By SOA World Magazine News Desk  From CEP and Composable Services to Real-Time SOA Systems and SOA For Parallel Computing, this is a round-up of the many themes and topic of interest to architects, developers and managers featuring at the 14th International SOA World Conference & Expo being held November 19-21, 2008 a... Aug. 29, 2008 09:45 AM Reads: 637 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk  Technology's highest paid CEO currently is also America's highest paid CEO, namely Larry Ellison of Oracle - who with a fiscal 2008 pay package of $84.6M is the top earner at any of the Standard & Poor's 500 companies. Noting that annual pay totals are "based on salary, bonuses, incent... Aug. 28, 2008 07:35 AM Reads: 579 Replies: 1 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Melding a stable enterprise architecture with the right level of technical and organization transparency involves two different perspectives. An architect can lay a SOA foundation that enables development teams to build new functionality leveraging Web Services. However, without a libr... Aug. 27, 2008 05:00 PM Reads: 461 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk In a recent study, CIOs ranked "improving business processes" as their #1 priority for 2008. But the big question has always been - How does one get started with a BPM initiative? The traditional approach has been to engage external consultants and to dedicate significant time and reso... Aug. 27, 2008 04:45 PM Reads: 321 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk In this webcast you will see some examples of leveraging JBoss product suite in Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture implementations. You will examine real-life case studies to clearly understand the full lifecycle of an Enterprise SOA, as well as what it takes to have the “Pract... Aug. 27, 2008 04:20 PM Reads: 286 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk "Data services apply the same philosophy of reuse and flexibility that SOA offers, but to the data tier," explains John Goodson, executive leader of DataDirect Technologies, in this Exclusive Q&A in the run-up to the inuaugural DataServices World on June 24th in New York City, of which... Aug. 27, 2008 12:30 PM Reads: 516 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Chordiant and IBM announced an extended partnership to deliver Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based solutions to help global brands with high-volumes of customer interactions better meet consumer needs and improve customer relationships. Aug. 26, 2008 12:02 PM Reads: 339 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk OpenSpan announced record revenue for the sixth consecutive quarter. In addition, the company announced that revenues in the first half of 2008 exceeded those for all of 2007 and were fueled by several million dollar-plus deals that progressed from successful proof-of-concept and pilot... Aug. 26, 2008 11:23 AM Reads: 258 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Eloqua announced the Eloqua Web Services Application Programming Interface (API), a Web Services API for marketing automation. This release further extends the flexibility, functionality and ease-of-use of Eloqua’s demand generation applications. Using the Eloqua Web Services API, or... Aug. 26, 2008 11:13 AM Reads: 300 Replies: 1 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Active Endpoints announced that ActiveVOS is the orchestration software selected to develop and maintain the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Next Generation Identification (NGI) System. The NGI System is a multi-modal, state-of–the-art biometrics system for use by state, lo... Aug. 26, 2008 09:39 AM Reads: 267 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk CA announced that its CA Wily Technology division has surpassed 1,000 customers. Since being acquired by CA in March 2006, the application performance management (APM) solution provider has nearly doubled its customer base, adding more than 500 new customers and completing over 900 new... Aug. 25, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 265 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Corporate investments in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) governance are expected to rise sharply across the Asia-Pacific region, particularly among organizations with one or more SOA project deployments, according to the latest report from Springboard Research, an innovator in the ... Aug. 23, 2008 11:30 PM Reads: 342 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Avineon has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II contract by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA). Under the contract, which is a continuation of its Phase I work, Avineon will continue transforming NAVSEA's existi... Aug. 20, 2008 03:30 PM Reads: 491 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Colosa announced that its flagship solution, ProcessMaker, is one of the first applications to achieve certification through the Intel Certified Solutions Program and will be available on the Intel Business Exchange. The Intel Business Exchange is an online marketplace for small and me... Aug. 20, 2008 11:15 AM Reads: 412 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk IBM has introduced new versions of two software products, part of its growing InfoSphere portfolio, that deliver information on demand to the people, processes and applications that rely on it. The new products help customers create and manage trusted information from across their ente... Aug. 19, 2008 11:30 PM Reads: 566 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk The SOA Consortium announced the availability of a podcast and slide deck of the presentation by K. Scott Morrison, VP of Engineering and Chief Architect at Layer 7 Technologies, on "How to Fail at SOA," recorded at the SOA Consortium meeting in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in June. Callin... Aug. 19, 2008 10:30 PM Reads: 447 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a software architecture where functionality is grouped around business processes and packaged as interoperable services. SOA also describes IT infrastructure which allows different applications to exchange data with one another as they participat... Aug. 19, 2008 09:30 PM Reads: 695 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk AMB has been chosen by North Shore Credit Union as their data quality provider to cleanse their old system data as part of their data governance program. The tight integration with ETL tools and the availability of integrated SOA components and tools usable by their stakeholders was a ... Aug. 19, 2008 01:00 PM Reads: 379 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Active Endpoints announced that Toyota Motor Europe has deployed a sales education application that uses ActiveVOS for user provisioning and access to an education application. The new services-based application utilizes ActiveVOS capabilities including rapid development and deploymen... Aug. 19, 2008 09:30 AM Reads: 374 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Progress Software announced that McCamish Systems has deployed the Progress Sonic ESB platform to create a service oriented architecture (SOA) that will help them provide integrated services to their BPO clients. As a result of the ESB, McCamish can reduce the complexity of integration... Aug. 18, 2008 09:30 PM Reads: 511 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Conformia announced it has integrated its solution into the IBM platform to provide an end-to-end solution for drug development to the pharmaceutical industry. The solution incorporates service oriented architecture (SOA) capabilities that have been validated by IBM. Conformia's SOA ap... Aug. 18, 2008 09:15 PM Reads: 509 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk IBM announced that Vantage Deluxe World Travel has increased sales and improved business operations since turning to IBM to run its Web site and online booking system. Since switching to IBM WebSphere Commerce software, Vantage Travel has reduced order-taking time by 80 percent and inc... Aug. 18, 2008 08:30 PM Reads: 487 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Communication Intelligence Corporation, a supplier of electronic signature solutions for business process automation in the financial industry and biometric signature verification, announced that it has formed an alliance with CSC, an information technology services company. Under the ... Aug. 15, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 530 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk IBM announced that Vantage Deluxe World Travel, a travel provider for active, mature American travelers, has increased sales and improved business operations since turning to IBM to run its Web site and online booking system. Since switching to IBM WebSphere Commerce software, Vantage ... Aug. 15, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 447 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Software AG, a global provider of business infrastructure software, expanded the webMethods Application Modernization Suite with the introduction of the Discovery Edition. Based on Software AG's global reseller agreement with Relativity Technologies, the Discovery Edition can be used t... Aug. 14, 2008 04:30 PM Reads: 512 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk iTKO LISA, the provider of testing, validation and virtualization solutions for SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) and enterprise software, and dynaTrace software, the provider of lifecycle application performance management for complex SOA-based systems, announce a combined solution ... Aug. 14, 2008 04:00 PM Reads: 400 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk By making AAPT troubleshooting procedures available externally, AAPT reduces the complexity of providing service, improves customer satisfaction and reduces the internal resources required to support resellers and partners. Aug. 13, 2008 10:45 AM Reads: 557 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Micro Focus announced that Tech Systems has successfully implemented Micro Focus Server for SOA. Micro Focus will enable Tech Systems to transform its IntegraSoft order and distribution management solution into a Web-based, more user-friendly application. As a result, customers will be... Aug. 13, 2008 10:15 AM Reads: 520 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk SOA World Magazine announced today that the polls are now open for the SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards, which recognize excellence in the software, solutions, or services provided by the industry's top vendors. Readers will be casting their votes until November 8, 2008. Winne... Aug. 7, 2008 06:45 PM Reads: 812 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Ecologic Analytics announced that the new AMI interface (i.e. gateway) for Silver Spring Networks’ latest version of Utility IQ has received deployment certification from the Ecologic Integration Lab. Designed to support large deployments, this new multi-threaded gateway enables the ... Jul. 31, 2008 11:00 PM Reads: 534 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Sonoa Systems announced that Sterling Infosystems has selected its ServiceNet solution to more effectively operate Sterling's SOA infrastructure and ensure enterprise-class security, manageability and performance of these customer-facing Web services. Jul. 31, 2008 11:00 PM Reads: 1,009 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk AgilePath announced a series of new SOA Playbook Acceleration Solutions. AgilePath's SOA Acceleration Solutions are a suite of integrated offerings that include targeted SOA training, SOA workshops, and SOA XPE 'sprints' focused on delivering rapid results for key SOA focus areas, all ... Jul. 30, 2008 04:00 PM Reads: 764 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Fortify Software unveiled a technique for identifying the security implications of using common Web Services and service-oriented architecture (SOA) frameworks. Fortify conducted a thorough study of the security of 5 popular frameworks, and found critical security concerns with how the... Jul. 30, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 485 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Today, SOA is a mainstream IT initiative that ranks among the top priorities of CIOs. SOA dramatically improves the flexibility and adaptability of organizations by accelerating the time to market for new applications and processes. This paper summarizes the business benefits of adopti... Jul. 28, 2008 04:15 PM Reads: 1,058 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Few other innovations in IT offer the transformative potential of SOA. SOA is centered around a transformation of your enterprise IT architecture into a set of services that can be shared and reused across application development initiatives. The successful deployment of services requi... Jul. 28, 2008 04:00 PM Reads: 1,079 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk SOA brings challenges for every part of the IT organization, and the IT quality organization is no exception. SOA requires quality management across all types of testing--functional, performance, security and compliance. IT quality managers can develop a successful SOA quality program ... Jul. 28, 2008 03:30 PM Reads: 1,014 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Managing SOA services is usually done by a specific project team initially. However, in the long run, SOA must be managed in production by IT operations to take advantage of trusted operational processes. This paper describes an approach to SOA management that integrates SOA into the f... Jul. 28, 2008 02:45 PM Reads: 669 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk IBM announced they have signed an agreement regarding a proposed acquisition by IBM of ILOG to be implemented by way of concurrent cash public tender offers in both France and the United States. Through this proposed transaction, IBM will combine its business process management (BPM), ... Jul. 28, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 620 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk The technologies used by IT to create SOAs are maturing. They are found to be robust and reliable. SOA governance provides a framework for making and applying the decisions that determine how the SOA will be designed, developed and operated. Work with real enterprises deploying SOAs to... Jul. 28, 2008 02:15 PM Reads: 680 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Managed Methods has announced the addition of Synovus Financial to its customer list. Synovus is a financial services holding company with more than $33 billion in assets based in Columbus, Georgia. Synovus provides commercial and retail banking, as well as investment services, to cust... Jul. 28, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 573 |