http://soa.sys-con.com/ Latest articles from Armughan Rafat en Copyright 2008 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:00:53 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss 10 http://soa.sys-con.com/node/136219 LibGo Travel, one of the largest privately held travel companies in the U.S., provides vacation packages through its retail stores and wholesale distribution channels to consumers, partners, travel agents, and stores. The company wanted to expand its offerings by adding dynamic, branded, and personalized packages. To help execute this idea, LibGo had to bring together our travel partners, including airlines, hotels, and travel aggregators, as well as LibGo Travel's existing heterogeneous systems environment. As a result, LibGo's Next-Generation Travel System (NGTS) is among the most sophisticated booking systems that are currently being implemented. Instead of building one-off interfaces for each partner - a time-consuming, expensive, and brittle solution -- LibGo adopted a modern SOA with shared business services and Web services: data interchange would be XML-based, and WSDL would be the single interface definition standard.<p><a href="http://soa.sys-con.com/node/136219" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:30:00 EDT http://soa.sys-con.com/node/136219