A Suitable Test Bed for SOA

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:30:00 EDT

You are equipped with a technical understanding of Web Services. You are a strong believer in the power of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Now you're eager to bring SOA to your enterprise. You want to get maximum benefit from SOA, so you propose to service-enable the key functions of your company's enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) applications and automate cross-application processes like order-to-cash.

SOA in Action Case Study: LibGo Travel

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:30:00 EDT

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.

Articles by Markus Zirn

A Suitable Test Bed for SOA

SOA in Action Case Study: LibGo Travel