If you were the CIO or chief architect at a company and I told you that you are already running multiple Web services, how would you react? Pleasantly surprised? Shocked? Would you be upset? Many ...

SOA planning is committee work, and it often requires that IT architects meet to assess a steady stream of proposals for services to run on the corporate network. “In P&C, we have a high-level project ...

Rather than simply create a few services to be shared by applications, Wachovia Bank’s goal was vastly more ambitious: to transform its organization with a flexible new SOA infrastructure. Here’s the ...

What do enterprise architecture, virtualization, security, business intelligence, and organizational culture have in common with each other and with SOA? If you answered “very little to nothing at all ...

I've noticed that those charged with building enterprise SOAs are working on establishing approaches to the implementation of their SOA instance -- they are not yet looking for "key enabling SOA ...

Need help building your service-oriented architecture? Vendors stand ready with a slew of service options. Adopting a service-oriented architecture promises to transform rigid networks into flexible, ...

BP defines SOA as a transformational approach to the design, implementation, and management of business solutions and their supporting technical infrastructures. SOA is a method of delivering business ...