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Service-oriented architecture (SOA) emerged in the early part of this century as an evolution of distributed computing. Before SOA, services were understood as the end result of the application ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) allows applications from different vendors to interoperate and to be modified to conform to changing technologies. SOA-based tools will help commercial and civilian ...

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an approach for abstracting enterprise software capabilities as reusable services in order to support more flexible business processes and ideally, more agile ...

The post of the break was one by Joe McKendrick, who says, “SOA is integration. SOA is not integration. Simple as that.” In essence, he looks at some of the confusion around the value that SOA brings ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) policy adds important business and technical flexibility and control to an SOA-based solution. At runtime, SOA policy provides ready access to change key operating ...

Note: This is an update on a timeless and timely message originally posted here in July 2009. No SOA, no cloud. For success in deploying cloud services, look no further than SOA. That's the messsage ...

A software developers' work in complex enterprise application environments usually involves spending many hours maintaining existing applications, time that could be spent building new and innovative ...

The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. Instead of building monolithic applications for each department, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) organizes ...

The broadcast industry has a great need for agility and efficiency in dealing with new technologies and business models. Distributing content to HDTVs, mobile phones and software-based media ...