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 ...

IT professionals and business leaders with an interest in cloud services have probably heard the term 'microservices', quite possibly in discussions about service-oriented architecture (SOA). There ...

Expensive and dysfunctional integration stymies businesses that want to gain full value from generations of investment in application systems. By supporting a vision of end-to-end business processes, ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the foundation of a new platform consisting of loosely coupled software parts. And as anyone reading the computer industry press could attest, the SOA notion is ...

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 is a principle that allows businesses to manage their IT and business transformation in order to give themselves a competitive edge. It offers benefits including insight ...

In the age of cloud-native, service-oriented development approaches can seem to like old news. It's easy for developers and architects to assume that it died a long time ago and has been supplanted by ...

Service-oriented architecture or SOA is an architecture style, not a product or a project. It’s an improvement over past architectures in that it captures and uses the best practices of the ...

In light of all the pushing to bring IT to closer to the business, Dana Gardner is proposing an experiment. That is, take an accountant -- or better yet, CFO -- to lunch, to see how much they ...

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

Over on ZDNet Joe McKendrick asks Is Microsoft slow to the punch on SOA, or just waiting for the right moment? The answer is neither. Microsoft is clueless about SOA (service oriented architecture) ...