Progress Software announced that the Farmers Alliance Mutual Insurance Company (FAMI) will deploy the Progress Sonic Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) in order to streamline its enterprise information technology (IT) infrastructure and integrate several discrete applic...

Fitch Ratings has selected and implemented LakeFrontData's Reference Data Factory (RDF) for its' Securities Reference Data Management platform. Fitch selected LakeFrontData's RDF for its' reference data management platform having already chosen a service oriented ...

Torry Harris Business Solutions has announced collaborations with universities in the U.S., Europe, and Canada, giving a new thrust to business R&D through collaborative research, business support, and consultancy. Specific areas of collaboration include service-o...

BPM is being used by many organizations to gain new levels of visibility and control into their critical business processes. By leveraging a SOA architecture approach when implementing BPM, these organizations can accelerate project success, enabling rapid gains...

Nastel is a recognized market leader in providing solutions for application performance monitoring and management. Nastel's solutions empower IT teams to consistently assure high performance and availability of business applications. Nastel's AutoPilot Suite of ...

SOA implementations are increasingly reliant on streams of data that are time-critical, reliably delivered and sourced from mixed infrastructures in a highly distributed environment. Data formats, delivery mechanisms, fault tolerance capabilities and stateful se...

While SOA can deliver dramatic cost reduction of an organization's business operations, it is a complex, multidisciplinary undertaking, and therefore introduces significant risk. This session presents a list of the most important risk factors and ways to mitigat...

Popular assumptions can often be dangerous. We will start by considering how the many unique architectural characteristics of SOA, such as loose-coupling, can actually be a two-edged sword affecting the requirements, nature and success of many important aspects of...

Exploring the boundaries between the Enterprise and the Internet, this talk focuses on Architectural approaches from the service pattern, process pattern and event pattern to help SOA practitioners understand topics such as Web 2.0, AJAX, SaaS, Social Networks and...

The success of SOA runs two ways. SOA serves as the catalyst for organizational change, yet an organization must be ready to embrace these new dimensions opened up by SOA. The latest survey data shows most organizations are just starting on their SOA journeys. Why...

Dramatic industry changes - including vendor consolidation, outsourcing and the growth of open source - highlight the need for a better way. When a SOA implementation costs too much, the culprit is often the old-fashioned, proprietary and expensive server or hub-b...

Software AG is an independent provider of Business Infrastructure Software. Their 4,000 global customers achieve measurable business results by modernizing and automating their IT systems and rapidly building new systems and processes to meet growing business dema...

Ranked by Gartner as a leader in the Application Infrastructure Software market, Fujitsu helps companies build SOA-enabled BPM applications that can be shared across the enterprise to lower operating costs, accelerate business processes, and react quickly to cha...

Web Age Solutions is a provider of technology mentoring and education to the Fortune 500. Their 'Preferred Vendor' status with the global leaders is a result of their highly progressive approach to knowledge transfer and relentless pursuit of customer satisfaction...

Managing Web Services in production is no easy task. Ensuring that services follow corporate security and SOA governance requirements, monitoring compliance with individual SLAs, preventing one client from degrading the performance of others and ensuring services ...

SOA is about people as much as technology. This talk will demonstrate how adding a layer of social (or 'Web 2.0') features - things like tags, comments and syndication feeds - to your SOA infrastructure can provide fertile ground to help grow a vibrant and connect...

We are entering an era of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and enhancing the user experience of consumers of the services becomes an important part in designing and implementing SOA. But if you decide to develop rich clients, you'll be facing the dilemma - which...

Open source has made significant inroads into middleware deployments in the enterprise. More and more, open source is being used to deliver the benefits of SOA and open source to the enterprise. There are many custom Enterprise Service Bus deployments waiting to be ...

Many organizations make the faulty assumption that SOA is a panacea that can, and should be, applied to every situation. The reality is that service orientation is not the right answer for every scenario. The expense of service orientation cannot always be recoupe...

JNetDirect provides software products for improving their customer's connectivity, integration, management and security to their data resources. Products include JDBC drivers, Business Intelligence, Database Management, Disaster Recovery/Backup solutions and Passw...

WSO2 is an open source middleware company founded by pioneers in Web services and of members of the Apache Software Foundation Web services community. WSO2 delivers a new, entirely open source middleware stack that is optimized for Web services and SOA and built o...

SOA is mostly associated with technologies such as BPEL, SCA and Web Services. But does SOA really imply these technologies? In this session we will show how you can use the service oriented approach while staying inside the Java world. jBPM is a powerful lightwei...

Development of service-oriented environments is an evolutionary process for organizations of all sizes. The architecture and design decisions made by system architects and developers will impact manageability and flexibility of service infrastructures. Efficient...

MQSoftware delivers business transaction assurance, business service monitoring, middleware management applications, and enterprise application integration products to help customers align IT operations and investments with their business applications. Working w...

Layer 7 Technologies is a provider of SOA security and governance infrastructure for next generation service oriented and Web oriented integrations. The SecureSpan family of XML appliances and gateway software addresses the security, performance management and o...

Adoption of federated identity technology has been slower than the hype might indicate, despite the maturity of standards such as SAML 2.0 and Web Services Security. This presentation examines the distinct business and technical identity management issues in both ...

Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) can deliver tremendous value in flexibility, adaptability and cost savings. But SOA environments are complex by definition, with lots of loosely coupled components and a potentially vast combination of platforms, software, da...

Service orientation is one of the most popular trends of these recent years, but there are not any metrics on it. Hence you can not consume SOA in a project with a specific measuring. On the other side, Unified Process (especially RUP) has powerful abilities on su...

It seems that Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) continues to be this year's hot buzzword, rather than a well-defined, meaningful and valuable part of the Enterprise Architecture landscape. Before the term fades away completely, perhaps we should agree what's v...

What is BPEL? What is XPDL? How are they different? What is the best use for each? What is BPMN, and why should I care? Which of these are primarily designed to help IT at a technical level, and which help an organization at a business level? Amongst the flurry of...

This session will investigate what is happening out there in the world of Mobility that uses Services, some are calling this MOA (Mobile Oriented Architecture). We will also discuss architectures, application design & considerations for mobility

The SOA Consortium announced that Hitachi has joined the SOA Consortium. They are the first Japan-based organization to join. The SOA Consortium is an advocacy group of end users, service providers and technology vendors committed to helping the Global 1000, major...

Layer 7 Technologies announced its go-to-market partnership with Steria Benelux. Steria will act as a channel partner for Layer 7's SOA gateway products in Belgium to offer leading SOA security, governance solutions and support to its current and prospective customers.

Managed Methods develops and sells versatile and cost-effective solutions products for monitoring Web services and managing service-oriented architectures. Their focus is providing practical tools that enable visibility and management of Web services operations in...

The SOA Consortium and CIO magazine have announced the expert panel of judges who will be reviewing entries to the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Case Study Contest. The contest is open to organizations of all sizes, including government agencies that have ...

IBM announced that it is collaborating with nine business partners to help healthcare providers, clinics and hospitals improve productivity, increase quality and reduce costs through the use of service oriented architecture (SOA). These partners are all working to...

Software AG announced that SaskTel has implemented the webMethods Suite to streamline the integration, management and optimization of core business processes. Serving more than 425,000 business and residential customers, SaskTel is a full service communications ...

IONA announced the latest release of Artix Data Services, an open and standards-based development tool for building model-driven data services, and a key component of IONA's Artix advanced SOA infrastructure suite. Artix Data Services shortens the data services ...

The success of SOA runs two ways. SOA serves as the catalyst for organizational change, yet an organization must be ready to embrace these new dimensions opened up by SOA. The latest survey data shows most organizations are just starting on their SOA journeys. Why...

Service orientation is one of the most popular trends of these recent years, but there are not any metrics on it. Hence you can not consume SOA in a project with a specific measuring. On the other side, Unified Process (especially RUP) has powerful abilities on su...