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...

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...

While everyone wants to do SOA right the first time, the typical results are not always stellar. Indeed, the pitfalls of building any complex architecture, including SOA, are something that the SOA practitioners must contend with, and most are ill-equipped. Howeve...

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...

SOA is mostly associated to 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 lightweigh...

Open source has made signficant 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...

SOA Software announced that it was profitable for FY2007 facilitated by a 113% growth in product business. SOA Software announced a net income of $2.2 million for FY2007. SOA Software is a leader in the emerging Integrated SOA Governance market. The company's perf...

ILOG announced that Groupe Mutuel chose ILOG JRules, a key offering in ILOG's Business Rule Management System (BRMS) product line, to automate its claims management processes. ILOG JRules will be used as a core component of Groupe Mutuel's new service-oriented architecture (SOA).

SOA Software announced 30 new consulting partners, expanding the program to a total of 40 partners. The growth of SOA Software's program is attributed to an industry wide recognition of SOA Software's leadership position by the system integrator community. Recen...

In an effort to further expand its global TEM services and provide access to important financial and IT related information, TnT Expense Management launched a new Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) that will enable clients to access inventory, spend and rate inf...

Epicor Software unveiled Epicor Internet Component Environment (ICE) 2.0. Epicor ICE 2.0 is the Company's next-generation service-oriented architecture (SOA) for building business applications, and will exploit the capabilities of Microsoft Windows Server 2008, SQ...

VeNotion said it expects to earn $5m from the three-year contract. Its Business ServiceWare software consists of an automated business services and related IT assets modeler, which organizes IT and SOA services by business context. It said the technology improves ...

The European Commission (EC), the executive arm of the European Union, today imposed a fine of $1.35 billion on Microsoft for defying sanctions imposed on it by the EC for antitrust violations, making Microsoft the first company in 50 years of EU competition polic...

'While the subprime credit crisis, the weakened housing sector and the relentless stream of negative economic reports in the media would lead one to expect a softening in demand, we have not yet seen it. Outside of a handful of sectors, demand for IT professionals...

Rogue Wave Software introduced RogueWave HydraExpress. HydraExpress provides a framework for developing and hosting high performance C++ Web Services to help developers modernize existing C++ applications. HydraExpress is the next generation of Rogue Wave LEIF...

VeNotion Technologies announced that Software AG and VeNotion Technologies signed an agreement to integrate Software AG's SOA technology with VeNotion's SOA Business ServiceWare. VeNotion provides a Business ServiceWare software solution which consists of an aut...

Layer 7 Technologies announced the availability of its SecureSpan Mainframe SOA Gateway. The appliance is used to expose mission-critical mainframe applications, business logic and data as a composite business service without costly coding or porting efforts. Th...

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...

OASIS president and CEO Patrick Gannon suddenly and precipitously up and resigned last Wednesday after six years on the job and nobody will say why - which suggests, as all conspiracy theorists know, that there must be something interesting under all that silence. ...

IBM captured 34.2% revenue share in the fourth quarter of 2007, and 31.1% revenue share for the full year of 2007. The report by Gartner Dataquest, 'Servers Quarterly Statistics Worldwide,' for Q4, 2007, found that IBM was also the fastest growing UNIX vendor in ...

Citect announced the release of version 3.2 of its Manufacturing Execution System (MES), Ampla; a scalable MES solution that drives the effective planning, operation and improvement of production operations. Ampla V3.2 provides new features to support Service Orie...

Oracle holds the gold standard for database technology and applications in enterprises throughout the world: The company is the world's leading supplier of software for information management, and the world's second largest independent software company. Oracle t...

Progress Software has upgraded its SOA-based semantic integrator for communications service providers. Progress said DataXtend Semantic Integrator 8.3 will enable service providers to synchronize distributed data with change data capture (CDC) functionality to d...

SOA Software announced that it has certified the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform as a Governed Service Platform. Certified Governed Service Platform status means that customers can be confident that their platforms won't compromise the fidelity of the governance sys...

SeeWhy Software announced an expansion of its relationship with JBoss through tighter integration of SeeWhy with the JBoss service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform. In addition, SeeWhy has become a JBoss Advanced Partner. Following demand from the JBoss comm...

TIBCO announced the general availability of TIBCO ActiveMatrix 2.0 featuring expanded capabilities for integration, composite application development and governance under a single platform to better manage heterogeneous service oriented architectures (SOAs). Thi...

Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- 'The Network is the Computer' -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership.

Depending on your perspective, SOA and virtualization are either synergistic or threaten increased complexity. This session will explain how implementing the right network architecture can make the most of both, promoting agility and reducing complexity. 'Service ...

Alcatel-Lucent announced a product integration that brings together the HP SOA Systinet governance software with Alcatel-Lucent's OmniAccess 8550 Web Services Gateway. The solution provides the ability for enterprises to ensure that information access policy des...

'By increasing the openness of our products, we will provide developers additional opportunity to innovate and deliver value for customers,' said Ray Ozzie, Microsoft chief software architect, as Microsoft this morning announced the implementation of four new in...

Progress Software announced the availability of Progress DataXtend Semantic Integrator (SI) 8.3. This release enables Communication Service Providers to more effectively synchronize their disparate and distributed data with new change data capture (CDC) function...

PushToTest announced the results of a research paper, entitled 'The Composition Approach for Large-Scale SOA,' which analyzes approaches to service oriented architecture (SOA) and evaluates SOA development and deployment solutions from leading vendors, including O...

TIBCO Software announced that a study conducted by PushToTest, the open-source test automation company, identified TIBCO ActiveMatrix as the most productive platform for implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA). The study, entitled 'The Composition App...

GT Software announced a distribution agreement for the company's mainframe data access product with Treehouse Software. Under the licensing agreement, Treehouse will now offer industry leading mainframe data integration capabilities, globally for users of IBM ma...

Symphoniq announced the release of TrueView for SOA (service oriented architecture). Designed to manage distributed environments by monitoring from the browser through every backend application server and service, TrueView for SOA offers the first truly end-to-e...

Epicor Software announced that its board of directors has named software and technology industry leader Thomas Kelly as the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer. The appointment is the result of Epicor's on-going succession planning process and is effec...

ILOG announced ILOG Rules for COBOL , a new add-on module for ILOG JRules , a key offering in ILOG's business rule management system (BRMS) product line, that helps organizations with significant IBM mainframe investments simplify their legacy modernization effort...