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 mitigate them BEFORE it is too

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 the architecture, esp

If you read this column and listen to my podcasts, you know that I call SOA what SOA is - an architectural pattern. In many instances, SOA is a vital component of healthy enterprise architecture. Indeed, I've provided some keynote talks around this very topic at about half-a-dozen ente

HP's acquisition of EDS for $13.9BN - announced today - will, the company claims, double sales in its services business (already $16.6BN in fiscal 2007), but that didn't stop HP shares tumbling today on the New York Stock Exchange. The price of $25 a share represents a 32.5% premium to

IBM announced two new advances in the insurance industry - a solution for improving operational efficiency and a framework for process acceleration - that are designed to help insurance providers lower costs and increase customer satisfaction by handling core processes, such as claims

SOA Software announced that it has acquired LogicLibrary, a SOA Repository and Governance vendor. This acquisition combines two recognized companies, creating a dominant SOA Governance company with an impressive customer base. SOA Software is positioned by Gartner in the leader's quad

HP has introduced enhanced quality and management software designed to meet new requirements for mainstream deployment of service-oriented architectures (SOA) by businesses. To make sure that services meet all functional and performance objectives and are ready for production deploymen

ParAccel announced it has entered into an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with IBM. Under the terms of the agreement, ParAccel will embed IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture within the ParAccel Analytic Database, providing ParAccel customers with seamless and real-time u

Fiorano Software announced that Premiere Global Services, a global provider of on-demand business process improvement solutions chose FioranoMQ to enhances its e-mail marketing product lines with higher response rates, instant consumer actions and direct results tracking.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of 'Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) Infrastructure Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2008 to 2014' to their offering. According to the report, IBM is the de-facto industry standard market leader in SOA. IBM dominates SOA with

'When we speak of enterprise mash-ups, composite applications and software as a service (SaaS), it's easy to forget that you actually need infrastructure behind the user experience to make it happen,' says Gordon Van Huizen in this exclusive Q&A. SOA middleware is among the fastest gro

Aras announced the availability of Version 9 of the Aras Innovator suite of model-based service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions for enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Version 9 delivers model-based SOA for PLM and includes single-instance multi-language capabilities a

Skyway Software, announced a SOA developer contest. The SOA design and delivery solutions provider announced the contest with a prize of a $2500 gas card for the winner. The company feels that the basics are very easy. The winner would also get a copy of the Skyway SOA Platform - Devel

Micro Focus announced the availability of SOA Express 8.0. The new version adds support for direct deployment into IBM's Customer Information Control System (CICS), enabling users to accelerate the deployment of Web services by reusing their existing CICS TS mainframe infrastructure in

Building on its November 2007 preview, Oracle previewed additional planned feature enhancements of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g. Based on feedback resulting from close cooperation with customers testing in real-world environments, the latest preview of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g incl

Brian Stevens, the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering of Red Hat, delivered his Virtualization Keynote 'The Future of the Virtual Enterprise' at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo 2007 West in San Francisco. 'Virtualization is the hottest subject today,

Forum Systems announced the availability of FS Sentry 7.1, the SOA Gateway product. FS Sentry 7.1 enables rapid integration within a SOA without compromising security. FS Sentry 7.1 provides SOA professionals the ability to virtualize and centralize disparate service endpoints. Service

It seems like not a day goes by lately in which some new story of malfeasance in office doesn't come out - whether it's lying under oath, using the services of a call girl, or spying on other officials in the government in order to further a personal agenda. Clearly, our elected offici

There is uniform agreement that SOA holds great promise as a strategy for improving business agility, better aligning IT and the business, and increasing overall IT efficiency. Developing an SOA strategy has become a key issue for most large enterprises: CTOs in a 2007 McKinsey survey

Parasoft announced they will be featuring the next generation of application security solutions at JavaOne. Improving security without impacting productivity, Parasoft's Application Security Solutions establish a continuous process that helps ensure security verification and remediatio

'Developers need to realize that Automated Defect Prevention benefits them,' says Parasoft co-founder & CEO Dr Adam Kolawa in this Exclusive Q&A with Java Developer's Journal. 'But they won't start recognizing this until they see that they have less work,' Kolawa continues. The key to

From Application Virtualization to Xen, a round-up of the virtualization themes & topics being discussed in NYC June 23-24, 2008 by the world-class speaker faculty at the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held by SYS-CON Events in The Roosevelt Hotel, in midtown

Red Hat is a trusted open source provider. Red Hat offers enterprise customers a long-term plan for building infrastructures on the quality and innovation of open source. Combining open source operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management

EDS announced the signing of a comprehensive agreement with Microsoft around EDS airline reservations, flight operations and service oriented architecture products. With the announcement, EDS will use selected Microsoft tools, software and resources in the modernization and operations

TIBCO announced it is demonstrating how the combination of SCA and the TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Grid provides a highly scalable Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) combination for enterprise developers looking to reap the benefits of both models. Using SCA helps in part by laying a c

Rogue Wave announced that Patrick Leonard, Vice President, Engineering and Product Strategy, will be a panel member at the 2008 JavaOne Conference. The panel session, 'Open Standards for SOA and Java,' will take place on Wednesday, May 7 at 4:10 PM. The discussion will address question

VeNotion has been included as a 'Cool Vendor' in the April 2008 'Cool Vendors in emerging technologies, 2008' report by Gartner, authored by Martin Reynolds. According to the report, 'For SOA governance to become more successful, companies will need automated discovery and registry man

SAP Public Services announced that Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) has selected SAP's flagship enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP ERP. M-DCPS joins an increasing number of school systems investing in modern information technology to better manage their operation

SAP announced growing market adoption for the company's new support services offering, SAP Enterprise Support. SAP Enterprise Support meets the evolving needs of customers by supporting a company's mission-critical business processes and heterogeneous software environment. The ongoing

SAP announced plans for the release of SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management and SAP NetWeaver Business Rules Management. The addition of these planned capabilities will further establish SAP NetWeaver as the strategic platform of choice for customers that execute a service-oriente

GT Software announced that Lockheed Martin has selected the company's Ivory solution to create z/OS-based Web services, and migrate mainframe data to the company's next generation of applications. A global provider of rapid service oriented architecture (SOA) development solutions that

Paybox announced the release of the fourth generation of its Mobiliser Platform providing a state-of-the-art Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as well as a Service Development Platform (SDP) for true dynamic real-time integration and rapid application development of mobile Commerce,

Layer 7 Technologies announced it has been selected as a 'Cool Vendor' in Gartner's Cool Vendors in SOA Governance, 2008 report. Layer 7 provides flexible and simple-to-use gateways for defining, managing and scalability enforcing policy-based governance policies in SOA.

As I've been stating for the past five years: if you want to provide real value to your enterprise, SOA should extend out of the firewall and into the Internet. However, this was not universally accepted by the rank-and-file SOA guys. Generally speaking, most viewed SOA as something th

Composite applications are made up of discreet services that have been tried and proven reliable, but building an orchestration that incorporates services that come from several sources, some of them outside of the company, could introduce testing hazards beyond just bad output. For ex

Infosys and SAP announced that Infosys has signed up to the SAP Global Service Partner Program in order to strengthen its capabilities to deliver enhanced value to customers. This announcement marks an important milestone in the relationship between the two organizations, which have be

Locus has been selected by the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners to perform environmental site assessment, soil and groundwater investigation and cleanup, environmental compliance assessment and environmental information management services for The Port of Los Angeles. The agre

Trubiquity (formerly Autoweb) has launched its new software-as-a-service (SaaS) architecture. Trubiquity's new software architecture, named TRUcore, improves communications among global business teams, from an OEM (original equipment manufacturer) level down through a company's global

Not all services are created equal. It would be great if implementing SOA were simply a matter of applying a standard design pattern to all services. Once IT had identified and codified an optimal design standard, services could be stamped out in assembly-line fashion until the IT land

Software AG announced that the Raiffeisen Banking Group and the UNIQA Insurance Group have implemented webMethods BPMS from Software AG to support their corporate growth strategies. The companies have sought to grow their partnership to capitalize on the expansion of the European Union