When Honda introduced the Civic in America in 1972, industry experts declared Honda would never succeed because automobiles were too complex and required skills and technology beyond those of the mere motorcycle company. Fast forward to today when Honda's Civics and Accords are two of

A panel of experts and executives from organizations that are leading providers and consumers of technology will discuss trends and important technologies for enterprise and Internet computing. The experts will discuss the role of databases and database technology trends that enhance S

The new wave of Web applications are built on technologies such as AJAX and Microsoft Silverlight, which enable developers to build better, richer user experiences. These technologies bring a shift in how applications are organized, including a stronger separation of presentation from

'Data services apply the same philosophy of reuse and flexibility that SOA offers, but to the data tier,' explains John Goodson, executive leader of DataDirect Technologies, in this Exclusive Q&A in the run-up to the inuaugural DataServices World on June 24th in New York City, of which

Back in the 70s everybody knew that programming was not about writing code, but about the art of designing algoritms. Edsger (Edgar) Dijkstra used the term 'elegance' for correctly designed algoritms and everybody knew exactly what he meant. Every programmer and designer knew about Str

Lockheed Martin's Savi business launched SmartChain 5.0, a platform and application suite providing new capabilities that enhance the performance, business processes and efficiency of supply chains for commercial and government customers. Savi SmartChain 5.0 leverages Services Oriented

Martin Dawes Systems announced the launch of its Business Process Engine (BPE), a SOA-based solution for service providers who want to customize their customer service management systems. The latest addition to the Martin Dawes Systems product family, BPE is a fully customizable soluti

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 upgraded to a simple,

GT Software announced that its flagship GT Software Ivory Service Architect solution was utilized by SunTrust Bank for extending banking services to customers' cell phones. The new service uses GT Software's flagship solution, Ivory Service Architect, to connect front-end banking softw

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 software rapidly identif

The way business applications are evolving, enterprises are learning to accept and embrace the notion of applications that they neither control nor host. Now enterprises are leveraging applications that run a business through the Internet platform. As these applications become core to

Thetus and CommIT are expanding the boundaries of service-oriented architecture (SOA) through participation in aXiom, a U.S. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Charleston-led initiative to improve situational awareness. The aXiom project deploys applied semantics and ontological mo

Strangeloop Networks announced the WS1000 Web Services Accelerator, an appliance that accelerates enterprise applications in Service-O riented-Architecture (SOA) environments by caching web services. Deployed as an appliance that sits between web applications and the back-end servers, t

IBM announced that Cars.com has selected IBM software to drive a multi-year service oriented architecture (SOA) project that will help the online car shopping destination accelerate its business growth by delivering information on demand to car shoppers and advertisers.

Intel Corporation announced Intel SOA Expressway for Healthcare, software that provides a way to exchange healthcare information inside hospitals and with health information networks. The product will allow healthcare providers to connect with one another so that each can provide bette

WaveMaker announced the appointment of Roger Sippl to the Board of Directors. With over 30 years of experience in building and managing enterprise software companies, Sippl will help guide WaveMaker as it continues to expand its AJAX open source Web application development platform. Th

WSO2 announced the expansion of its management team to advance WSO2's product initiatives and services for the company's growing enterprise customer base. Paul Fremantle, WSO2 co-founder, has been promoted to CTO from his previous role as vice president of technical sales. Fremantle, w

MuleSource announced that TM Software has joined the MuleSource Partner Program. Touting a 20-year history of technology innovation, Iceland-based TM Software supports more than 1,200 customers worldwide. TM Software specializes in providing solutions for the healthcare, energy, retail

The ever-increasing movement towards implementing complex SOA-based applications has triggered a direct attention of leading industry researchers and practitioners to the subject of layering in such applications, in general, and the relationship between the fields of database engineeri

The continuing success of SOA World Conference & Expo, now in its 13th successive iteration - this time in June, on the East Coast, in the historic Roosevelt Hotel in New York City - has led SYS-CON Events to expand its reach by adding a co-located parallel event, DataServices World. T

'As SOA rapidly becomes the standard for enterprise architectures, the need for robust technologies for data access and data integration has become more critical then ever before,' says John Goodson, executive leader of DataDirect Technologies. Goodson will be keynoting the inaugural D

'Diligent's data de-duplication software is a critical technology that will be integrated into the IBM Storage portfolio,' said Andy Monshaw, general manager, IBM System Storage, as IBM today announced that it has acquired Diligent Technologies. Data de-duplication is an emerging techn

Microsoft unveiled Microsoft BizTalk RFID Mobile - a lightweight platform for a variety of mobile devices, which simplifies the development of mobile applications that expose relevant, real-time business information. BizTalk RFID Mobile enables delivery of relevant information from mob

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

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 semantics embedded in data

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 recouped and, in some cases,

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 changing market requirement

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 way to go - remain with

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 demands. Software AG's pro

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 management of loosely-c

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. While many of their

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 lightweight framework that can b

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-based middleware. A bet

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, databases, applications an

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 such developments. In ou

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 BPM and Web services

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

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 the commercial and use

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 virtualization' takes

Once upon a time, data modeling played a central role in the process of developing applications. Thus far in the SOA era, there has been a heavy emphasis on process, and data has all-too-often been lost in the SOA shuffle. In this talk, we present a data model for SOA - i.e., a service