'What drew us to Bebo was its substantial and fast-growing worldwide user-base, its vision of a truly social web and the monetization opportunities,' said AOL chairman and CEO Randy Falco yesterday as he announced the acquisition by AOL of the social networking site Bebo.com for $850M

Undoubtedly, as the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) continues to emerge as a hallmark of service-oriented architecture (SOA), the competition between open source and proprietary products will continue to heat up. Granted, ESB is a well-established category of infrastructure software. Ente

Systems that pass data to each other share commonly understood semantics. Explicit data semantics is the key to success in an EDA (and any other messaging system). In striving for loose coupling, data semantics is the ultimate level; when systems are decoupled at the semantic level - e

Highdeal announced that Mobile Satellite Ventures has chosen the Highdeal Transactive advanced billing solution for its next-generation network. The solution is part of an innovative infrastructure designed to meet the needs of MSV's wholesale-based business model. Highdeal Transactive

S4i Systems unveiled a new Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) capability in S4i Express - its electronic document management system for IBM System i computers. With this new feature, S4i has satisfied IBM's business and technical requirements for acceptance into the IBM SOA Specialty

For the past ten years application developers have been stuck with only two desktop client choices. Traditionally, they can choose either a very thin Web-client technology implemented in HTML and CSS, or a very heavyweight thick client experience implemented using traditional client/se

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

Everything is moving toward on-demand business where service providers react to impulses - events - from the environment. To excel in a competitive market a high level of autonomy is required, including the freedom to select the appropriate supporting IT-systems. The world is preparing

Acquia has yet to price its maintenance and support subscriptions - there should be a variety of SLAs - but they're supposed to include an electronic update notification system code named Spokes for updates that have been reviewed for security and compatibility and are supported by Acq

I came across an interesting article of Arnon Rotem-Gal-OZ about the (mis)use of the layered architecture style. I found it an interesting article, although I have an essentially different view. I think the model of layers and tiers is a services model. As it is a services model to me

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

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 built today will work

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,

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,

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

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

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. However, it's possible to al

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

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 do enterprises set ou

This session will illustrate how service-orientation brings about the ability for organizations to see changes in business processes reflected quickly in their business systems by discussing real-world applications of SOA as applied to supply-chain management.

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

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 valuable about the move t

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 s

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

Springboard Research reported that local system integrators and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) are playing a role in SOA vendors' ability to penetrate four major domestic markets in Asia. This is evident in the Chinese market that is dominated by local players. These are the findi

Micro Focus announced that Title Guaranty of Hawaii has successfully incorporated a service oriented architecture (SOA) environment to join and enhance its existing systems and COBOL-based applications. Using Micro Focus Studio for COBOL Developers 4.0, which combines Micro Focus Net E

Project Insight recently integrated project budget information from its hosted service to the back-end accounting system for customer, R.W. Smith & Company, using Web Services APIs. Project Insight helps project teams like American Honda, Merrill Lynch, and Register.com collaborate on

ILOG announced that Groupe Mutuel chose ILOG JRules to automate its claims management processes. ILOG JRules will be used as a core component of Groupe Mutuel's new service-oriented architecture (SOA). Groupe Mutuel comprises 14 insurance companies and provides services for all insuran

ABBYY announced Recognition Server 2.0, the next generation of its OCR and PDF conversion solution. Its compatibility with service-oriented architecture (SOA) through a Web Service interface, combined with seamless output to Microsoft SharePoint and document input from Microsoft Exchan

Software AG introduced the webMethods Application Modernization Suite as a comprehensive product suite for revitalizing and extending mainframe applications. The release fully leverages the company's global leadership in the service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process mana

FINEOS Corporation announced its acceptance into the IBM SOA Specialty after successfully completing IBM's rigorous SOA technical and business requirements. With this achievement, FINEOS integrates with the IBM software and strategy for SOA and will also be listed in IBM's comprehensiv

Companies adopting service-oriented architecture (SOA) spent $1.4 million on software and services in 2007, according to a report released by AMR Research. 'The SOA Spending Report 2007-2008,' which surveyed IT executives from the United States, Germany, and China, found that the prima

According to a new study from Aberdeen, comprehensive, consistent and proactive performance measurement and testing best maximize the business value of service-oriented architecture (SOA) investments. The new Aberdeen study found that 64% of Best-in-Class companies proactively manage t

JBoss and iWay Software announced an agreement designed to bring a full range of information management capabilities to global organizations. The combined power of iWay Software's pre-built data and application connectors and JBoss' enterprise application platform delivers a complete S

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 systems and structures de

businessMart AG announced it has accelerated its entry into new business markets thanks to a new Web-based trading platform built on IBM's service oriented architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0 technology. Combining a flexible infrastructure with mashup technology, businessMart empowered its