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

If governance were a house, you would be left with the options of either building it from the ground-up or attempting to haul a complete house in on a large truck. While the latter is possible, it is fraught with difficulty. The house does not lend itself well to transport. It may beco

MomentumSI announced Harmony - a SOA framework that blends enterprise architectural methods with practical implementation techniques. The assets that comprise the Harmony offering are crucial to corporations seeking to ensure successful SOA deployment.

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

IDS Scheer announced support for the OASIS SOA Reference Model used in tandem with ARIS SOA Architect. The structure and management of a business process-oriented service landscape requires close cooperation between specialized departments and IT within companies. IDS Scheer has levera

DataDirect has announced DataDirect Shadow mainframe-to-SOA integration support for IBM's new System z10 mainframe. DataDirect Shadow version 7 is a mainframe integration platform capable of diverting SOA and data workloads from IBM's general purpose mainframe processors to the more ec

Many SOA projects are created out of hype, not need. Clearly many enterprises are 'managing by magazine' and are more concerned about doing something cool rather than doing something helpful. You know the difference, and I'm sure there are both types of projects in your organization to

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,

AccuRev and Electric Cloud announced a technology partnership designed to improve software development productivity and efficiency. The combined solution, which integrates the automated build, test and deployment functionality of Electric Cloud's ElectricCommander software with proces

Active Endpoints announced the availability of ActiveVOS 5.0. ActiveVOS 5.0 revolutionizes the design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance of composite applications for line of business developer project teams who are struggling to balance the technological challenges of u

ERUCES announced its acceptance to the IBM Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Specialty after completing IBM's SOA technical and business requirements. With this achievement ERUCES' Tricryption application integrates with the IBM software and strategy for SOA.

AccuRev announced the availability of AccuRev 4.6 for ClearCase, the latest add-on to its software configuration management (SCM) solution. AccuRev 4.6 for ClearCase provides coexistence for optimal support of parallel, geographically distributed and Agile development with AccuRev in e

TDCI announced the availability of a new BuyDesign iSeries Adapter along with BuyDesign release 5.2. Built on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) framework, the BuyDesign iSeries Adapter makes it easy to incorporate the Microsoft Windows-based BuyDesign product configuration into ord

Next-generation middleware exploits IBM System z specialty engines, redefining mainframe total cost of ownership and spurring expanded legacy participation in Service Oriented Architectures. Of all the wonders Service Oriented Architecture has wrought in the business world, one of the

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

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

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 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 performance in 2007 was en

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).

Integration professionals have realized that point-to-point integration dramatically increases the complexity of building and maintaining corporate business processes. One manifestation of this is the increasing popularity of Service Oriented Architectures. To achieve maximum benefit f

Doesn't Oracle have its own virtualization scheme? Isn't it Xen? Well, Oracle's soon-to-be takeover, BEA - the feds just okayed the merger - said Wednesday that it had teamed with VMware to deliver Java virtualization to the enterprise.

As a student of physics, Albert Einstein is one of my personal heroes. Aside from being one of the most brilliant minds to ever contemplate the universe, Albert had a way with words. One of his quotes strikes me as particularly apropos for this month's issue - 'Any intelligent fool can

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. Recently SOA Software was p

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 information directly from

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, SQL Server 2008 and Visu

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 time to business s

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 policy that the Commission

'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 remains robust,' conc

Last month I wrote about the future, what might be ahead for SOA and beyond, focusing significantly on user interfaces. This month I'm still thinking about user interfaces and the impact they have on the final judge of any SOA project - the end user. If you've read my editorials over t

Once early adopters in corporate computing and the Internet, U.S. companies are now falling behind global competitors in driving productivity and earnings growth from technology. This is because U.S. companies deploy most of their fresh capital to fortifying older systems while more co