The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. Instead of building monolithic applications for each department, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) organizes ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) policy adds important business and technical flexibility and control to an SOA-based solution. At runtime, SOA policy provides ready access to change key operating ...

BEA will unveil the next version of its WebLogic middleware platform at its annual user conference in May as the first part of its move to a service-oriented architecture (SOA). SOA refers to a ...

Compared to Wachovia's Jupiter, Middlesex Savings Bank is Pluto. Not only in size, but in orbital pace: the $3.3 billion mutual savings institution, which doesn't have shareholders breathing down its ...

IT professionals and business leaders with an interest in cloud services have probably heard the term 'microservices', quite possibly in discussions about service-oriented architecture (SOA). There ...

The post of the break was one by Joe McKendrick, who says, “SOA is integration. SOA is not integration. Simple as that.” In essence, he looks at some of the confusion around the value that SOA brings ...

Service-oriented architecture or SOA is an architecture style, not a product or a project. It’s an improvement over past architectures in that it captures and uses the best practices of the ...

Service-oriented data transmission operates on an “on-demand” basis—a sender only transmits data when at least one receiver in the network needs this data, avoiding unnecessary data loading on the ...

Designing our applications as small independent units is the first step towards building a modern infrastructure that is nimble, agile and scalable. Legacy systems still form the backbone of many ...

In a nutshell, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an old — but overlooked — way to design distributed information technology applications so they align with business needs and processes instead of ...

I recently read through a large collection of analyst reports on service-oriented architecture (SOA) that have been published in the past year. I was pleasantly surprised at the amount of agreement ...