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  • IBM unveils new wave of SOA releases

    IBM has released SOA products for integrating software applications and improving business processes, and says more customers are starting to understand the SOA concept.

  • Putting the A into SOA is a vital step

    Without an architecture, there is no SOA. “Architecture identifies the key components of your business and how they interact with you, to give you the overall structure,” says Hong Zhang, chief architect at General Motors. With that architectural blueprint in place, both business and IT can identify, build, change and manage services that attend to the business’s big-picture needs, not just those of a specific project.

  • Farming co-op extends rollout of SOA tool

    US agricultural company Southern States Cooperative is rolling out a new service-oriented architecture (SOA) tool companywide in an effort to boost the efficiency of developers now using several different technologies.

  • NZ Post’s SOA move cuts operational costs by 70%

    NZ Post is claiming a 70% reduction in IT operating costs, after moving to a service-oriented architecture and open-source operating system — despite saying it is just 30% through its transformation journey.

  • How SOA increases your application security risk

    Service-oriented architecture changes the security equation by introducing a greater reliance on third parties for application development and operation. But according to Ray Wagner, managing vice president of information security and privacy at Gartner, this is a matter of degree rather than an introduction of a totally new security exposure.

  • Electricity provider makes efficiency gains with SOA

    Using a service-oriented architecture, the Southside Electric Cooperative in Virginia has successfully eliminated much of the paperwork that slowed its processes, enabling it to double the rate at which it collects delinquent payments and reduce the average time it takes to complete service work from three days to one, officials at the utility say.

  • SOA adoption slow but steady

    Since about 2003, service-oriented architecture (SOA) has been touted as the network-based, next-generation computing environment, replacing the client-server architecture of the 1990s.

  • Unisys and Oracle target Linux shifts

    Unisys has announced an expansion of its relationship with Oracle to move mainframe and Unix deployments to Linux and SOA (service-oriented architecture).

  • SOA benefits need spelling out: users

    For many companies, the move to a service-oriented architecture (SOA) can yield substantial rewards, including reduced operating costs and better customer service. But those benefits only show up after companies work through thorny problems such as obtaining executive buy-in, shifting the way development groups operate and hammering out sometimes contentious new business rules.

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