SOA calls for new management methods
Some new technologies may allow for management to follow deployment, but not service-oriented architecture.
Some new technologies may allow for management to follow deployment, but not service-oriented architecture.
BEA Systems's board of directors has named an acquisition price to competitor and suitor Oracle: US$21 (NZ$27.60) a share, US$4 more than Oracle's initial offer.
Uptake of service-oriented architecture in New Zealand is being constrained by a lack of skilled staff, says Deloitte’s local consulting senior manager, James Clarke.
IBM has released SOA products for integrating software applications and improving business processes, and says more customers are starting to understand the SOA concept.
Oracle has announced an enhanced version of its business process analysis software that improves collaboration between process modellers and implementers.
Service-oriented architectures are supposed to spell doom for the enterprise resource planning (ERP) market dominated by SAP and Oracle — at least that’s what AMR Research predicted a year ago.
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.
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.
Public sector organisations are likely to lead adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA) in the Asia-Pacific region, says a report from analyst firm Forrester Research.
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.
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.
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.
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 has announced an expansion of its relationship with Oracle to move mainframe and Unix deployments to Linux and SOA (service-oriented architecture).
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.