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  • Freight company executive details SOA success

    Con-way, a freight transportation and logistics company, began developing its service-oriented architecture in 1998. Since then, it has evolved into an event-driven architecture, where computer systems can subscribe to and publish “events” — like an order being received — and process events according to pre-defined rules. Maja Tibbling, lead enterprise architect at Con-way, talked to Computerworld US at the Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference.

  • SOA helps build dialogue between IT and users

    Shaygan Kheradpir, CIO at Verizon Communications, gets several mostly cordial instant messages each day from line-of-business workers — such as customer service representatives — asking for help with their IT systems.

  • Web 2.0 melds well with SOA, incremental development – consultant

    The vaunted “Web 2.0” bunch of internet innovations includes surprisingly little that is new on a technical front, says consultant Stefan Korn. Most of it can be achieved in standard HTML. The new style represents, rather, an attitudinal change, towards a more two-way approach to the web.

  • Measuring SOA performance a complex art

    As companies become increasingly reliant on service-oriented architectures to support mission-critical transactions, monitoring the performance of web services — which can be more complex than traditional system monitoring — is quickly becoming an IT priority.

  • SOA requires new testing tools, processes

    Before the recent move to service-oriented architectures, application testing mostly called for ensuring that a software application performed as it was designed, could handle specific loads and could be integrated with other isolated applications.

  • Accentuating SOA laboratory project’s goal

    Accenture recently announced a US$450 million (NZ$727 million) service-oriented architecture initiative that includes building a new research laboratory and developing tailored SOA applications for specific industries. The IT services firm says its SOA technology lab will initially focus on the healthcare industry through an e-prescription project that’s aimed at integrating the various steps involved in filling a prescription.

  • SOA proves itself in Texas storm for Austin Energy

    On May 3, Andres Carvallo, CIO at Austin Energy in Texas, joked that a spring storm was needed to test the first, newly installed application to run on the electricity utility’s service-oriented architecture (SOA).

  • GIF vs SOA Link — duelling standards

    Does the world really need two separate industry initiatives devoted to interoperability in SOA (service-oriented architecture) governance? Panellists from technology companies in the governance field debated this question at the Burton Group Catalyst Conference, held in San Francisco earlier this month.

  • The show-off moment: a danger for developers

    ICT architects need to learn “expectation management” skills, so what they deliver coincides with what the client expected in terms of services and payback to the business, says Unisys ICT architect Dermot O’Brien.

  • SOA compliance leads the way

    Having seen many vendor presentations announcing new products and strategies recently, I’ve noticed a common thread. The IT world has embraced the concept of total multi-vendorism based upon agreed-to industry standards.

  • Bridging the SOA-ITIL gap

    Two of today's most popular acronyms in the alphabet soup of the IT industry are ITIL and SOA. The IT Infrastructure Library has gained attention as a governance framework aimed at helping IT operations people become more productive and effective, while service-oriented architecture has become the guidepost for software developers seeking to make their applications more user-friendly and flexible. Although these two concepts complement each another, many organisations have failed to align their ITIL and SOA initiatives properly.

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