HP and SAP strengthen relationship via SOA push
Hewlett-Packard is offering more services supporting SAP’s SOA (service-oriented architecture) approach to IT as part of the companies’ increasingly close relationship.
Hewlett-Packard is offering more services supporting SAP’s SOA (service-oriented architecture) approach to IT as part of the companies’ increasingly close relationship.
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.
The theme of IBM Forum ’06 was innovation and, in particular, ICT’s role in enabling business innovation.
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.
The local enterprise applications market will grow steadily over the next five years, says research company IDC.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Sun Microsystems is set to make a play in the SOA (service-oriented architecture) space.
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.