"All this money is going into ESBs and Web services, and they get a dozen or two integration projects going, but are they getting any business value out of that? I don't see it." -Anne Thomas Manes, ...

Intel Corporation reports that it has seen a return on investment "in excess of tens of millions of dollars" as a result of its three-year-old SOA effort. Intel gradually moves from custom development ...

We've seen the hype: "We're a SOA tool, and we're here to help." However, most SOA vendors out there don't understand the value of SOA, nor how to approach SOA. They focus on the tactical, and not the ...

Like it or not most mission critical processing still happens on a mainframe today. Mainframes literally run the business world. Unfortunately, most companies with systems older then ten years are ...

With all the attention that service-oriented architecture and Web services are getting, I thought I’d fast forward to a time when every organization has implemented SOA and Web services to some extent ...

Service-oriented architectures are expected to have a stronghold over future apps but those implementing the integration process today continue to encounter uncertainties from the corporate world.

Old-school programming languages like COBOL are arguably the most significant roadblock between mainframe and SOA harmony. It’s also a far more complicated language barrier than can be solved by ...

Middleware vendor BEA Systems has announced the first three members of its Enterprise Integration Portfolio (EIP), tools aimed at helping users at different stages of their SOA (service-oriented ...

I thought cloud computing would do away with acronym-laden technologies such as service-oriented architecture (SOA). Can’t you just sign up for applications run in a public cloud? You can, but what ...

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