"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, ...

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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 ...

It was hard not to laugh just a little bit when I read how a TV channel in the UK solved its integration problems. See if you can guess where the maniacal laugh started. (Hint: It’s in bold). “Legacy ...

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 ...

The post of the break was one by Joe McKendrick, who says, “SOA is integration. SOA is not integration. Simple as that.” In essence, he looks at some of the confusion around the value that SOA brings ...

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 ...

Everybody knows that service-oriented architecture is all about integration. Integrating departments, companies, government agencies, vendors, and customers is SOA’s sweet spot. What isn’t as often ...

Many Web services are merely APIs wrapped up in some Web interfaces; they can make only single-point connections to legacy systems. They are but a shadow compared with the larger vision embodied in a ...