The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. Instead of building monolithic applications for each department, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) organizes ...

Compared to Wachovia's Jupiter, Middlesex Savings Bank is Pluto. Not only in size, but in orbital pace: the $3.3 billion mutual savings institution, which doesn't have shareholders breathing down its ...

If you have seen the term online, think of it as a practical way to build modern software without locking your whole business into one giant codebase.

BEA will unveil the next version of its WebLogic middleware platform at its annual user conference in May as the first part of its move to a service-oriented architecture (SOA). SOA refers to a ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) policy adds important business and technical flexibility and control to an SOA-based solution. At runtime, SOA policy provides ready access to change key operating ...

Every solid SOA-based infrastructure needs good data, and good data can come from service oriented architecture. In a new post, Rob Barry makes the case for bringing together the like-minded ...

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 ...

The realities of project deadlines, team skills, and tight budgets mean that building a Web services SOA (service-oriented architecture) is less about choosing a technology than it is about spotting ...

See more TechXchange Talks videos. Automotive service-oriented architecture (SOA) is designed to provide a framework for developers to create a modular, automotive software more quickly by using ...

Designing our applications as small independent units is the first step towards building a modern infrastructure that is nimble, agile and scalable. Legacy systems still form the backbone of many ...

In a nutshell, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an old — but overlooked — way to design distributed information technology applications so they align with business needs and processes instead of ...

I recently read through a large collection of analyst reports on service-oriented architecture (SOA) that have been published in the past year. I was pleasantly surprised at the amount of agreement ...