Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) have gained much attention as a unifying technical architecture that can be concretely embodied with Web service technologies.
IBM is offering a range of services to telecoms providers to help them adopt service oriented architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0 technologies to enhance their service offerings to customers.
SOA is an effective way in which a company can integrate not only its diverse applications suite but also the business tasks and processes it carries out. The result is a more streamlined, flexible, adaptable, and hence competitive and effective organisation.
SOA efforts to date have emphasised information processes and have paid little attention to information management. This Cutter Consortium report attempts to rectify this imbalance, examining and elaborating on the role of information architecture within an SOA.
Charging business units for IT services and new technologies, such as service oriented architecture (SOA), is creating a greater understanding of the business value of IT investment in companies, according to senior IT professionals.
SAP will have migrated all of its enterprise resource planning products onto its next-generation Netweaver service oriented architecture before the end of the year, the ERP firm told delegates at its annual user conference last week.
SAP is building on its Netweaver service oriented architecture (SOA) software with functionality designed to help users create composite applications and ease manageability.