For Web services to succeed in extending the remarkably successful "document" Web into a "trusted business services" Web that reliably spans the globe, designers must apply service-oriented security ...

Organizations often are challenged to get the most value out of their service-oriented systems. Whether they are implementing an enterprise application integration (EAI) solution or developing a ...

This analyst report from Macehiter Ward-Dutton explores the various perspectives tied up with the question of what constitutes an IT service and shows how to avoid the risks of missing the real point ...

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an approach for abstracting enterprise software capabilities as reusable services in order to support more flexible business processes and ideally, more agile ...

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Legacyisn’t planned — it just happens. For many public-sector organizations, the challenges of operating with legacy systems are all too familiar. Legacy environments are expensive and time-consuming ...

Personnel need education, defined goals to make loosely coupled Web services a benefit to government. Service-oriented architecture has been a major buzzword throughout the U.S. Defense Department for ...

The future of software is service-oriented architecture, according to Charles Stack, president of Flashline. The enterprise application as we know it is dead. Zombie-like, it still lumbers along, ...

The IT industry is notorious for pushing the next big thing, and for several years now the primary object of its hype has been SOA, or “service-oriented architecture.” The idea behind this concept is ...

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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 ...