Features

• SOA Grows Up -- and Out

  By John S. Webster | 09 March, 2010 06:04

  Not too long ago, IT organizations turned to service-oriented architecture primarily as a way to integrate enterprise applications. But now large companies are using SOA to create components that can be combined and reused as services across multiple applications.

• 10 steps to SOA

  By Eric Knorr | 02 February, 2010 08:22

  SOA is an idea, not a technology.

• Why traditional security doesn't work for SOA

  By Chris Clark | 19 January, 2010 07:38

  Many organizations are embracing SOA as a way to increase application flexibility, make integration more manageable, lower development costs, and better align technology systems to business processes. The appeal of SOA is that it divides an organization's IT infrastructure into services, each of which implements a business process consumable by users and services.

• Sharing Data Securely to Foster Product Development

  By Kim S. Nash | 24 November, 2009 06:49

  Boston Scientific wants to tear down barriers that prevent product developers from accessing the research that went into its successful medical devices so that they can create new products faster. But making data too easily accessible could open the way to theft of information potentially worth millions or billions of dollars. It's a classic corporate data privacy problem.

• Financial crisis: The tech innovations at risk

  By John Edwards | 01 October, 2008 08:45

  September 2008 will certainly go down as one of the blackest months in Wall Street history. Venerable financial institutions such as Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and AIG abruptly vanished or were radically overhauled. Investors lost loads of money -- in some cases, fortunes -- and ordinary taxpayers are now finding themselves funding an industry bailout that could cost a staggering US$700 billion, perhaps even more.

• SOA deployments: What actually works

  By Dave Linthicum | 17 September, 2008 08:46

  SOA may have seemed the savior of bad software architecture and poor development project planning, but the reality is that it's a complex and difficult venture. Thus, the number of failed SOA projects is about equal to the successful ones. In other words, you have a 50 percent chance of failing, and the odds of failure are even greater if you work within a larger Global 2000 organization or within the government.