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• A business-focused approach in SOA design, governance

  By Randy Heffner | 04 August, 2011 04:28

  If you listen to industry discussion of service-oriented architecture (SOA), you are likely to get the impression that SOA is best thought of as a technical approach for application integration. The reality is that SOA is much more.

• Forrester: SOA is alive and well

  By Chris Kanaracus | 24 March, 2011 05:15

  It's been a little hard of late to find references to SOA (service-oriented architecture), the buzz-phrase that once saturated the IT industry but in recent years has succumbed to "cloud computing." But SOA remains alive and relevant, according to a new Forrester Research report.

• Talend acquires SOA vendor Sopera

  By Chris Kanaracus | 11 November, 2010 06:59

  Open-source data integration vendor Talend is expanding its footprint into SOA (service-oriented architecture), announcing Wednesday that it has purchased Sopera, developer of an open-source ESB (enterprise service bus) and other technologies. Terms were not disclosed.

• SOA's not dead says Burton

  By Maxwell Cooter | 06 November, 2010 02:13

  SOA is set for a comeback according to analyst company, Burton. Nearly two years ago, it was a Burton analyst, Anne Thomas Manes, who proclaimed that SOA was dead but it appears that reports of its demise have been exaggerated.

• Complexity of IT systems will be our undoing

  By John Dix | 04 November, 2010 03:24

  Roger Sessions, CTO of ObjectWatch and an expert in software architecture, argues that the increasing complexity of our IT systems will be our undoing.  In fact, he just recently got a patent for a methodology that helps deal with complex IT systems. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with Sessions to get his take on the extent of the problem and possible solutions.

• HTML5 raises new security issues

  By Joab Jackson | 21 August, 2010 03:07

  When it comes to new security issues, the security team for the Firefox browser have the new version of the Web HyperText Markup Language, HTML5, foremost on the mind.

• Talend to release integrated data management tool

  By Maxwell Cooter | 20 April, 2010 05:06

  Open source data management company, Talend, has pulled together its data integration, data quality and master data management (MDM) products into one integrated release. The company said that Talend 4.0 would offers users higher productivity and lower operational costs.

• Google hosts 400 CIOs, updates Docs

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 13 April, 2010 06:55

  Google's enterprise division is hosting several hundred CIOs on Monday at its headquarters, where it will unveil enhancements to its Docs office suite, including a revamped code base.

• Most IT directors look to SOA to cut costs

  By Anh Nguyen | 06 April, 2010 06:01

  The majority of businesses will embrace Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in an effort to cut costs, a new survey has revealed.

• Forrester: Uncertain future for SAP's NetWeaver

  By Chris Kanaracus | 23 March, 2010 07:01

  SAP customers shouldn't rely on the vendor's NetWeaver technology stack for all of their middleware needs in the future, according to Forrester Research.

• Red Hat boosts JBoss SOA platform and developer tools

  By Paul Krill | 23 March, 2010 06:39

  Red Hat rolled out on Monday updates to its SOA platform and development tools in the company's JBoss middleware product line at the EclipseCon 2010 conference.

• Infor's Flex upgrade program termed an early success

  By Chris Kanaracus | 09 March, 2010 07:07

  ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Infor says its customers are warming up to Flex, a new upgrade and application-exchange program it started last year.

• App performance '1.0' bad for cloud, SOA: exec

  By Kathleen Lau | 27 February, 2010 06:04

  The founder and CEO of an application performance management (APM) software vendor said that today's IT development and production environments are not adequately served by what he terms "APM 1.0."

• Union Pacific Railroad ditches its mainframe for SOA

  By Thomas Hoffman | 09 January, 2010 05:40

  At the heart of Union Pacific Corp.'s railroad operations is an IBM mainframe-based transportation control system that's been chugging along like a hardworking locomotive for nearly 40 years. According to industry experts, it was a pioneering system when first introduced, and it made the Omaha-based transportation giant one of the first companies in the world to make extensive use of online transaction processing technologies.

• Oracle buys AmberPoint for SOA management

  By Chris Kanaracus | 09 February, 2010 06:45

  Oracle on Monday fattened up its already burgeoning middleware stack, announcing Monday that it has purchased SOA (service oriented architecture) management vendor AmberPoint. Terms were not disclosed.