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Sponsored Content
Driving Business Agility Through SOA Connectivity and Integration
This white paper shows how a service oriented architecture (SOA) helps align the infrastructure with business needs in order to achieve maximum flexibility.
Smart Work for a Smarter Planet
In this ebook, you'll get an in-depth look at how some organizations are using the right technology solutions to work smarter.
IBM WebSphere Cloudburst Appliance
Check out this online demonstration of a new hardware appliance that provides access to virtual images and patterns for easily, quickly and repeatedly creating application environments that can be securely deployed and managed in a private cloud.
SOA for Dummies Limited Edition Mini eBook
This ebook introduces you to the basics of SOA in context with the real-life experiences of seven companies, demonstrating that SOA allows you to work smarter and optimize costs for more significant business success.
Blogs
A Fresh Look at SOA Governance
Honestly, I'd rather write about anything besides governance, particularly SOA governance. I'm not sure what it is, but despite my high tolerance for tedious topics – I actually enjoyed covering planning and zoning as a journalist – the very term “governance” causes me to lose focus and drift off...More >
The Quiet Success of Web Services 'SOA'
While experts debated the definition of service-oriented architecture, its state (alive or dead?) and the significance of ESBs for SOA, a funny thing happened. Service-oriented, if not SOA per se , quietly became ubiquitous, argues Hugh Taylor, author and a marketing director of an LA enterprise...More >
Moving to the Cloud: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
During a recent podcast, SearchSOA.com Jack Vaughan asked David Linthicum why, in his new book, he said that cloud computing could “devastate” enterprise IT in much the way the Web did . It's a frightening word, “devastate,” and it's tempting to dismiss as hyperbole .... except the results...More >
Articles & Interviews
A Smarter Way to Work: Automating Decisions Through Business Process and Rules Management
Follow the subject of Business Process Management (BPM) for a while and you will be told repeatedly that BPM delivers considerable competitive advantage, especially in terms of cost, agility and efficiency. This is true, but it does so to a far greater degree today than ever before.... More >
What's Different About the CIO Job?
IBM recently concluded that in order to be successful, a CIO does three things: Make innovation real, raise the ROI of IT, and enhance the business impact [of IT]. In order to accomplish these goals, the successful CIO simultaneously executes on three pairs of contradictory actions and skills. They... More >
Joe McKendrick on The Evolution of SOA
Analyst and popular SOA blogger Joe McKendrick is conference chair for the ebizQ's conference, “ SOA in Action – SOA Means Business,” a two-day virtual event scheduled for Oct. 28 and 29 . He explained to IT Business Edge's Loraine Lawson the meaning of the conference's premise,... More >
Related Topics
WSO2 Extends SOA into Cloud Computing
The WSO2 launched the WSO2 Cloud Platform yesterday. According to the press release, published on dBusinessNews , the platform, which extends SOA into cloud computing , features the company's Cloud Virtual Machines, Cloud Connectors and WSO2 Governance-as-a-Service. In a statement released by the company, WSO2 CEO... More >
SpringCM Releases Latest Version of its SaaS ECM Platform
SpringCM has released the latest version of its SaaS enterprise content-management platform. SpringCM 5.4's upgrades aim at making the new release easier for users to share applications and distribute specific application features, says CTO Edge . Updates include enhanced automation of key records management;... More >
Lockheed Martin Opens Cyber Security Center in Maryland
According to this press release , Lockheed Martin has formed a new cyber security technology alliance with leading technology providers. The new research, development and collaboration center based in Gaithersburg, Md., is called the NexGen Cyber Innovation and Technology Center. Some of the participating companies... More >
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