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 ...

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, ...

Service-oriented data transmission operates on an “on-demand” basis—a sender only transmits data when at least one receiver in the network needs this data, avoiding unnecessary data loading on the ...

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The benefits of the service-oriented architecture are widely touted: reduced integration costs, greater asset reuse, and the ability for IT to respond more quickly to ...

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 ...

How to test service-oriented architectures is no idle question. A failure in a SOA system at Heathrow Airport’s US$8.6 Billion Terminal 5 caused 1.6 British Pounds (about 3.2 million U.S. dollars) of ...

Windows Communication Foundation has steadily evolved to better support SOA and Web services. Here's how to get the most out of your WCF-based services architecture. If you want to exploit ...

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A conundrum frequently weighed at this blogsite and others over the years is the chicken-and-egg question of SOA: does good service-oriented architecture result from having a "service-oriented" focus ...

Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and marketing experience that spans from Bell Labs to startup IPOs to open-source and cloud software companies. He is CEO and founder of Nodeable, ...

Get your Google Apps as part of Salesforce.com, and surrender to your applications in the cloud. The theoretical benefits of the combined service outweigh the negatives. Dave Rosenberg has more than ...