Three issues that rise to the top fast when developing a service-oriented architecture are governance, quality, and management. In this article, part of a Network World Data Center series on SOA, ...

Focusing on the global architecture of SOA, IBM on Tuesday is introducing IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform 7.0 for the desktop. The product unveiling features a multitude of integrated products ...

The principal layers of an SOA-enabling infrastructure are service brokers, orchestration engines, message-oriented middleware environments and service-level management tools. The principal layers of ...

DENVER — Several attendees at this week’s HP Software Forum here said that as more large companies launch service-oriented architectures, there’s a growing need for software that can help users manage ...

is the shape of distributed computing in the Internet Age. At the heart, SOA is a set of practical approaches for designing shareable, reusable services. It lets enterprise IT groups treat a ...

SOA has come a long way in recent years, especially in terms of its ability to map to business processes and provide closer to real-time event handling. That's the view of Roy Schulte, a Gartner ...

Some analysts say SOA has yet to prove itself. However, the two biggest IT infrastructure vendors say SOA has moved well beyond the "prove-it" stage. IBM, which sometimes can be very tepid about ...