Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an approach for abstracting enterprise software capabilities as reusable services in order to support more flexible business processes and ideally, more agile ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) policy adds important business and technical flexibility and control to an SOA-based solution. At runtime, SOA policy provides ready access to change key operating ...

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The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. Instead of building monolithic applications for each department, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) organizes ...

The post of the break was one by Joe McKendrick, who says, “SOA is integration. SOA is not integration. Simple as that.” In essence, he looks at some of the confusion around the value that SOA brings ...

Does event driven architecture (EDA) represent the next phase of SOA? This is a subject of continuing debate, but Udi Dahan makes the case for EDA as the next logical stage of SOA. In a recent post, ...

I’m always a bit curious about what happens to technology after it settles in. When you clear away hype and pass through the trough of disillusionment, what’s left? What will history say about this ...

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, ...

A software developers' work in complex enterprise application environments usually involves spending many hours maintaining existing applications, time that could be spent building new and innovative ...

While enterprise architects (EAs) and services oriented architecture (SOA) architects are often at loggerheads today, the two will working hand in hand toward the same goals in a matter of a few years ...

Designing our applications as small independent units is the first step towards building a modern infrastructure that is nimble, agile and scalable. Legacy systems still form the backbone of many ...