Personnel need education, defined goals to make loosely coupled Web services a benefit to government. Service-oriented architecture has been a major buzzword throughout the U.S. Defense Department for ...

The benefits of SOA are well documented, but the challenges associated with an enterprise wide SOA deployment are not. While the distributed nature of a SOA encourages reuse and provides a high level ...

Wylie Wong is a freelance journalist who specializes in business, technology and sports. He is a regular contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. The Army Human Resources Command had a ...

In light of all the pushing to bring IT to closer to the business, Dana Gardner is proposing an experiment. That is, take an accountant -- or better yet, CFO -- to lunch, to see how much they ...

I recently had the pleasure of watching Nick Gall give his take on something he describes as Web-Oriented Architecture or WOA. There are a lot of ways to view Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and ...

The number of companies investing in service-oriented architecture (SOA) has doubled over the past year in every part of the world, with a typical annual spend of nearly US$1.4 million, according to a ...

You have to hand it to some organizations, they are indeed thinking proactively around SOA. Case is point is the "Government of Canada Service Oriented Architecture Strategy - Statement of Direction." ...

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 ...

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 ...

A hint--it does not describe the new headquarters building for the International Red Cross. Rather, it is either the newest empty IT buzzword or the most important innovation in corporate computing ...

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, ...

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