I've just spent the last week immersed in user conferences and briefings, and at every juncture the question of web services and service architectures came up. And every time the issue moved from ...

Whether you're an SOA skeptic, cynic, or advocate, there's always confusion around many of the terms and definitions used within this space. As one reader wryly added to my last post on SOA's greatest ...

As enterprises rush to assess how they can benefit from service-oriented architecture (SOA), many naturally but mistakenly focus on the technological aspects of the solution. As an architecture, it’s ...

With SOA right now, I think the big picture here is pretty clear about the notions of interfaces, the notion of true distributed computing, the notions of being able to say if Im interacting with you ...

Burton Group analyst Anne Thomas Manes has declared SOA dead but says that offshoots like mashups and cloud computing remain alive and well SOA is dead but services remain alive, according to a ...

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 changing business and regulatory ...

In this article, we examine how security applies to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Before we discuss security for SOA, lets take a step back and examine what SOA is. SOA is an architectural ...

SAP SOA is now a mainstream architectural strategy being followed by SAP customers for providing future proof integration to SAP and non-SAP systems. However, customers are not clear on the SAP SOA ...

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, ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Cloud computing may have overtaken SOA as the trendy technology term du jour, but the two concepts can be paired to bolster service deployments, industry experts say. With cloud computing, enterprises ...