SOA

Cyber-criminals Get Organized

James Gaskin — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:29:00 -0500

Symantec just released a new way to make us lose sleep at night, called the Symantec Report on the Underground Economy. In case you weren't depressed enough by the regular economy, Symantec will be happy to bum you out about the increasingly organized world of hackers, spammers, and phishers.

Ensuring Service Enablement from SOA

akmani — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:46:19 -0500

The single reason that you use IT within your organization is for service enablement. IT has proven itself to be essential to provide the levels of service that customers demand.

Gartner: Four disruptions to transform the software industry

ITworld staff — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:47:05 -0400

Change is not just a political hot topic these days. According to a Gartner analyst, four emerging software solutions are reshaping software as we know it and will likely cause major disruptions to vendors and how the software industry delivers its products and services.

IBM goes back to basics with its SOA strategy

Sara Kaufman — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:14:45 -0400

IBM’s ability to conduct a grassroots SOA world tour demonstrates its competitive advantages

John Stepper brings SOA to Deutsche Bank

ITworld staff — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:15:59 -0400

My last one-on-one interview featured a coding cowboy's successful fast-draw approach to service-oriented architecture. But that's not the only maverick approach in innovative IT shops. At Deutsche Bank in New York, John Stepper is doing the SOA equivalent of changing an engine while the car is running.

8 characteristics of successful SOA implementations

ITworld staff — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:17:18 -0400

The SOA Consortium and CIO magazine recently announced the winners of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Case Study Competition. All of the winners successfully delivered business or mission value using an SOA approach -- and they all shared these 8 characteristics.

OppenheimerFunds gets ROI from Agile, SOA

ITworld staff — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:55:05 -0400

OppenheimerFunds used to have a data entry problem. Address changes that customers made on its website had to be manually re-entered into a variety of back-end systems before they went into effect. The company had a choice: to solve this one immediate problem, or to invest a little more time and money in order to plan a little bit further ahead.

Oracle's Fusion app suite may not ship until 2010

ITworld staff — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:30:50 -0400

Oracle may not deliver the first suite of its long-awaited Fusion Applications until 2010, according to Steve Miranda, senior vice president of Fusion application development.

Rozwat talks about cloud, but holds back on Fusion

ITworld staff — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:14:24 -0400

Chuck Rozwat, Oracle's head of product development, largely deflected questions about hotly anticipated technologies such as Fusion Applications during a Q&A session with reporters at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, but did reveal more details of the vendor's plans around cloud computing.

Oracle aims to get Fusion to some by next year

ITworld staff — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:31:22 -0400

Oracle is aiming to get the first version of Fusion Applications into the hands of early adopters in 2009, and the initial version of the software will deliver a significant chunk of functionality, an Oracle executive said during a panel session Sunday at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.