architecture

The SOA knowledge gap

ITworld staff — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:34:25 -0500

Most enterprise employees outside of IT work for a team, in a department, in a division or some similar hierarchical structure. This pattern of organization has effectively served large corporations, governments, and militaries for a long time. But it can present challenges for SOA analysis when the IT solution requires input from representatives in all parts of the business.

802.11n Drives an Architectural Evolution

mfadgen — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:26:05 -0500

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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.

A Sterling Example of SOA

ITworld staff — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:42:40 -0400

Last week I promised to move from dissertation to illumination by shining a light on some sterling examples of real-world SOAs. In each case, the IT professionals leading these initiatives understood from the get-go that SOA is more about business processes than services.

Examining the Pieces of the Service Puzzle

ITworld staff — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:37:19 -0400

Last week, I promised to explore the difference between architectures and service-oriented architectures. Here's the kicker: There isn't a difference. Or there's a world of difference. It gets down to semantics.

You Can Hide So SOA Won't Run

ITworld staff — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:31:23 -0400

One of the best ways to secure SOA services is to hide them behind a port knocking firewall. Port knocking makes your system appear as if it offers no services at all. Any cracker who comes a-knocking' will either conclude that nobody is home, or that your administrators are smart enough to make access so difficult it's not worth the trouble to try to break in. But here's an even better way to hide your SOA services so they appear invisible to anyone except legitimate clients.

Best reuse plays in SOA

abennett — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:37:10 -0400

SOA is touted for its efficiency and agility, and if at least some of the stuff is already in place, indeed in every place, why isn't anyone getting to clock out and go home early?

Cast Iron adds data-cleansing to integration appliance

ITworld staff — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:26:02 -0400

Cast Iron Systems, maker of an appliance for integrating SaaS and on-premise applications, is introducing a new version that adds data cleansing and migration tools, along with a library of prebuilt integration templates for connecting many commercial software-as-a-service products.

Shape-shifting skyscraper to shake up Dubai skyline

nrichmond — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:40:54 -0400

"It's the first building that rotates, moves, and changes shape," said architect David Fisher of his 'Dynamic Tower,' an 80-story moving skyscraper that he is planning to build in Dubai. "This building never looks the same, not once in a lifetime," Fisher said. Each floor revolves independently a full 360 degrees on voice command. How cool is that? read more...