Today’s technology foundation must be built to support and benefit diverse operational efforts across many lines of business. Although organizations recognize the value of a flexible architecture, disconnected silos plague their efforts making it difficult to achieve the full value locked in disparate systems. However, many organizations are reporting compelling results when using a Service-Orientated Architecture (SOA) as a foundation [...]

Yes it’s true, everyone fails from time to time but do IT projects fail more than the average? According to the Standish Group, a technology research group and consultancy, who publishes the ‘Chaos Report’ covering IT project failure rates, reported in 2009 24% of all IT projects ‘failed’. 44% of projects were considered ‘challenged’, making only 32% of projects ‘successful’. [...]