Over the years, Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) has been both revered and maligned. It seems SOA is still in search of its rightful and respected place in some organizations. Is SOA dead? Certainly not. Misunderstood, yes. Let’s get the facts from the innovators who are achieving great things with SOA. Over the next few weeks, I’ll elaborate on the surprising [...]

With SOA success stories being shared at analyst conferences, in customer conference rooms and even at your office water cooler, why are organizations still struggling to realize the full innovative power of SOA? With CIOs focused more and more on the business and less on less on technology, could it be that SOA is still considered just web services? Not [...]

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 [...]