Service-oriented architecture (SOA) development

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  • Strategic SOA outpacing tactical Web services for ROI

    A new Aberdeen Group survey that tactical Web services implementations do not pay off as well as strategic SOA efforts validates other analysts and consultants' experience. 

  • BPM-driven SOA criticized

    In the face of all the analysts saying that service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) are two sides of the same coin, Joe McKendrick finds an SOA advocate who argues that BPM-driven is a bad idea. "BPM-driven SOA tends... 

  • SOA and BPM convergence drives acquisitions

    As enterprise architecture encompasses service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) and modeling, vendors look for ways to expand the breadth of tool as seen in this week's acquisition of Proforma Corp. by Metastorm Inc. 

  • SOA investment seen paying off

    IT organizations that made the investment in SOA infrastructure such as ESBs, repositories, and registries, are significantly outperforming companies that develop only Web services, according to a new report from Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company... 

  • SOA principles apply to data access and management

    Service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles can be used to retrieve and organize information in data services, Burton Group analyst says. 

  • SOA acronym victim of own success?

    How long will SOA last? As an acronym it is likely to go the way of GUI, says Joe McKendrick, who predicts SOA will soon be as pervasive as GUI is now, and the buzz term will fade because its presence in business computing will be a given. 

  • SOA from Mars?

    Playing on the titles of the popular self-help books on male/female relationships, Tony Baer, the analyst from OnStrategies, recently gave a talk titled "BPMs are from Venus -- SOAs from Mars." His argument is that business process management (BPM) i... 

  • SOA modeling tool released by CA

    CA Inc., today announced the availability of CA Plex r6, a tool that enables model-driven development of Web services in Microsoft .NET, J2EE and IBM System i environments. It allows developers to apply data modeling to Web services across multiple p... 

  • Rethinking SOA and BPM

    It is small minded to think of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) in terms of chicken and egg or which comes first, argues Neil Ward-Dutton, research director, Macehiter Ward-Dutton. "The more profitable way of ... 

  • CIOs tracking SOA ROI

    The number of CIOs jumping on the service-oriented architecture (SOA) bandwagon is increasing, and blogger Joe McKendrick attributes it to ROI metrics showing the value of this approach to software development. "The lesson here is that SOA's value is...