SOA in Action Blog

This week, the world of SOA was dominated by the Oracle's launch of the latest version of Oracle Fusion Middleware, and of course, ebizQ was all over the story. We looked at Oracle SOA Suite 11g, and Tony Baer provided... Read More..

In rolling out the latest edition of Oracle Fusion Middleware (11g), Hasan Rizvi, senior vice president of Oracle Fusion Middleware products, talked about the six major trends Oracle sees driving the market. Three are business-related trends, and three are technology... Read More..

There's no question the rise of Enterprise 2.0 and SOA approaches have resulted in a significant reduction in paperwork. I'd love to see a study someday on how many trees and other natural resources have been spared due to new... Read More..

There's been talk about the role of SOA in "Green IT." In a new article, Vance McCarthy brings a new twist to the Green SOA story -- SOA is playing a key role in cleaning up pollution in San Francisco... Read More..

SOA is an architecture, and thus fulfills requirements across the business. However, in many cases, it remains an unknown venture -- even across IT organizations. In the latest issue of SOA Magazine, Tyson Brooks, PMP, urges SOA proponents to proactively... Read More..

There's been plenty of discussion lately about the cloud computing phenomenon, but rarely is the case made for bringing in SOA. And when SOA and cloud are mentioned in the same sentence, we seldom hear about their interactions or commonalities.... Read More..

For readers seeking information on open source SOA tools, Progress Software is hosting an informative Webcast on June 30th at 1:00 Eastern Time. Scott Cranton and Jack Britton, solution engineers at Progress' FUSE ESB project, will present all the details... Read More..

While the basic ideas of SOA governance map quite naturally to cloud governance, some important shifts in priority and technology need to take place before SOA governance can be effective in the cloud. In a new feature article posted at... Read More..

I've always considered Oracle's Dave Chappell a thought leader in advancing the case for SOA across complex environments, and his latest article on application grids didn't disappoint. As Dave points out, SOA adoption is outpacing Moore's Law, meaning that all... Read More..

ebizQ colleague Brenda Michelson has just informed me that the SOA Consortium, in conjunction with CIO Magazine, is once again holding it's annual SOA case study competition. The competition is open to organizations of all sizes, including government agencies, which... Read More..