September 2010 Archives

We all know college tuition is at insane levels -- $30,000, $40,000, $50,000 a year and up. Could SOA help keep a lid on these costs?The Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council (PESC) says it is gaining support from leading educational institutions,... Read More..

Yes, you read that right -- "Camel."  Read on to see if we're referring to the animal that holds a lot of water or an SOA initiative that holds a lot of water...ebizQ and TechTarget will be hosting a jam-packed,... Read More..

This week, San Francisco, for all intents and purposes, has been an occupied city this week, with major streets blockaded, major venues seized, and every spare inch of hotel space vanquished. Yes, it's Oracle OpenWorld week, and the vendor, now... Read More..

Has SOA become an integral part of enterprise architecture?  Is it still possible to talk about one without talking about the other? Is it even possible to have EA without considering service orientation on some level? Dave Linthicum, a fellow... Read More..

Frost & Sullivan just issued some details about a study of SOA adoption within the US Department of Defense:Continuous advancements in IT are expected to give a huge boost to the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD's) net-centric vision. The enterprise... Read More..

JackBe's Deepak Alur took note of my recent description of SOA an an "app store for the enterprise," and provides his own perspective on the analogy. For the record, JackBe -- along with Dion Hinchcliffe -- provided the inspiration for... Read More..

ebizQ's Peter Schooff challenged readers and community members to come up with a single sentence that would describe service oriented architecture.A lot of interesting responses resulted, and I'll share some here. My own contribution was a one-line, tweetable definition, "App... Read More..

Responding to a series of ZapThink predictions that includes a statement that many IT functions will be handled outside of the organization by 2020, ebizQ's own Michael Poulin cautions that executives need to think twice before shipping things out... Read More..

HealthNow New York, one of the Northeast US's leading health insurance and employee benefits companies, deployed a data-services oriented architecture that has shortened the time-to-delivery of business critical data from months to days for Business Intelligence (BI) and other applications... Read More..

Software as a Service and off-premise cloud computing may be the topic du jour among IT observers, but these approaches don't seem to hold much appeal for manufacturing executives.  At least not yet, anyway.These observations were confirmed in a new... Read More..

ebizQ and TechTarget will be hosting a jam-packed, full-day session as part of its SOA and Application Integration Action conference, scheduled for Tuesday, October 5th.Randy Heffner, VP and principle analyst with Forrester Research will kick off the day's events with... Read More..

Does well-managed data equal corporate profitability? A big Yes, says a new study, underwritten by Sybase and conducted by researchers from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas and Indian School of Business, which connects the... Read More..