Is it time to fold SOA into Enterprise Architecture (EA)? Is there even really any fundamental difference between SOA, EA, and for that matter, BPM (business process management)? That's the ...

There's been a resurgent role for service-oriented architecture as a practical and relevant ingredient for effective design and use of cloud, mobile, and big-data technologies.

What do you do when the organizing strategy for IT you’ve been selling for years–enterprise architecture–is threatened by a new order–SOA? Do you invoke revisionist history and erase all ...

What do enterprise architecture, virtualization, security, business intelligence, and organizational culture have in common with each other and with SOA? If you answered “very little to nothing ...

If you've been reading this Blog and listening to my Podcasts, you know that I've been calling SOA what SOA is…an architectural pattern, and in many instances a vital component of a healthy ...

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an approach for abstracting enterprise software capabilities as reusable services in order to support more flexible business processes and ideally, more ...

When building an enterprise-class architecture capable of supporting multiple systems and lines of business, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is considered an industry-leading practice. SOA in ...

Knowing what SOA project to start with could be a matter of finding a receptive audience, says Joseph Gaus, enterprise architect at Dow Corning in Midland, Mich. “Early on, target systems that ...

I've been speaking at different conferences in the past year. First, the SOA conferences where we talk about the revolutionary approaches to creating an agile architecture based upon the use of ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) policy adds important business and technical flexibility and control to an SOA-based solution. At runtime, SOA policy provides ready access to change key ...

The architecture determines the standards, protocols, tools and technologies the enterprise will use to build services. Governance addresses issues such as which services to develop in the first place ...

Enterprise SOA technology from SAP, Snabe says, will provide the “innovation” while also limiting the amount of “disruption” to CIOs’ enterprise architecture plans and systems.