By SOA World Magazine News Desk IBM has introduced new versions of two software products, part of its growing InfoSphere portfolio, that deliver information on demand to the people, processes and applications that rely on it. The new products help customers create and manage trusted information from across their ente... Aug. 19, 2008 11:30 PM Reads: 215 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk The SOA Consortium announced the availability of a podcast and slide deck of the presentation by K. Scott Morrison, VP of Engineering and Chief Architect at Layer 7 Technologies, on "How to Fail at SOA," recorded at the SOA Consortium meeting in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in June. Callin... Aug. 19, 2008 10:30 PM Reads: 165 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a software architecture where functionality is grouped around business processes and packaged as interoperable services. SOA also describes IT infrastructure which allows different applications to exchange data with one another as they participat... Aug. 19, 2008 09:30 PM Reads: 213 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk AMB has been chosen by North Shore Credit Union as their data quality provider to cleanse their old system data as part of their data governance program. The tight integration with ETL tools and the availability of integrated SOA components and tools usable by their stakeholders was a ... Aug. 19, 2008 01:00 PM Reads: 150 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Active Endpoints announced that Toyota Motor Europe has deployed a sales education application that uses ActiveVOS for user provisioning and access to an education application. The new services-based application utilizes ActiveVOS capabilities including rapid development and deploymen... Aug. 19, 2008 09:30 AM Reads: 178 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Progress Software announced that McCamish Systems has deployed the Progress Sonic ESB platform to create a service oriented architecture (SOA) that will help them provide integrated services to their BPO clients. As a result of the ESB, McCamish can reduce the complexity of integration... Aug. 18, 2008 09:30 PM Reads: 306 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Conformia announced it has integrated its solution into the IBM platform to provide an end-to-end solution for drug development to the pharmaceutical industry. The solution incorporates service oriented architecture (SOA) capabilities that have been validated by IBM. Conformia's SOA ap... Aug. 18, 2008 09:15 PM Reads: 313 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk IBM announced that Vantage Deluxe World Travel has increased sales and improved business operations since turning to IBM to run its Web site and online booking system. Since switching to IBM WebSphere Commerce software, Vantage Travel has reduced order-taking time by 80 percent and inc... Aug. 18, 2008 08:30 PM Reads: 299 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Communication Intelligence Corporation, a supplier of electronic signature solutions for business process automation in the financial industry and biometric signature verification, announced that it has formed an alliance with CSC, an information technology services company. Under the ... Aug. 15, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 364 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk IBM announced that Vantage Deluxe World Travel, a travel provider for active, mature American travelers, has increased sales and improved business operations since turning to IBM to run its Web site and online booking system. Since switching to IBM WebSphere Commerce software, Vantage ... Aug. 15, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 329 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Software AG, a global provider of business infrastructure software, expanded the webMethods Application Modernization Suite with the introduction of the Discovery Edition. Based on Software AG's global reseller agreement with Relativity Technologies, the Discovery Edition can be used t... Aug. 14, 2008 04:30 PM Reads: 382 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk iTKO LISA, the provider of testing, validation and virtualization solutions for SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) and enterprise software, and dynaTrace software, the provider of lifecycle application performance management for complex SOA-based systems, announce a combined solution ... Aug. 14, 2008 04:00 PM Reads: 307 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk By making AAPT troubleshooting procedures available externally, AAPT reduces the complexity of providing service, improves customer satisfaction and reduces the internal resources required to support resellers and partners. Aug. 13, 2008 10:45 AM Reads: 454 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Micro Focus announced that Tech Systems has successfully implemented Micro Focus Server for SOA. Micro Focus will enable Tech Systems to transform its IntegraSoft order and distribution management solution into a Web-based, more user-friendly application. As a result, customers will be... Aug. 13, 2008 10:15 AM Reads: 423 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk SOA World Magazine announced today that the polls are now open for the SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards, which recognize excellence in the software, solutions, or services provided by the industry's top vendors. Readers will be casting their votes until November 8, 2008. Winne... Aug. 7, 2008 06:45 PM Reads: 671 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Sonoa Systems announced that Sterling Infosystems has selected its ServiceNet solution to more effectively operate Sterling's SOA infrastructure and ensure enterprise-class security, manageability and performance of these customer-facing Web services. Jul. 31, 2008 11:00 PM Reads: 948 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Ecologic Analytics announced that the new AMI interface (i.e. gateway) for Silver Spring Networks’ latest version of Utility IQ has received deployment certification from the Ecologic Integration Lab. Designed to support large deployments, this new multi-threaded gateway enables the ... Jul. 31, 2008 11:00 PM Reads: 472 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk AgilePath announced a series of new SOA Playbook Acceleration Solutions. AgilePath's SOA Acceleration Solutions are a suite of integrated offerings that include targeted SOA training, SOA workshops, and SOA XPE 'sprints' focused on delivering rapid results for key SOA focus areas, all ... Jul. 30, 2008 04:00 PM Reads: 668 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Fortify Software unveiled a technique for identifying the security implications of using common Web Services and service-oriented architecture (SOA) frameworks. Fortify conducted a thorough study of the security of 5 popular frameworks, and found critical security concerns with how the... Jul. 30, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 426 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Today, SOA is a mainstream IT initiative that ranks among the top priorities of CIOs. SOA dramatically improves the flexibility and adaptability of organizations by accelerating the time to market for new applications and processes. This paper summarizes the business benefits of adopti... Jul. 28, 2008 04:15 PM Reads: 1,017 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Few other innovations in IT offer the transformative potential of SOA. SOA is centered around a transformation of your enterprise IT architecture into a set of services that can be shared and reused across application development initiatives. The successful deployment of services requi... Jul. 28, 2008 04:00 PM Reads: 1,039 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk SOA brings challenges for every part of the IT organization, and the IT quality organization is no exception. SOA requires quality management across all types of testing--functional, performance, security and compliance. IT quality managers can develop a successful SOA quality program ... Jul. 28, 2008 03:30 PM Reads: 974 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Managing SOA services is usually done by a specific project team initially. However, in the long run, SOA must be managed in production by IT operations to take advantage of trusted operational processes. This paper describes an approach to SOA management that integrates SOA into the f... Jul. 28, 2008 02:45 PM Reads: 629 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk IBM announced they have signed an agreement regarding a proposed acquisition by IBM of ILOG to be implemented by way of concurrent cash public tender offers in both France and the United States. Through this proposed transaction, IBM will combine its business process management (BPM), ... Jul. 28, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 575 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk The technologies used by IT to create SOAs are maturing. They are found to be robust and reliable. SOA governance provides a framework for making and applying the decisions that determine how the SOA will be designed, developed and operated. Work with real enterprises deploying SOAs to... Jul. 28, 2008 02:15 PM Reads: 644 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Managed Methods has announced the addition of Synovus Financial to its customer list. Synovus is a financial services holding company with more than $33 billion in assets based in Columbus, Georgia. Synovus provides commercial and retail banking, as well as investment services, to cust... Jul. 28, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 519 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk SOA has become a strategic imperative for organizations today. Without a SOA strategy, you risk being outpaced and outperformed by competitors who are better equipped to serve customers, seize opportunities and respond to change. This paper highlights the concept of SOA governance and ... Jul. 28, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 571 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk SOA enables IT to increase agility and to lower costs. However, because of the added complexity, you need to manage SOA services and applications built with SOA to ensure their performance and availability meets the needs of the business. This white paper provides an overview of the sp... Jul. 28, 2008 12:15 PM Reads: 575 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Software AG announced that Koç Allianz has selected CentraSite from Software AG to support the company's process reengineering efforts. Established as a partnership between the Koç Group and Allianz, Koç Allianz is one of the largest insurers in Turkey with nearly one million custom... Jul. 28, 2008 10:15 AM Reads: 515 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk This Rational Quality Management ROI calculator is intended to give you an idea of what return you can garner from implementing our solutions. Our quality management solutions offer tools that help you develop a continuous process, powered by automation to govern software delivery. Thi... Jul. 25, 2008 05:00 PM Reads: 837 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk A SOA Gateway is a core infrastructure component of a SOA with the ability to integrate XML/SOAP-based services securely. Typically deployed as a hardware appliance, a SOA Gateway seamlessly controls access to services, protects information through data-level encryption, ensures the in... Jul. 25, 2008 03:45 PM Reads: 932 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Microsoft added this week workflow capabilities to BizTalk Services, the company's platform-in-the-cloud project for SOA and business process management. Jul. 25, 2008 12:00 PM Reads: 931 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk DataDirect and an operating company of Progress Software Corporation announced the availability of the DataDirect Data Integration Suite. The new offering combines DataDirect Technologies' existing XML-based technologies in one package with a single, simple installation. Software devel... Jul. 23, 2008 10:15 AM Reads: 1,173 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk OpenSpan announced that it closed $13 million of C-round venture capital funding. The round was co-led by FTVentures and Globespan Capital Partners, and included re-investments from Matrix Partners, Sigma Partners and Imlay Investments. The funding will help OpenSpan accelerate its gro... Jul. 23, 2008 10:15 AM Reads: 2,297 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Forum Systems announced it has partnered with Techlogix to bring SOA products to markets in United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Asia-Pacific. Techlogix will supply Forum Sentry with installation and architecture consulting services to its large customer base across Asia-Pacific and United A... Jul. 23, 2008 10:00 AM Reads: 2,957 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk WSO2 announced that it has extended its support for service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance through enhanced authentication. Version 1.5 of the WSO2 Identity Solution for strong Web authentication based on open standards and open source is now generally available and adds suppor... Jul. 23, 2008 10:00 AM Reads: 2,314 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk IONA has announced that Chariot Solutions has become a FUSE Partner. Chariot Solutions, as a FUSE Partner, will resell IONA's FUSE family of Open Source services and solutions to address customers' enterprise Open Source requirements. Jul. 18, 2008 03:00 PM Reads: 2,099 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk A new global survey issued by Software AG suggests that enterprise adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA) has 'crossed the chasm'. Users also identified SOA governance as a key component of sustainable implementations with holistic, lifecycle approaches viewed as a core requir... Jul. 17, 2008 11:45 AM Reads: 1,513 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Just Systems announced that it has successfully completed testing of xfy (pronounced 'x-fye'), its document-based composite application for the IBM Retail Integration Framework. xfy serves as a management interface, providing retailers optimal management and decision support through re... Jul. 16, 2008 12:00 PM Reads: 1,554 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk First Trace has completed development and released Korrigo, a standards-based engineering document management product. Korrigo is the newest addition to the KinnosaONE product family. KinnosaONE is a suite of service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions built on open standards that so... Jul. 16, 2008 12:00 PM Reads: 1,244 |