Delta Lloyd Germany has announced it is using Perforce, the Fast Software Configuration Management (SCM) system, to manage its move to a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environment. Perforce was chosen for its functionality, scalability, integration with thi...

MuleSource announced a partnership agreement with Ippon Technologies, a J2EE and SOA consultancy. The deal establishes Ippon Technologies as a premier partner in France, Switzerland, and Morocco. The partnership brings together category-leading technology from M...

US-based IBM has launched the retail integration framework, a service oriented architecture-based platform to allow users to manage customer data and process to improve delivery.

SYSPRO said that the company has been recognized by AMR Research as an early provider of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). The AMR Research Report referencing SYSPRO, 'ERP Providers Serving the Midmarket,' was published in late 2007.

SunGard announced today that Dawood Islamic Bank Limited (DIBL), the sixth Islamic bank to be licensed by the State Bank of Pakistan, is now Live with SunGard's System Access Customer Service Manager to provide a solution for personal and corporate Internet bankin...

IBM has announced the IBM Retail Integration Framework, an enterprise software architecture designed to help retailers accelerate the implementation of new customer-focused strategies. For example, the new framework, which is based on a service-oriented architec...

A recent spending survey of companies with active service oriented architecture (SOA) projects conducted by AMR Research shows IBM 'is well ahead of its traditional competitors' doing SOA-related client work. According to the AMR Research report, 'SOA: The State o...

MEGA International announced that Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield is using the MEGA Modeling Suite to eliminate redundant business processes and IT systems and improve information access.

MediSolution Ltd. announced the availability of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) products and services specifically designed for Healthcare and Service sector organizations. The extensive offering includes architecture and design consulting services, integrat...

The software development community may remember 2008 as the year that C++ regained respect as a robust development platform. With the recent shift to multi-core processors and the accelerated adoption of service orientated architecture (SOA) standards like Service...

With the immediate need for exposing Web services from portals and Web applications, the various RIA (Rich Internet Application) development environments are proving to be rapid enablers. This session takes a look at AJAX techniques and Microsoft ASP.NET SharePoin...

Computer Sciences Corp has won a $89m task order to provide service-oriented architecture services to the US Defense Information Systems Agency. DISA provides communications and systems support for US combat missions. CSC will handle development, installation, ...

BEA Systems announced the imminent release of BEA SmartConnect 3.0, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to enterprise resource planning (ERP) connectivity. BEA SmartConnect 3.0 consists of a proven, scalable and complete connectivity solution designed t...

BEA Systems announced the release of BEA AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0, a comprehensive enterprise service bus (ESB) that is designed to improve the integration process for enterprise-wide service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments. The solution is an SOA integra...

IBS has gone live with its first Windows version of its IBS Enterprise application. The installation for the property company, Varbergs Bostads AB, was implemented according to plan and the application has exhibited high performance under large transaction volumes...

Ultimus announced that it has been recognized as a leader in The Forrester Wave: Human-Centric BPM for Microsoft Platforms, Q4 2007, Forrester Research, Inc., December 2007. Positioned as a leader, the company was one of a select group of vendors asked to participate in the evaluation.

E-Z Data announced its acceptance into the IBM SOA Specialty after successfully completing IBM's SOA technical and business requirements. With the achievement E-Z Data's SmartOffice CRM application integrates with the IBM software and strategy for SOA.

IBM has announced a partnership with application software vendor ACI Worldwide for developing service oriented architecture-based payment system to share information across banking applications. Under the terms of the agreement, the software from ACI will run on...

NetManage, Inc. announced the launching of a new solution package which reinforces its commitment to the iSeries market. The package's attractive offering and its ease-of use solutions, will allow NetManage customers to be closer to their real business needs and to ...

Trivera Technologies, LLC and The SOA Monitor, LLC jointly announced their strategic partnership to offer full-service education and consulting services to those organizations looking to achieve real business flexibility and deliver real business value fast throug...

Compiere has unveiled Compiere 3.0, which includes numerous functional and stability innovations to its open source ERP and customer relationship management (CRM) core. Compiere 3.0 also marks the introduction of Compiere Professional Edition, a new offering targe...

Parasoft Corporation announced in a recent independent comparison review, InfoWorld found Parasoft SOAtest to be the best overall solutions after reviewing five different testing solutions used for SOA testing. Parasoft SOAtest is a comprehensive, collaborative te...

Open source has made significant inroads into middleware deployments in the enterprise. More and more, open source is being used to deliver the benefits of SOA and open source to the enterprise. This session explores where open source is getting the most traction ...

This is happening right now in many organizations and it extends beyond the introduction of collaboration technologies, such as wikis and blogs, to the next level of workplace interactions. Business - New software products will allow information workers to freel...

In this session we'll talk about the notion of the Universal SOA, and how to prepare your SOA to see the outside world, and the emerging Web. It's clear that many of the services we consume and manage going forward will be services that exist outside of the enterp...

The original goal of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) concept was to build flexible, loosely coupled systems. That meant removing or lessening the runtime dependencies between components or endpoints. One of the best, if overused, examples of loosely coup...

The momentum behind service-oriented systems is intense and the hype machine is in full swing. Consequently, it is tempting to believe that if you slap a SOAP/REST/JSON/etc., wrapper around all your enterprise systems, you will be able to cash in on the service-or...

SOA is becoming the prevailing choice for IT enterprises and the success of this transition to an SOA is based on quality of the SOA governance solution. This session will highlight why SOA governance is crucial for the successful transition to SOA. It will also ...

The Reference Model for SOA is an OASIS standard. It provides a vocabulary for service-oriented applications that allows people to achieve a common understanding when they talk about services. This talk will explain how to use the reference model in discussions with...

In this session Frank Cohen will introduce the technologies that go into a SOA development stack, including composite applications, application servers, ESBs, Master Data Management, registry/epository, XML parsers, Workflow engines, databases, and protocols. Call...

According to Gartner, 80 percent of data transfer is done via FTP. A time-consuming and unreliable process born from the mainframe, FTP regularly impacts e-commerce and supply chain orders and processes, unnecessarily disrupting business and jeopardizing revenue. ...

As companies embrace SOA and begin breaking apart monolithic applications, the question of how to control and secure access becomes mission critical. How do you take advantage of the flexibility inherent in a SOA while ensuring that component services are properly ...

Two trends in applications architecture - AJAX RIA on the client side and service-orientation on the server side - are enabling powerful enterprise solutions that can be leveraged in diverse business environments. In this session, Michael Peachy will use real-wo...

The integration approaches of today's content management systems, where solutions are individually programmed against each of the proprietary APIs, cannot scale and the Enterprise Content management (ECM) industry is answering that call through the development o...

The landscape of Web Services, and the shape of the SOA Infrastructure is changing. Widespread adoption of SOA concepts has gripped the attention of IT organizations worldwide, causing most to charge headfirst into strategic architecture and planning efforts that ...

To deliver quality SOA applications, enterprises need to focus their efforts on complete, collaborative, and continuous testing. The continuous aspect of testing is of specific importance due to the perpetual changes that occur as services evolve. Continuous testi...

This session will dive straight into the middle of a real-world open source SOA implementations, showing how all the facets of how the SOA Big Rules are attained within the solution. This will cover an in-depth walkthrough, by example and demos, of: How to impleme...

There is much talk about policy and governance and in many organizations, governance by fiat is the norm. Some end users refer to it as 'management by showing the door,' or 'my way or the highway' management. As SOA expands beyond the scope of IT and into business...

This presentation will demonstrate a fully integrated and secured service-oriented architecture (SOA) using WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere ESB, WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere MQ, Workplace Forms, WebSphere Portal and Tivoli Access Manager - all integrate...

We expect a lot from SOA. We want business agility to support growth, attention to customers and efficient, collaborative operations. But you can't expect what you don't inspect. Composite applications that are constantly changing call for a new testing paradigm t...