Lockheed Martin's Savi business launched SmartChain 5.0, a platform and application suite providing new capabilities that enhance the performance, business processes and efficiency of supply chains for commercial and government customers. Savi SmartChain 5.0 lever...

Martin Dawes Systems announced the launch of its Business Process Engine (BPE), a SOA-based solution for service providers who want to customize their customer service management systems. The latest addition to the Martin Dawes Systems product family, BPE is a ful...

Open source has made signficant 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. There are many custom Enterprise Service Bus deployments waiting to be ...

GT Software announced that its flagship GT Software Ivory Service Architect solution was utilized by SunTrust Bank for extending banking services to customers' cell phones. The new service uses GT Software's flagship solution, Ivory Service Architect, to connect ...

Nastel is a recognized market leader in providing solutions for application performance monitoring and management. Nastel's solutions empower IT teams to consistently assure high performance and availability of business applications. Nastel's AutoPilot Suite of ...

Thetus and CommIT are expanding the boundaries of service-oriented architecture (SOA) through participation in aXiom, a U.S. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Charleston-led initiative to improve situational awareness. The aXiom project deploys applied semant...

Strangeloop Networks announced the WS1000 Web Services Accelerator, an appliance that accelerates enterprise applications in Service-O riented-Architecture (SOA) environments by caching web services. Deployed as an appliance that sits between web applications and t...

IBM announced that Cars.com has selected IBM software to drive a multi-year service oriented architecture (SOA) project that will help the online car shopping destination accelerate its business growth by delivering information on demand to car shoppers and advertisers.

Intel Corporation announced Intel SOA Expressway for Healthcare, software that provides a way to exchange healthcare information inside hospitals and with health information networks. The product will allow healthcare providers to connect with one another so tha...

WaveMaker announced the appointment of Roger Sippl to the Board of Directors. With over 30 years of experience in building and managing enterprise software companies, Sippl will help guide WaveMaker as it continues to expand its AJAX open source Web application de...

WSO2 announced the expansion of its management team to advance WSO2's product initiatives and services for the company's growing enterprise customer base. Paul Fremantle, WSO2 co-founder, has been promoted to CTO from his previous role as vice president of technic...

MuleSource announced that TM Software has joined the MuleSource Partner Program. Touting a 20-year history of technology innovation, Iceland-based TM Software supports more than 1,200 customers worldwide. TM Software specializes in providing solutions for the heal...

The ever-increasing movement towards implementing complex SOA-based applications has triggered a direct attention of leading industry researchers and practitioners to the subject of layering in such applications, in general, and the relationship between the fiel...

The continuing success of SOA World Conference & Expo, now in its 13th successive iteration - this time in June, on the East Coast, in the historic Roosevelt Hotel in New York City - has led SYS-CON Events to expand its reach by adding a co-located parallel event,...

'As SOA rapidly becomes the standard for enterprise architectures, the need for robust technologies for data access and data integration has become more critical then ever before,' says John Goodson, executive leader of DataDirect Technologies. Goodson will be k...

'Diligent's data de-duplication software is a critical technology that will be integrated into the IBM Storage portfolio,' said Andy Monshaw, general manager, IBM System Storage, as IBM today announced that it has acquired Diligent Technologies. Data de-duplicatio...

While SOA can deliver dramatic cost reduction of an organization's business operations, it is a complex, multidisciplinary undertaking, and therefore introduces significant risk. This session presents a list of the most important risk factors and ways to mitigat...

SOA implementations are increasingly reliant on streams of data that are time-critical, reliably delivered and sourced from mixed infrastructures in a highly distributed environment. Data formats, delivery mechanisms, fault tolerance capabilities and stateful se...

Many organizations make the faulty assumption that SOA is a panacea that can, and should be, applied to every situation. The reality is that service orientation is not the right answer for every scenario. The expense of service orientation cannot always be recoupe...

Ranked by Gartner as a leader in the Application Infrastructure Software market, Fujitsu helps companies build SOA-enabled BPM applications that can be shared across the enterprise to lower operating costs, accelerate business processes, and react quickly to cha...

We are entering an era of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and enhancing the user experience of consumers of the services becomes an important part in designing and implementing SOA. But if you decide to develop rich clients, you'll be facing the dilemma - which...

Software AG is an independent provider of Business Infrastructure Software. Their 4,000 global customers achieve measurable business results by modernizing and automating their IT systems and rapidly building new systems and processes to meet growing business dema...

Development of service-oriented environments is an evolutionary process for organizations of all sizes. The architecture and design decisions made by system architects and developers will impact manageability and flexibility of service infrastructures. Efficient...

Web Age Solutions is a provider of technology mentoring and education to the Fortune 500. Their 'Preferred Vendor' status with the global leaders is a result of their highly progressive approach to knowledge transfer and relentless pursuit of customer satisfaction...

SOA is mostly associated to technologies such as BPEL, SCA and Web Services. But does SOA really imply these technologies? In this session we will show how you can use the service oriented approach while staying inside the Java world. jBPM is a powerful lightweigh...

Dramatic industry changes - including vendor consolidation, outsourcing and the growth of open source - highlight the need for a better way. When a SOA implementation costs too much, the culprit is often the old-fashioned, proprietary and expensive server or hub-b...

Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) can deliver tremendous value in flexibility, adaptability and cost savings. But SOA environments are complex by definition, with lots of loosely coupled components and a potentially vast combination of platforms, software, da...

Service orientation is one of the most popular trends of these recent years, but there are not any metrics on it. Hence you can not consume SOA in a project with a specific measuring. On the other side, Unified Process (especially RUP) has powerful abilities on su...

What is BPEL? What is XPDL? How are they different? What is the best use for each? What is BPMN, and why should I care? Which of these are primarily designed to help IT at a technical level, and which help an organization at a business level? Amongst the flurry of...

This session will investigate what is happening out there in the world of Mobility that uses Services, some are calling this MOA (Mobile Oriented Architecture). We will also discuss architectures, application design & considerations for mobility

Adoption of federated identity technology has been slower than the hype might indicate, despite the maturity of standards such as SAML 2.0 and Web Services Security. This presentation examines the distinct business and technical identity management issues in both ...

Depending on your perspective, SOA and virtualization are either synergistic or threaten increased complexity. This session will explain how implementing the right network architecture can make the most of both, promoting agility and reducing complexity. 'Service ...

Once upon a time, data modeling played a central role in the process of developing applications. Thus far in the SOA era, there has been a heavy emphasis on process, and data has all-too-often been lost in the SOA shuffle. In this talk, we present a data model for ...

The success of SOA runs two ways. SOA serves as the catalyst for organizational change, yet an organization must be ready to embrace these new dimensions opened up by SOA. The latest survey data shows most organizations are just starting on their SOA journeys. Why...

Exploring the boundaries between the Enterprise and the Internet, this talk focuses on Architectural approaches from the service pattern, process pattern and event pattern to help SOA practitioners understand topics such as Web 2.0, AJAX, SaaS, Social Networks and...

Popular assumptions can often be dangerous. We will start by considering how the many unique architectural characteristics of SOA, such as loose-coupling, can actually be a two-edged sword affecting the requirements, nature and success of many important aspects of...

This session will illustrate how service-orientation brings about the ability for organizations to see changes in business processes reflected quickly in their business systems by discussing real-world applications of SOA as applied to supply-chain management.

The SOA Consortium announced that HP, a founding member of the SOA Consortium, has increased its support by becoming a Sponsor. The SOA Consortium is an advocacy group of end users, service providers and technology vendors committed to helping the Global 1000, maj...

Crosscheck Networks launched SOAPSimulator, a service simulation product for SOA developers and testers. SOAPSimulator enables SOA professionals to reduce project expense and duration and deliver interoperable and secure Service Oriented Architecture. SOAPSimula...

Ken Vollmer, a Forrester analyst who has assisted hundreds of clients in North America & Europe with their integration projects and is a thought leader in the space, joins SYS-CON's Jeremy Geelan and Russell Scherwin from Sterling Commerce on Tuesday April 15 to d...