'Xcalia has one of the most mature implementations of these technologies on the market,' said John Goodson, vice president and general manager of DataDirect Technologies, as Progress Software announced that its recent acquisition, Xcalia, a leader in the developme...

SOA Software announced that it has certified IBM WebSphere Message Broker as a Governed Service Platform. This certification allows customers to use IBM WebSphere Message Broker to implement and enforce governance policies for enterprise Web services providing rep...

OpenSpan announced the OpenSpan Platform SOA Desktop Edition, a new version of its flagship product that accelerates the realization of SOA strategies by enabling the rapid integration of desktop, legacy, virtualized and rich Internet applications and the expressi...

AmberPoint announced that Yphise ranked AmberPoint SOA Management System the best overall 'Service Monitoring and Management (SMM)' solution. Yphise conducted a hands-on review of runtime SOA governance solutions from AmberPoint, Actional, SOA Software and TIBCO to ...

IONA announced a new integration testing solution. The Interface Simulation and Testing Framework (ISTF), which is part of IONA's Artix advanced SOA infrastructure suite, allows IT developers to test application integration scenarios early in the development lif...

SoftLayer has advanced its backend systems, upgrading its fully redundant data warehouse storage arrays and adding an application layer processing cluster to enable a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The data warehouse expansion included the installation of mu...

KANA Software and IBM announced that the two companies are expanding their Global Strategic Alliance agreement. KANA and IBM will jointly market, sell and support Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based customer service solutions built on open technologies from both companies.

Highdeal announced that Mobile Satellite Ventures has chosen the Highdeal Transactive advanced billing solution for its next-generation network. The solution is part of an innovative infrastructure designed to meet the needs of MSV's wholesale-based business model...

S4i Systems unveiled a new Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) capability in S4i Express - its electronic document management system for IBM System i computers. With this new feature, S4i has satisfied IBM's business and technical requirements for acceptance into ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

While everyone wants to do SOA right the first time, the typical results are not always stellar. Indeed, the pitfalls of building any complex architecture, including SOA, are something that the SOA practitioners must contend with, and most are ill-equipped. Howeve...

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...

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...

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.

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...

It seems that Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) continues to be this year's hot buzzword, rather than a well-defined, meaningful and valuable part of the Enterprise Architecture landscape. Before the term fades away completely, perhaps we should agree what's v...

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 ...

Springboard Research reported that local system integrators and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) are playing a role in SOA vendors' ability to penetrate four major domestic markets in Asia. This is evident in the Chinese market that is dominated by local play...

Micro Focus announced that Title Guaranty of Hawaii has successfully incorporated a service oriented architecture (SOA) environment to join and enhance its existing systems and COBOL-based applications. Using Micro Focus Studio for COBOL Developers 4.0, which comb...

'There has been a lot of buzz around rich Web 2.0 applications, but they will not become mainstream until the next generation of web platforms emerge - fully integrated platforms that enable RIA + SOA.' That is the current state of the enterprise Web development u...

Project Insight recently integrated project budget information from its hosted service to the back-end accounting system for customer, R.W. Smith & Company, using Web Services APIs. Project Insight helps project teams like American Honda, Merrill Lynch, and Regist...

ILOG announced that Groupe Mutuel chose ILOG JRules to automate its claims management processes. ILOG JRules will be used as a core component of Groupe Mutuel's new service-oriented architecture (SOA). Groupe Mutuel comprises 14 insurance companies and provides ...

ABBYY announced Recognition Server 2.0, the next generation of its OCR and PDF conversion solution. Its compatibility with service-oriented architecture (SOA) through a Web Service interface, combined with seamless output to Microsoft SharePoint and document inp...

Software AG introduced the webMethods Application Modernization Suite as a comprehensive product suite for revitalizing and extending mainframe applications. The release fully leverages the company's global leadership in the service-oriented architecture (SOA) a...

Companies adopting service-oriented architecture (SOA) spent $1.4 million on software and services in 2007, according to a report released by AMR Research. 'The SOA Spending Report 2007-2008,' which surveyed IT executives from the United States, Germany, and China...

FINEOS Corporation announced its acceptance into the IBM SOA Specialty after successfully completing IBM's rigorous SOA technical and business requirements. With this achievement, FINEOS integrates with the IBM software and strategy for SOA and will also be list...

According to a new study from Aberdeen, comprehensive, consistent and proactive performance measurement and testing best maximize the business value of service-oriented architecture (SOA) investments. The new Aberdeen study found that 64% of Best-in-Class compan...

JBoss and iWay Software announced an agreement designed to bring a full range of information management capabilities to global organizations. The combined power of iWay Software's pre-built data and application connectors and JBoss' enterprise application platform...

SOA Software announced that it has certified the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform as a Governed Service Platform. Certified Governed Service Platform status means that customers can be confident that their platforms won't compromise the fidelity of the governance sys...

businessMart AG announced it has accelerated its entry into new business markets thanks to a new Web-based trading platform built on IBM's service oriented architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0 technology. Combining a flexible infrastructure with mashup technology, bus...