For Web services to succeed in extending the remarkably successful "document" Web into a "trusted business services" Web that reliably spans the globe, designers must apply service-oriented security ...

Organizations often are challenged to get the most value out of their service-oriented systems. Whether they are implementing an enterprise application integration (EAI) solution or developing a ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) emerged in the early part of this century as an evolution of distributed computing. Before SOA, services were understood as the end result of the application ...

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 agile ...

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A software developers' work in complex enterprise application environments usually involves spending many hours maintaining existing applications, time that could be spent building new and innovative ...

This analyst report from Macehiter Ward-Dutton explores the various perspectives tied up with the question of what constitutes an IT service and shows how to avoid the risks of missing the real point ...

Legacyisn’t planned — it just happens. For many public-sector organizations, the challenges of operating with legacy systems are all too familiar. Legacy environments are expensive and time-consuming ...

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Editor’s Note: Angela Rouelle is CIO of the Vermont Agency of Human Services. Dave McCurley is global managing director of Accenture Software, Health and Public Service. Tony Dicuffa is ...