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 ...

As IT organizations (ITOs) globally span their value chains across governments and cultures, service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides valuable technical and business principles for success. We ...

An interview with IBMers Robert Duffner, Doug Wilson, and Fernando Salazar on SOA and its relevance to the IBM Workplace product family: How do you think SOA is going to shape the future of the ...

The evolution of software architecture is contributing to increasing energy consumption.

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The IT industry is notorious for pushing the next big thing, and for several years now the primary object of its hype has been SOA, or “service-oriented architecture.” The idea behind this concept is ...

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The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. Instead of building monolithic applications for each department, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) organizes ...

Designing our applications as small independent units is the first step towards building a modern infrastructure that is nimble, agile and scalable. Legacy systems still form the backbone of many ...

Once, during a tour of a modern auto factory, Eric Newcomer was startled to come upon an aging VAX — the original minicomputer — controlling some machinery. “It was sitting on the assembly line ...