A retail supplier seizes opportunity with infrastructure built for change, using open source and service-oriented architecture.

Plug and play makes Dematic's rip and replace, legacy systems history. Instead, the company turned to service-oriented architecture and ITIL.

The winning solution in the case study contest sponsored by the SOA Consortium and CIO magazine provided integrated business solutions using existing applications and legacy systems. It reduced the data and logic redundancy. The architecture provided unlimited scalability to meet current and future needs with only a small incremental cost. And it required a huge number of business partners collaborating to pull the whole thing off. Whew! Learn how they did it.

OppenheimerFunds learned at least two lessons in its deployment of service-oriented architecture: Let business drive technology instead of the reverse, and switch to Agile development processes early.

Just about every educational toy that Leapfrog will release in 2008 will be Web-enabled. Learn how the company is leveraging the Internet to share information between teachers, parents and children by building a service-oriented architecture the old fashioned way: Fast. One reason for its success: open-source tools and Agile methodology.

Qualcomm needed to improve its IT service and flexibility. Using new development practices, service-oriented architecture and Tibco tools, the telecom company supercharged its customer provisioning. In doing so, it also improved the software development team's agility and saved half a million dollars in the IT annual budget.

Its CEO's vision for Service-now.com for the startup's underlying architecture was that the software must be "simple, approachable, configurable, and easy to integrate" and had to be as "restless and stateless as possible." Translation: He turned to service-oriented architecture and SaaS.

Mutual fund company's virtualization plans include x86 and high-end RISC servers

The aerospace giant used SharePoint and has deployed it to a small test group. Lockheed plans to go enterprise wide once the social software tools mature more during the next year.

Functional testing used to take months and it kept line-of-business personnel from helping banking customers. After deploying test automation software, Arizona Federal has a better process in place, an impressive ROI and more time to service the credit union's customers.