Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Wed, May 06, 2009 - From a security perspective, service oriented architecture (SOA) is a tricky thing. It's not hard for bad guys to compromise it with SQL injection, capture-replay and XML denial-of-service attacks, which they can ultimately use to bust through walls around a company database.

Wed, November 19, 2008 - A retail supplier seizes opportunity with infrastructure built for change, using open source and service-oriented architecture.

Tue, November 11, 2008 - Plug and play makes Dematic's rip and replace, legacy systems history. Instead, the company turned to service-oriented architecture and ITIL.

Tue, September 30, 2008 - 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.

Fri, September 26, 2008 - 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.

Wed, September 24, 2008 - 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.

Mon, September 15, 2008 - 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.

Wed, September 10, 2008 - 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.