RSSA nonprofit organization uses SOA to knit together resources from SaaS vendors and XAware to match military veterans with employment opportunities.
Move will cut costs, improve reliability and avoid duplication.
The media company discovered a weakness in developing Web services and SOA applications: the ability to monitor and track transactions to locate system failures. In solving its technology problem, the IT team also improved communication between operations and development. And isn't that a happy story?
Migrating United's and Lufthansa's reservation system to an updated architecture using SOA is a huge undertaking that's critical to the company's success. Here's how United is managing the changes the new system will create for the companies and partners... and not just in technology.
The airport's fifth terminal building, due to open in March, should go some way to reduce the strain on Heathrow. Says the CIO, BA has transformed its IT systems and cut operational costs in preparation, reveals CIO Paul Coby during a tour of the unfinished facility. The state-of-the-art terminal has cost BA and BAA £4.3bn to build and outfit, including a sophisticated baggage handling system.
Java application platform remains the basis.
Electronic parts distributor Avnet needed simpler connections to its customers—and among its internal systems. The solution: service orientation and a common data model.
As more companies look to adopt a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach for their IT systems, users who’ve already forged ahead with SOA recommend beginning modestly.SOA is an increasingly popular way for organizations to develop and manage their IT systems through reusable technologies and present information previously locked up in legacy applications as Web services."Start small. Pick a project that’s manageable ...
Dow Chemical’s CIO talks about…Service-oriented architecture: Before we can even begin to address the IT infrastructure, we need to understand the strategic plan for the company. We’re going to have lots of different business models, and at the same time we want to promote the concept of one Dow. So, on the front end, near the customer, we have to ...
A specialist mortgage trust manager in Australia, LM Investment Management, has completed a system upgrade that includes making the transition to service-oriented architecture (SOA).LM’s IT manager, Ben Fisher, said the goal is to centralize all IT processes by implementing InfoComp’s Composer Business Integration Server (CBIS).It will initially be used to generate bulk formatted documents based on XML data via InfoComp’s Composer ...
