Whether you're an SOA skeptic, cynic, or advocate, there's always confusion around many of the terms and definitions used within this space. As one reader wryly added to my last post on SOA's greatest ...

A couple of surveys I have run across seem to say the same thing -- everyone agrees that SOA can be a good thing, but few feel they can muster up the resources and political will to push the concept ...

In a new survey SOA is clearly growing rapidly. "Enterprises are bullish on the concept of service-oriented architecture (SOA), and adoption is expected to double over the next two years, according to ...

Even its proponents don't agree on a single SOA vision yet, but it's coming to your shop eventually Since about 2003, service-oriented architecture (SOA) has been touted as the network-based, ...

The benefits of the service-oriented architecture are widely touted: reduced integration costs, greater asset reuse, and the ability for IT to respond more quickly to changing business and regulatory ...

In this article, we examine how security applies to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Before we discuss security for SOA, lets take a step back and examine what SOA is. SOA is an architectural ...

Companies can save up to $53 billion in IT spending over the next five years by investing in service-oriented architecture, according to a new benchmark report from Aberdeen Group. Yet the research, ...

We are at a very important juncture in the evolution of service-oriented architecture. An incredibly important issue right now is whether we are going to win broad acceptance and deep penetration, or ...

Igor Khurgin and Saurabh Verma of Acumen Solutions on why your enterprise needs a SOA governance framework before lawlessness takes over Adopting services oriented architecture (SOA) in your ...

Cloud computing may have overtaken SOA as the trendy technology term du jour, but the two concepts can be paired to bolster service deployments, industry experts say. With cloud computing, enterprises ...