SOA methodologies were put to work for a range of jobs in 2008, from speeding up mergers to mainframe/legacy integration with customer systems to helping prevent black holes.

Although SOA is often thought of as synonymous with Web services architecture (WSA), WSA is just one example of an architecture embodying these principles.

You have to hand it to some organizations, they are indeed thinking proactively around SOA. Case is point is the "Government of Canada Service Oriented Architecture Strategy - Statement of ...

There’s no question SOA is here to stay. In fact, all of cloud computing is fundamentally based on SOA. The same is true of today’s digital architectures – scratch the surface and you’ll ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is one of the most discussed topics in the information systems (IS) discipline. While most computer scientists agree that the service-oriented paradigm has clear ...

Web-oriented architecture (WOA), a descriptive term for a subset of service- oriented architecture (SOA), has recently arisen as the next buzz-phrase to help further confuse the IT architect.

The realities of project deadlines, team skills, and tight budgets mean that building a Web services SOA (service-oriented architecture) is less about choosing a technology than it is about ...

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a somewhat disappointing technology buzzword from the last decade, associated with expensive and heavyweight technology that does not provide as much of a ...

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 ...