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This Evaluation Centre provides information on service oriented architecture (SOA), web services and enterprise integration software:
1. Go to Strategy for an up-to-date overview of the service oriented architecture (SOA), web services and enterprise integration software market plus briefings from industry experts.
2. Go to Supplier Evaluation for service oriented architecture (SOA), web services and enterprise integration software Evaluation Reports which have been independently audited and checked for accuracy.
3. Go to Implementation for information about the remainder of the software lifecycle including articles by top consultancy firms.
4. Go to Service Centre if you need any other support or information on service oriented architecture (SOA), web services and enterprise integration software. The Evaluation Centre is here to help. |
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Call for clarity
Evaluation Centre's overview of the service oriented architecture (SOA), web services and enterprise integration software market...For many years, IT developers and system users have been searching for effective and efficient means of integrating their systems. Very often this results in a tangle of specially crafted interfaces and connectors.
There are issues with data format definition, operations timing and synchronisation, and more subtle problems with mismatches in semantic meaning. All this has made the provision of IT application support for rapidly evolving business processes both difficult and expensive.
In an effort to address these issues, suppliers have provided a range of solutions to make the integration process simpler and more manageable. However, the underlying problems of incompatibility still remain.
Service oriented architecture (SOA) has been heavily promoted in recent years as a solution to these issues. Based on standards such as XML, SOAP and the web services stack, an SOA is meant to provide a means of achieving the necessary agility and flexibility to support rapidly evolving business processes and changing business objectives and goals. The aim is to produce modular, re-usable and replaceable software applications. view in full >> |
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Making SOA pay
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After the initial hype, SOA investments have met with mixed success. The only way to reap the promised rewards is to get back to project basics, says PA Consulting’s Paul Heaviside.
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Silver lining
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Far from being fuzzy and grey, cloud computing has real potential for software integration, argues Graham Oakes.
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Driven by need
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With SOA projects, it’s vital to focus closely on the expected results, says Shantanu Bhattacharya of Siemens Information Systems. This helps you to avoid getting distracted by the deluge of products, and considerably increases your chances of success.
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Enterprise architecture workshop, 7-8 July London
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A good enterprise architecture supports agility and flexibility by reflecting business change in an enterprise's organisation, processes, systems, data and project portfolio. It is a reference point against which all business and system requirements – existing and future – can be assessed and evaluated. To register, click below.
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