According to XAware founder Kirstan Vandersluis, developers of rich Internet applications (RIAs) should shift their thinking toward service orientation to give their apps the benefits of reusability ...

The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. Instead of building monolithic applications for each department, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) organizes ...

on Thursday its prediction that such architectures will become the dominant designs for networked business systems by 2006. And analysts at Gartner are predicting that service-oriented architectures ...

We are entering a new phase of IT where organizations must orient delivery of service across the entire IT supply chain to behave and operate in a real time manner. Those organizations that don’t ...

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Happy New Year, everyone. Another year wraps up, and we now enter a new decade (which technically begins January 1, 2011). The practice of service oriented architecture has been part of the business ...

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The operation of all business enterprises is guided by some overriding, decision-making philosophy. In today's market a "customer orientation" philosophy has been widely adopted. This philosophy can ...

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an approach for abstracting enterprise software capabilities as reusable services in order to support more flexible business processes and ideally, more agile ...