It advertises reuse, one of the claims of object oriented programming. We know, for example, that one of the biggest obstacles to reuse is nothing to do with software technology. We are now told that service oriented architecture (SOA) is an...
Users need to start to move towards a SOA-capable environment, looking towards service reuse, loose coupling of services and service virtualisation. We need a solution where if, for instance, a customer gets in touch via the web, the service that...
Think finance and insurance companies, major retail organisations and telecommunications companies - all of these are implementing SOA and have the same issues about needing to reuse existing investments, and avoid the 'silo' implementations of...
There is a worry at board level that SOA is about new technology and new spend rather than leveraging what organisations already have and improving process, added James. Boardrooms are being blinded by the alphabet soup that surrounds service...
Many others who have moved towards an SOA have replaced hard-coded connectivity with hard-linked SOA connectivity, minimising the capabilities for component reuse and business flexibility. SOA is an evolutionary approach that does not require a rip...
And many companies believe the key to this has something to do with the IT industry's latest hot concepts, service-oriented architecture (SOA). And it's not just the Indian services companies that are homing in on this - the big multinationals are...