The note, from research firm ZapThink, says that with the appearance of more applications based on web services - a programming method and set of standards specifically designed to link disparate systems - services companies will start shifting to...
Businesses are gearing up to adopt service-oriented architecture (SOA), citing tangible benefits resulting from a more agile and responsive IT infrastructure. This follows a benchmarking report from Aberdeen Group this week that said 90 per cent of...
Once customers adopt this "business process platform", they will be able to more quickly develop innovative software, Agassi said. He announced SAP Discovery System, a collection of software components meant as a "starting point" for a services...
From a sample size of 1,500 respondents representing a mixture of technical and business people, more than 30 per cent said they have absolutely no knowledge of what SOA or service-oriented architecture means.
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) represents a huge shift in the way we approach computing. The Naked CIO: Madness in the method Closer analysis shows that across all three countries, less than half of organisations are using testing tools such...
Through referring to Microsoft's functional repository - its own version of a Universal Description Discovery and Integration engine - a model can easily be constructed that defines the functions that a composite application will need, as well as...