Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) will turn into another "useless fashion" unless vendors get better at explaining its potential to improve the alignment of IT and business. Companies need more clarity on the opportunities and challenges...
The high costs of migrating to a service-oriented architecture (SOA) can eat up 40 per cent of an organisation's IT budget, according to a new report by the Aberdeen Group. SOA is essentially a web services-based IT infrastructure based around...
British Airways (BA) is taking its first steps with service-oriented architecture (SOA) but warned that wider use could still be up to five years away. Speaking at BA's annual 'IT Fair' at the airline's Waterside headquarters near Heathrow this...
Service-orientated architecture (SOA) technologies could open up a security-based can of worms as they begin to move beyond the walls of individual businesses, according to one analyst house. The analyst house warned there is concern SOA might open...
As more companies adopt SOA, their requirements will become increasingly complex - meaning they will require extra help to manage significant organisational changes, according to analyst house IDC. This is because implementing SOA is not just about...
Such findings are a telling insight into the ways open source can be seen as a threat by large software companies such as IBM, according to Dave Rosenberg, chief executive of open source start-up MuleSource.