The German software giant says the deal will help it enlarge the Master Data Management feature of its NetWeaver product. Master Data Management is a component of NetWeaver designed to ensure that any price changes entered into a system are...
OASIS has started a committee that will seek to provide guidance on SOAs. The committee, announced on Tuesday, will create a reference model for SOAs, that will seek to improve the understanding of them.
And the manager who adheres to software brand loyalty blindly runs a terrible risk with a company's most critical assets. Anything less places your company's greatest assets at risk! Don't settle for "leveraging our existing assets," or...
This will support government plans for biometric passports, which are a major building block for its controversial ID card plans. Its annual report reveals the agency is working on a "complete technology refresh" due for completion next year...
SOA is an evolutionary approach that does not require a rip-and-replace of infrastructure and applications but does generally require buy-in from the business to gain the major benefits, such as functional component reuse, efficient use of assets...
But this doesn't mean there will be no need for techies, as Ray points out: "If we are going to asset-based implementation somebody will have to build those assets so we will need programmers. And many companies believe the key to this has...