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...
He announced SAP Discovery System, a collection of software components meant as a "starting point" for a services-oriented architecture (SOA), a system design meant to make SAP's applications more modular and flexible.
Few City bosses have heard of the tech industry's latest three-letter acronym, SOA (service-oriented architecture). Just one in 10 City department chiefs has heard of SOA, lagging well behind their German counterparts - 32 per cent of whom are in...
He says: "Composite applications are a step beyond portals which just gather together information. More recently a development of the enterprise portal concept has been found in so-called composite applications.
And there was me believing that SOA was all about creating discrete pieces of reusable functions that could be put together as composite applications. Now I know that Microsoft does understand the composite application approach to SOA but it doesn...
Right now it is focusing attention on the benefits of SOA as a way of extending core functionality into what it calls composite applications. SAP has announced it plans to transition all customers to its new Enterprise Support offering from 1...