Vendors have yet to learn how to communicate the value of a service-oriented architecture, or SOA, to business types, says Quocirca's Clive Longbottom. Microsoft's SOA story is a key part of its future strategy, both in how it will approach the...
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...
Businesses are gearing up to adopt service-oriented architecture (SOA), citing tangible benefits resulting from a more agile and responsive IT infrastructure. Two-thirds of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel said they have already moved...
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...
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 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...