It advertises reuse, one of the claims of object oriented programming. We know, for example, that one of the biggest obstacles to reuse is nothing to do with software technology. We are now told that service oriented architecture (SOA) is an...
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. IBM has come up with a consultancy approach called the component-based business model (CBM).
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...
PAC Germany MD, Christophe Châlons, told silicon.com outsourcing is a "normal component of any IT strategy now", and said outsourcing revenue grew by between five and 10 per cent across Europe during 2006.
The SOA vision allows us to reuse them. Andrew Ling, system architect at the Tote, said the component-based approach is initially a challenge for developers and advised other companies going down the SOA route to make sure they first agree on the...
When individual countries are analysed, just 26 per cent of German organisations implementing full SOA deployments are using these tools. In the UK, 70 per cent of those deploying an SOA use such testing tools.