Ireland's leading telco, Telecom Eireann, woke up to serious competition today as the country's Electricity Supply Board (ESB) set a timetable for its rival service. ESB, in partnership with BT, announced a $108m contract with Lucent Technologies...
This attempts to take the existing IT environment as a set of vertical silos (for example, CRM, ERP, SCM), then layer across the horizontal process needs of the business and therefore turn the intersects into components.
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...
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...
SAP says collaborative working through service oriented architecture (SOA) technology represents the future for businesses. And he added SOA has an important part to play in this. The entry ticket to manage these networks is SOA.