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SOA World Magazine News Desk
SOA World Magazine News Desk (formerly Web Services Journal) trawls the world of distributed computing and SOA-related developments for the latest word on technologies, standards, products, and services and brings key information to you in a timely and convenient summary form.

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Digital Identity and Service-Oriented Architecture - Hope and Glory
Adoption of federated identity technology has been slower than the hype might indicate, despite the maturity of standards such as SAML 2.0 and Web Services Security. This presentation examines the distinct business and technical identity management issues in both ...
A Little SOA Goes A Long Way
Many organizations make the faulty assumption that SOA is a panacea that can, and should be, applied to every situation. The reality is that service orientation is not the right answer for every scenario. The expense of service orientation cannot always be recoupe...
Open Source Penetration and Use in SOA Deployments
Open source has made significant inroads into middleware deployments in the enterprise. More and more, open source is being used to deliver the benefits of SOA and open source to the enterprise. There are many custom Enterprise Service Bus deployments waiting to be ...
Data Services Modeling: Data Modeling in the SOA Age
Once upon a time data modeling played a central role in the process of developing applications. Thus far in the SOA era, there has been a heavy emphasis on process, and data has all-too-often been lost in the SOA shuffle. In this talk, we present a data model for ...
Facelift Your SOA with Rich Internet Applications
We are entering an era of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and enhancing the user experience of consumers of the services becomes an important part in designing and implementing SOA. But if you decide to develop rich clients, you'll be facing the dilemma - which...
A Social Registry - Bridging Technology and Community for SOA
SOA is about people as much as technology. This talk will demonstrate how adding a layer of social (or 'Web 2.0') features - things like tags, comments and syndication feeds - to your SOA infrastructure can provide fertile ground to help grow a vibrant and connect...
Web Service Virtualization for SOA Runtime Governance and Control
Managing Web Services in production is no easy task. Ensuring that services follow corporate security and SOA governance requirements, monitoring compliance with individual SLAs, preventing one client from degrading the performance of others and ensuring services ...
mobilkom austria group Speeds Entry Into Emerging Markets Using TIBCO SOA
TIBCO announced that mobilkom austria group (mag) set a new benchmark for the mobile phone sector, establishing mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) covering Serbia and Macedonia in just six months using an enterprise service bus based on TIBCO software. The...
SOA Management Fundamentals and Best Practices
Development of service-oriented environments is an evolutionary process for organizations of all sizes. The architecture and design decisions made by system architects and developers will impact manageability and flexibility of service infrastructures. Efficient...
A Lightweight Approach to SOA and BPM in Java Using jBPM
SOA is mostly associated with technologies such as BPEL, SCA and Web Services. But does SOA really imply these technologies? In this session we will show how you can use the service oriented approach while staying inside the Java world. jBPM is a powerful lightwei...
On the Wireless Fringes of SOA
This session will investigate what is happening out there in the world of Mobility that uses Services, some are calling this MOA (Mobile Oriented Architecture). We will also discuss architectures, application design & considerations for mobility
Making Sense of the BPM & SOA Standards Alphabet Soup
What is BPEL? What is XPDL? How are they different? What is the best use for each? What is BPMN, and why should I care? Which of these are primarily designed to help IT at a technical level, and which help an organization at a business level? Amongst the flurry of...
Service Oriented Unified Process
Service orientation is one of the most popular trends of these recent years, but there are not any metrics on it. Hence you can not consume SOA in a project with a specific measuring. On the other side, Unified Process (especially RUP) has powerful abilities on su...
CEP - the Secret Weapon for SOA Application Performance Management
Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) can deliver tremendous value in flexibility, adaptability and cost savings. But SOA environments are complex by definition, with lots of loosely coupled components and a potentially vast combination of platforms, software, da...
The Business Imperative for Service-Oriented Supply-Chain Management
This session will illustrate how service-orientation brings about the ability for organizations to see changes in business processes reflected quickly in their business systems by discussing real-world applications of SOA as applied to supply-chain management.
The End of Middleware As You Know It
Dramatic industry changes - including vendor consolidation, outsourcing and the growth of open source - highlight the need for a better way. When a SOA implementation costs too much, the culprit is often the old-fashioned, proprietary and expensive server or hub-b...
Where We Are and Where We Need to Be With SOA?
The success of SOA runs two ways. SOA serves as the catalyst for organizational change, yet an organization must be ready to embrace these new dimensions opened up by SOA. The latest survey data shows most organizations are just starting on their SOA journeys. Why...
SOA and the Internet: An Architectural View
Exploring the boundaries between the Enterprise and the Internet, this talk focuses on Architectural approaches from the service pattern, process pattern and event pattern to help SOA practitioners understand topics such as Web 2.0, AJAX, SaaS, Social Networks and...
Implementing a Highly Distributed, Real-time Data-critical SOA Application
SOA implementations are increasingly reliant on streams of data that are time-critical, reliably delivered and sourced from mixed infrastructures in a highly distributed environment. Data formats, delivery mechanisms, fault tolerance capabilities and stateful se...
LINQ, Entity Framework and ADO.NET Entity Framework and Data Services for the Web
The new wave of Web applications are built on technologies such as AJAX and Microsoft Silverlight, which enable developers to build better, richer user experiences. These technologies bring a shift in how applications are organized, including a stronger separation...
WADL, URIs as Database Types, Tricks of the Architect's Trade
URIs are the lingua franca of the Web. They are in every Web page and every HTTP request. In a practical sense, they represent the realization of the Web. Without them, the Web would cease to exist. The situation is very different in the world of the RDBMS. Here, ...
Frontiers in Data Integration: Exploiting Heterogeneous Data
As SOA rapidly becomes the standard for enterprise architectures, the need for robust technologies for data access and data integration has become more critical then ever before. Due to the vital role that data plays both in business and systems operations, databa...
Data Services Layer and Its Role in SOA: Principles, Boundaries, Contexts and Possibilities
The ever-increasing movement towards implementing complex SOA-based applications has triggered a direct attention of leading industry researchers and practitioners to the subject of layering in such applications, in general, and the relationship between the fiel...
Patni Announces SOA Automated Framework for Insurance
Patni Computer Systems announced its customizable solution framework for the development or modernization of insurance business applications. Initially, the framework will support Patni's application components for Life New Business. Based on SOA (Service Orie...
Software AG Webinar: Business Infrastructure Software How SOA Helps Accelerate Success with BPM
BPM is being used by many organizations to gain new levels of visibility and control into their critical business processes. By leveraging a SOA architecture approach when implementing BPM, these organizations can accelerate project success, enabling rapid gains...
HCL Unveils SOA-Based Property & Casualty Insurance Underwriter Solution
HCL Technologies announced Penstock InsureWrite, an SOA-based policy underwriting system that automates the entire underwriting process, allowing insurance carriers to consolidate the multiple administration platforms used across their entire business. The highly ...
Volvofinans Drives New IT Strategy with Software AG SOA Technology
Software AG announced that Volvofinans has selected CentraSite as its enterprise platform for service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance and metadata management. CentraSite will serve as the foundation for the new IT infrastructure being implemented by Volvo...
Service Oriented Architecture: Making the Leap
It seems that Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) continues to be this year's hot buzzword, rather than a well-defined, meaningful and valuable part of the Enterprise Architecture landscape. Before the term fades away completely, perhaps we should agree what's v...
Avoiding a SOA Fiasco: An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure
While SOA can deliver dramatic cost reduction of an organization's business operations, it is a complex, multidisciplinary undertaking, and therefore introduces significant risk. This session presents a list of the most important risk factors and ways to mitigat...
New Perspectives on Governance, Management, and Industry Standards in the Service-Oriented Enterprise
Popular assumptions can often be dangerous. We will start by considering how the many unique architectural characteristics of SOA, such as loose-coupling, can actually be a two-edged sword affecting the requirements, nature and success of many important aspects of...
HP Stock Falls 6.5% After Spending $13.9BN to Acquire EDS
HP's acquisition of EDS for $13.9BN - announced today - will, the company claims, double sales in its services business (already $16.6BN in fiscal 2007), but that didn't stop HP shares tumbling today on the New York Stock Exchange. The price of $25 a share represe...
IBM Unveils Insurance Operations of the Future Powered By SOA
IBM announced two new advances in the insurance industry - a solution for improving operational efficiency and a framework for process acceleration - that are designed to help insurance providers lower costs and increase customer satisfaction by handling core proc...
SOA Software Acquires LogicLibrary
SOA Software announced that it has acquired LogicLibrary, a SOA Repository and Governance vendor. This acquisition combines two recognized companies, creating a dominant SOA Governance company with an impressive customer base. SOA Software is positioned by Gartne...
HP Launches New Versions Of SOA Testing Products
HP has introduced enhanced quality and management software designed to meet new requirements for mainstream deployment of service-oriented architectures (SOA) by businesses. To make sure that services meet all functional and performance objectives and are ready ...
ParAccel Announces OEM Relationship with IBM
ParAccel announced it has entered into an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with IBM. Under the terms of the agreement, ParAccel will embed IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture within the ParAccel Analytic Database, providing ParAccel customers with se...
SOA Infrastructure Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2008 to 2014
Research and Markets has announced the addition of 'Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) Infrastructure Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2008 to 2014' to their offering. According to the report, IBM is the de-facto industry standard market leader in SOA. ...
Aras Delivers Version 9 of Advanced Model-Based SOA for Enerprise PLM
Aras announced the availability of Version 9 of the Aras Innovator suite of model-based service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions for enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Version 9 delivers model-based SOA for PLM and includes single-instance multi...
Skyway Software Launches SOA Developer Contest at JavaOne
Skyway Software, announced a SOA developer contest. The SOA design and delivery solutions provider announced the contest with a prize of a $2500 gas card for the winner. The company feels that the basics are very easy. The winner would also get a copy of the Skywa...
Micro Focus Upgrades SOA Express for IBM CICS
Micro Focus announced the availability of SOA Express 8.0. The new version adds support for direct deployment into IBM's Customer Information Control System (CICS), enabling users to accelerate the deployment of Web services by reusing their existing CICS TS mai...
Forum Systems Launches FS Sentry 7.1 SOA Gateway
Forum Systems announced the availability of FS Sentry 7.1, the SOA Gateway product. FS Sentry 7.1 enables rapid integration within a SOA without compromising security. FS Sentry 7.1 provides SOA professionals the ability to virtualize and centralize disparate se...

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