Rogue Wave announced the results of a global survey of software developers to determine the role C++-based applications will play in their future IT plans. Given that service-oriented architecture (SOA) spending is expected to grow 60 percent per year, Rogue Wav...

MuleSource announced the availability for download of Mule RESTpack. More and more developers are now building distributed applications based on the underlying software architecture of the Web, known as representational state transfer (REST). Providing a way to crea...

AgilePath announced the appointment of two technology executives to its management team. Mr. Umesh Vemuri has joined AgilePath Corporation as Chief Technology Officer for its Federal Government business unit. In this role, Mr. Vemuri will spearhead AgilePath's ove...

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...

SOALogix announced the availability of its Confero EPM (Enterprise Project Management) integration appliance. Encapsulating best-practices gained from hundreds of projects, Confero EPM solves pressing project management-related business and IT challenges associa...

IDV Solutions announced that a new, independent research report by ZapThink discusses IDV Solutions location-based enterprise mashup software and its ability to enable users to flexibly mash up data important to an organization, increasing the value of their SOA initiatives.

According to a recent report published by The 451 Group, 2009 is the year that will see attention on the delivery to mobile devices of business intelligence from enterprise applications - particularly those utilizing the 'service-oriented' software architecture ...

Enough national standards bodies, so reports circulating the Web today are saying, changed their vote at the last minute, including Norway, Denmark, and the UK, to ensure that Microsoft's OOXML is likely to be approved today by ISO - the International Organization for Standardization.

BEA Systems announced that it was selected by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) to join the solution delivery team for the Defense Information Systems Agency's (DISA) Service-Oriented Architecture Foundation (SOAF) program. CSC, in partnership with BEA, Raythe...

BEA Systems announced that Procter & Gamble implemented a service-oriented architecture (SOA) powered by BEA technologies. The SOA powers a new on-line workspace at Procter & Gamble. It has been designed to help improve and support decision making while increasi...

AmberPoint announced that Yphise ranked AmberPoint SOA Management System the best overall 'Service Monitoring and Management (SMM)' solution. Yphise conducted a hands-on review of runtime SOA governance solutions from AmberPoint, Actional, SOA Software and TIBCO to ...

Woolworths has invested further in its supply chain redevelopment program by adding sophisticated Business Process Management (BPM) capabilities. Woolworths is also investing in an SOA registry and governance platform to underpin its overall corporate move towards...

Sonoa Systems announced that it is integrating with products from the BEA AquaLogic family to help optimize, accelerate and improve visibility and performance in distributed and heterogeneous environments. Sonoa's ServiceNet appliance is designed to accelerate t...

TenFold announced that it has signed a Merger Agreement to be acquired by Versata Enterprises. Under the terms of the agreement, TenFold stockholders will receive $0.04 in cash for each share of TenFold common stock, and convertible preferred stock on an as-conver...

Kana Software and IBM announced that the two companies are significantly expanding their Global Strategic Alliance agreement. Kana and IBM will jointly market sell and support Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based customer service solutions built on open tec...

Bostech Corporation announced the availability of ETL functionality within the latest release of its enterprise service bus, ChainBuilder ESB 1.2. Designed to graphically incorporate database content into a service-oriented architecture, the new ETL functionalit...

DataDirect Technologies outlined its plans to support the emerging Service Data Objects (SDO) standard within its family of data connectivity and mainframe integration products. The SDO standard, developed by a diverse group of technology vendors participating i...

Some of the best attended sessions at a packed AJAXWorld involved SOA. Scott Kirkwood's 'AJAX Brings SOA to the User' session was crowded on Day One, as was Kurt Cagle's session on 'Data and Syndicated Oriented Architecture (SynOA),' and Ian Tomlin's session 'Code...

52 percent of IT professionals are unaware of the risks associated with implementing a Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) system and certification solution company, according to research out today from AppLabs. SOA has been earmarked in the industry as a develo...

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, a unit of GE Enterprise Solutions, announced its new software solution, Proficy Workflow, powered by Proficy SOA (Service Oriented Architecture). Proficy Workflow provides an industrial Business Process Management (BPM) solution tha...

AppLabs has announced the results of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) survey it undertook to showcase the growing interest in SOA adoption across the IT industry. The research sampled over 100 IT professionals from Fortune 500 companies, focused on four key a...

Orchestra Networks announced the launch and availability of its EBX Data Services. This new feature of the EBX.Platform allows organizations a greater opportunity for integrating their MDM in Service Oriented Architectures. EBX.Platform is a generic, cross-domai...

Software AG announced that 3Com has implemented a real-time business infrastructure for its internal operations using the webMethods Suite from Software AG. By embracing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to drive its business integration strategy, the technolo...

'Xcalia has one of the most mature implementations of these technologies on the market,' said John Goodson, vice president and general manager of DataDirect Technologies, as Progress Software announced that its recent acquisition, Xcalia, a leader in the developme...

SOA Software announced that it has certified IBM WebSphere Message Broker as a Governed Service Platform. This certification allows customers to use IBM WebSphere Message Broker to implement and enforce governance policies for enterprise Web services providing rep...

OpenSpan announced the OpenSpan Platform SOA Desktop Edition, a new version of its flagship product that accelerates the realization of SOA strategies by enabling the rapid integration of desktop, legacy, virtualized and rich Internet applications and the expressi...

AmberPoint announced that Yphise ranked AmberPoint SOA Management System the best overall 'Service Monitoring and Management (SMM)' solution. Yphise conducted a hands-on review of runtime SOA governance solutions from AmberPoint, Actional, SOA Software and TIBCO to ...

IONA announced a new integration testing solution. The Interface Simulation and Testing Framework (ISTF), which is part of IONA's Artix advanced SOA infrastructure suite, allows IT developers to test application integration scenarios early in the development lif...

SoftLayer has advanced its backend systems, upgrading its fully redundant data warehouse storage arrays and adding an application layer processing cluster to enable a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The data warehouse expansion included the installation of mu...

KANA Software and IBM announced that the two companies are expanding their Global Strategic Alliance agreement. KANA and IBM will jointly market, sell and support Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based customer service solutions built on open technologies from both companies.

Highdeal announced that Mobile Satellite Ventures has chosen the Highdeal Transactive advanced billing solution for its next-generation network. The solution is part of an innovative infrastructure designed to meet the needs of MSV's wholesale-based business model...

S4i Systems unveiled a new Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) capability in S4i Express - its electronic document management system for IBM System i computers. With this new feature, S4i has satisfied IBM's business and technical requirements for acceptance into ...

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...

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...

SOA is mostly associated to 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 lightweigh...

Open source has made signficant 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 ...

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...

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...

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...

While everyone wants to do SOA right the first time, the typical results are not always stellar. Indeed, the pitfalls of building any complex architecture, including SOA, are something that the SOA practitioners must contend with, and most are ill-equipped. Howeve...