Is SOA essentially "Software as a Service" contained within the enterprise walls? The analogy makes a great elevator speech, especially if one is hard-pressed to describe the philosophy of SOA to ...

Three issues that rise to the top fast when developing a service-oriented architecture are governance, quality, and management. In this article, part of a Network World Data Center series on SOA, ...

Software AG has built a global customer base over 35 years by being an early mover in a couple of major technology trends. The company introduced one of the first databases, Adabas, in the 1970s, a ...

Need help building your service-oriented architecture? Vendors stand ready with a slew of service options. Adopting a service-oriented architecture promises to transform rigid networks into flexible, ...

is the shape of distributed computing in the Internet Age. At the heart, SOA is a set of practical approaches for designing shareable, reusable services. It lets enterprise IT groups treat a ...

Matching up critical components in the SOA space, SOA Software, which provides SOA governance automation, said Monday it has acquired SOA repository and governance vendor LogicLibrary. The combination ...

The SOA (service-oriented architecture) marketplace has been a morass of vendor-speak, focused on selling software stacks instead of addressing the core issue, which is how to develop a cohesive ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Service-oriented architecture, the business software industry's oft-used buzzwords, could actually be paying off, at least for some companies. IBM on Tuesday reported second-quarter earnings that ...