SOA projects are constantly beset by clashing business and technical agendas. Perhaps it's time to pull out the enterprise architect's best tool for addressing these conflicts: the Zachman Framework.

What do enterprise architecture, virtualization, security, business intelligence, and organizational culture have in common with each other and with SOA? If you answered “very little to nothing at all ...

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Is it time to fold SOA into Enterprise Architecture (EA)? Is there even really any fundamental difference between SOA, EA, and for that matter, BPM (business process management)? That's the question ...

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Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an approach for abstracting enterprise software capabilities as reusable services in order to support more flexible business processes and ideally, more agile ...

The benefits of the service-oriented architecture are widely touted: reduced integration costs, greater asset reuse, and the ability for IT to respond more quickly to changing business and regulatory ...

Enterprise service oriented architecture (SOA), or, according to SAP, enterprise services architecture (ESA) took center stage in Orlando Tuesday during the SAPPHIRE '06 afternoon keynotes, delivered ...

An interesting phenomenon is becoming apparent in the service-oriented architecture products space, and it is related to the growing gap between longtime vendors such as Tibco and Oracle and newer ...

SAP SOA is now a mainstream architectural strategy being followed by SAP customers for providing future proof integration to SAP and non-SAP systems. However, customers are not clear on the SAP SOA ...

Legacyisn’t planned — it just happens. For many public-sector organizations, the challenges of operating with legacy systems are all too familiar. Legacy environments are expensive and time-consuming ...

Want to know what the software developer of the future will look like? Find a bricklayer. Jeff Barr, a Web services evangelist at Amazon. com, says as technologies converge—including the alphabet soup ...