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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Some of you may have tuned into the Shared Insights Webinar on "Marching Toward SOA: Does EA Lead the Band?" I can't find the archive of it, by the way. However, there is a good summary article here, ...

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 ...

WSO2 has entered the open source SOA (service-oriented architecture) field with a slate of veterans from Web services specifications, application server design and lightweight framework development.

At the Enterprise Architecture Conference (EAC) this week in New Orleans, as I stated in my last posting. So, what are the trends here? Not a whole lot other than the fact that the traditional EA ...

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 ...

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