http://www.itworld.com/taxonomy/term/661/all xx http://www.itworld.com/soa/69839/building-architecture-soa-policy-management Even though certain products have "policy management" in their names, getting your infrastructure set for SOA policy should start not by evaluating products, but rather by understanding the major functions required for effective policy management and how they work together. http://www.itworld.com/soa/69839/building-architecture-soa-policy-management#comments SOA Feature architecture Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:12:09 -0400 ITworld staff 69839 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/soa/67699/soa-security-how-irish-luck-went-long-way The EBS Building Society, one of Ireland's largest financial services companies, wanted SOA for its ability to quickly model (and change) business processes. And it was IT Head David Yeates' responsibility to secure the resulting architecture. Here, he explains the process his company took to achieve secure SOA. http://www.itworld.com/soa/67699/soa-security-how-irish-luck-went-long-way#comments Security SOA Case study architecture Mon, 11 May 2009 09:53:42 -0400 ITworld staff 67699 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/soa/67695/get-soa-policy-management-right IT leaders must understand the general characteristics of the SOA policy life cycle. This will help you to watch over critical control points and organizational relationships. Here's some practical advice from Forrester Research SOA expert Randy Heffner. http://www.itworld.com/soa/67695/get-soa-policy-management-right#comments IT management/strategy SOA Opinion architecture Mon, 11 May 2009 09:42:33 -0400 ITworld staff 67695 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/soa/67582/using-open-source-soa-enterprise-deployment Download this new White Paper today! Open Source SOA architecture open source Thu, 07 May 2009 10:37:49 -0400 kbradshaw 67582 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/soa/66397/enterprise-soa-five-steps-next-frontier 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," then think again because each one of these can make or break your SOA implementation. http://www.itworld.com/soa/66397/enterprise-soa-five-steps-next-frontier#comments Business intelligence SOA Virtualization Opinion architecture Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:11:07 -0400 ITworld staff 66397 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/server-and-data-center/65778/data-grids-and-service-oriented-architecture Download this White Paper today! IT management/strategy Server and data center architecture Data Grids Oracle Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:26:34 -0400 sbuchanan 65778 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/soa/60092/soa-knowledge-gap Most enterprise employees outside of IT work for a team, in a department, in a division or some similar hierarchical structure. This pattern of organization has effectively served large corporations, governments, and militaries for a long time. But it can present challenges for SOA analysis when the IT solution requires input from representatives in all parts of the business. http://www.itworld.com/soa/60092/soa-knowledge-gap#comments SOA Opinion architecture Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:34:25 -0500 ITworld staff 60092 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/soa/55696/8-characteristics-successful-soa-implementations The SOA Consortium and CIO magazine recently announced the winners of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Case Study Competition. All of the winners successfully delivered business or mission value using an SOA approach -- and they all shared these 8 characteristics. http://www.itworld.com/soa/55696/8-characteristics-successful-soa-implementations#comments SOA Opinion architecture Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:17:18 -0400 ITworld staff 55696 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/soa/55436/oppenheimerfunds-gets-roi-agile-soa OppenheimerFunds used to have a data entry problem. Address changes that customers made on its website had to be manually re-entered into a variety of back-end systems before they went into effect. The company had a choice: to solve this one immediate problem, or to invest a little more time and money in order to plan a little bit further ahead. http://www.itworld.com/soa/55436/oppenheimerfunds-gets-roi-agile-soa#comments Networking SOA Feature architecture Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:55:05 -0400 ITworld staff 55436 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/soa/54584/sterling-example-soa Last week I promised to move from dissertation to illumination by shining a light on some sterling examples of real-world SOAs. In each case, the IT professionals leading these initiatives understood from the get-go that SOA is more about business processes than services. http://www.itworld.com/soa/54584/sterling-example-soa#comments SOA Opinion architecture Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:42:40 -0400 ITworld staff 54584 at http://www.itworld.com