October 2007

October 31, 2007 31 Oct'07
Ajax-based wiki gets down to business

Startup delivers Ajax-based wiki collaboration applications to small and medium size businesses via Web services. Continue Reading
October 30, 2007 30 Oct'07
RIA with your SOA? Watch your business rules

At the Ajax Experience in Boston last week, I caught a presentation by Joshua Gertzen, primary architect at ThinWire, called "Dodging the Pitfalls of Enterprise Ajax Applications". Gertzen and ... Continue Reading
October 30, 2007 30 Oct'07
Avoiding pitfalls of SOA application performance management

Building composite applications inside an SOA creates a new set of performance issues, requiring a deep understanding of service interdependencies and how this changes application management and monitoring. Continue Reading

October 30, 2007 30 Oct'07
Microsoft's SOA vision: 'The model is the application'

Microsoft is unveiling Oslo, its SOA product roadmap, which includes model-driven development tools in Visual Studio to allow users to design and deploy composite applications without coding. Continue Reading
October 29, 2007 29 Oct'07
Looking for SOA worst practices

We've got a new reader contest at SearchSOA.com. It involves the very thing our readers tell us they most want to hear, yet it's what they least want to talk about. It's worst practices, which are ... Continue Reading
October 29, 2007 29 Oct'07
Contest: SOA the Hard Way

SearchSOA.com is holding a contest for SOA worst practices stories and we would like you to share your SOA story with us. Continue Reading
October 29, 2007 29 Oct'07
BPM portals

Sri Nagabhirava discusses the effectiveness of portals for business process management. Continue Reading
October 29, 2007 29 Oct'07
BEA customers face uncertain future as Oracle closes in

Expiration on Sunday of the original Oracle Corp. $6.7 billion offer for BEA Systems Inc. does not mean the deal is off, meaning BEA's SOA customers face an uncertain future, analysts say. Continue Reading
October 26, 2007 26 Oct'07
SOA management requires smart choices - Forrester

Architects have many choices when it comes to SOA management, which is still immature and blurred with SOA governance, advises Randy Heffner, vice president at Forrester Research. Continue Reading
October 25, 2007 25 Oct'07
Fast Infoset (FI)

Fast Infoset (FI) is a standard that can serve as an alternative to XML (Extensible Markup Language) document formatting... (Continued) Continue Reading

October 25, 2007 25 Oct'07
Enterprise Web 2.0, SOA linkage: Will lack of standards be a hindrance?

While the potential of blending SOA with Web 2.0 concepts is compelling, the lack of standards in this area could leave users stuck inside proprietary platform development. Continue Reading
October 25, 2007 25 Oct'07
SOA-based monitoring system targets energy conservation

Connectgaia, an SOA-based monitoring system that provides two-way real-time communication between electricity providers and their customers, promises to promote conservation and fight global warming. Continue Reading
October 24, 2007 24 Oct'07
SOA vendors beefing up BI offerings

BI brings SOA home to business users, who may be skeptical or uninformed about the value of service-orientation, which explains why SOA vendors are scrambling for BI technology, analysts say. Continue Reading
October 23, 2007 23 Oct'07
Why SOA makes sense for SMBs

It is common for small and midsize business to wait out technology bubbles. If a hot new technology bursts onto the scene, the SMBs don't immediately adopt it. Expensive and unproven technologies ... Continue Reading
October 22, 2007 22 Oct'07
SOA needs BPM, BI and Web 2.0 - Forrester

SOA needs a shot of B3 – BPM, BI and business rules – to create dynamic business applications that architects "design-for-people, build-for-change," says Forrester Research. Continue Reading
October 22, 2007 22 Oct'07
Business process policies

Sri Nagabhirava discusses two distinct policies and how they can affect change in business processes. Continue Reading
October 19, 2007 19 Oct'07
SearchSOA.com, what’s in a name?

Those of you who have been longtime SearchWebServices.com readers might have noted our recent name change to SearchSOA.com. The shift was inevitable and, being totally honest, we probably should ... Continue Reading
October 18, 2007 18 Oct'07
New ITIL v3 focuses on SOA

The new ITIL version 3 is important to everyone working on SOA because it provides best practices for developing, implementing and continually improving services, according to Forrester Research. Continue Reading
October 17, 2007 17 Oct'07
Burton cautiously optimistic about SCA for SOA

Despite some concerns that SCA may be the next CORBA, Burton Group concludes that organizations doing SOA projects may have to accept that vendor adoption of the spec is inevitable. Continue Reading
October 16, 2007 16 Oct'07
SOA vendor hype exceeds reality, analyst finds

Despite vendor hype around SOA, the reality among IT professionals is that the term is ill-defined and the benefits not clearly documented, according to an Info-Tech Research analyst. Continue Reading