April 2010

• April 30, 2010 30 Apr'10

  PatriotGrid

  PatriotGrid is a group of distributed computing projects whose goal is to identify new leads for vaccines or cures for agents known to be potential bioterrorism weapons.  Continue Reading

• April 30, 2010 30 Apr'10

  As SOA shops grow in size, repository managers become useful

  Following its launch of Policy Manager 6, SOA Software this month released Repository Manager 6.2, a tool that keeps track of services and other assets involved in software infrastructure. In a ...  Continue Reading

• April 29, 2010 29 Apr'10

  Roles are key when marking up master data for SOA

  When sharing master data across departments, disagreement can arise about definitions. To resolve issues, make sure a defintion can be marked up with roles and attributes.  Continue Reading

• April 28, 2010 28 Apr'10

  VMware and Salesforce.com move Java into SalesForce cloud computing

  A partnership between VMware and Salesforce.com will add Spring support to the Salesforce.com product line. The new offering is called VMforce.  Continue Reading

• April 27, 2010 27 Apr'10

  SOA and the Web of Semantics

  Technology winds blow oddly. The technology itself is always moving ahead at one rate and the terms we use to describe technology change at another. Terms can be important step rungs for technology ...  Continue Reading

• April 27, 2010 27 Apr'10

  Open source licenses explained: caveats and comparisons

  A few lines of open source code can change how you distribute your software. One expert discusses some common pitfalls of using open source code from different licenses.  Continue Reading

• April 26, 2010 26 Apr'10

  Data architect uses business rules and scorecards to keep MDM clean

  An enterprise data architect for a medical supply company used business rules and scorecards, along with a new tool, to clean up master data between three business units.  Continue Reading

• April 26, 2010 26 Apr'10

  MDM with SOA can improve metrics, but metrics are not the only concern

  SOA can improve speed and frequency in an MDM system, but good definitions are more important. Mergers make definitions tricky but are a good opportunity to overhaul MDM strategy.  Continue Reading

• April 23, 2010 23 Apr'10

  Deriving new insight from disparate data silos with an 'enterprise data cloud'

  Data infrastructure company Greenplum this month announced a major step toward its enterprise data cloud vision, the Chorus platform. The offering provides cloud-oriented features including ...  Continue Reading

• April 23, 2010 23 Apr'10

  MDM and SOA podcast series: Words of wisdom from two experts and a user

  Two experts and an end user discuss modern practices and trends in MDM.  Continue Reading

• April 22, 2010 22 Apr'10

  Insurance company simplifies testing with APM

  SafeAuto Insurance Company implemented Application Performance Management (APM) to catch bugs and speed up performance in its SOA.  Continue Reading

• April 21, 2010 21 Apr'10

  No Magic to hold its first user conference on modeling and enterprise architecture

  No Magic Inc., a vendor of modeling tools and services, recently announced that it will hold its first ever user conference November 7-10 in Fort Worth, Texas. The company intends No Magic World ...  Continue Reading

• April 21, 2010 21 Apr'10

  Enterprise Architecture Patterns Quick Guide

  In this quick guide, find resources and commentary to help you learn what patterns are and how to put them to use. Also, discover sample patterns to give you ideas about how to use patterns in your organization  Continue Reading

• April 19, 2010 19 Apr'10

  Travel transaction company modernizing to SOA with large IBM deal

  One of the world's largest travel transaction processing companies, Travelport, has begun a large-scale service-oriented architecture (SOA) modernization project and recently inked a multimillion dollar deal with IBM for a significant technological ...  Continue Reading

• April 19, 2010 19 Apr'10

  Open source software: a special report

  Once used for experimentation and in-house projects, open source software is now powering large enterprises. Find out why open source is now a trusted option at many companies.  Continue Reading

• April 14, 2010 14 Apr'10

  Open source SOA middleware growing in enterprise architecture amid hesitation

  Open source software is creeping into the enterprise climbing up the SOA stack. Read why using open source software has improved programming quality for developers at Digg.com.  Continue Reading

• April 14, 2010 14 Apr'10

  What is the future of open source software?

  The open source movement has changed the course of modern software development. Certainly, Linux has been the most prominent example so far, but there is far more to come. Open source continues to infiltrate mainstream development at an ever faster ...  Continue Reading

• April 14, 2010 14 Apr'10

  The New XProc Specification for XML Pipeline Processing

  XProc is a declarative language using XML for describing sequences of operations on XML documents. This tip looks at the capabilities which have been defined for XProc.  Continue Reading

• April 13, 2010 13 Apr'10

  VMware/SpringSource buys open source cloud message broker RabbitMQ

  The SpringSource division of VMware today announced the acquisition of Rabbit Technologies, an open source company in the U.K. specializing in enterprise messaging software. SpringSource says the ...  Continue Reading

• April 13, 2010 13 Apr'10

  OMG finalizes SoaML

  The Object Management Group (OMG) approved a final version of SoaML (short for Service-oriented architecture modeling language) at a meeting in Jacksonville, Florida, last month. SoaML, a profile ...  Continue Reading