Features

Features

• BPEL trends update: We’ll always have orchestration

  BPEL’s role as Web services orchestrator seems assured, but the broader spotlight has moved to BPMN 2.0.  Continue Reading

• BPMN 2.0: Assessing a year of change

  The updated process modeling standard continues to evolve—as does the debate about its advantages and disadvantages.  Continue Reading

• PaaS learning guide

  Increased adoption of PaaS reveals its advantages and challenges. This guide offers a look at the latest PaaS developments.  Continue Reading

• No green fields for application integration

  Application integration efforts cannot be built on a green field, but must leverage existing systems. This calls for a variety of middleware tools.  Continue Reading

• Complex event processing boosts agility to create competitive advantage

  There’s nothing complex about event processing’s simple payoff: When properly integrated with other systems, it adds considerable value—and those benefits are increasingly accessible to companies of all types and all sizes.  Continue Reading

• Decision management adds agility to customer processes

  Automation, mobility and increasingly sophisticated analytics are just a few of the trends driving adoption in key areas across the enterprise.  Continue Reading

• Building smarter, faster systems for real-time benefits

  By providing a right-now picture of the business environment, agile systems can provide organizations with true competitive advantage.  Continue Reading

• The state of service-oriented architecture: SOA trends in 2012

  The SearchSOA.com 2011-2012 reader survey shows a big upswing in use of SOA to support new mobile and cloud computing applications.  Continue Reading

• SOA hits the mainstream: A look at SearchSOA.com Reader Survey 2011-2012

  SOA shows maturity, success and even some signs of popularity in the SearchSOA.com reader survey. And the future is bright. For emerging mobile and cloud computing, SOA could be an essential enterprise ingredient.  Continue Reading

• SOA governance breeds lightweight, flexible enterprise architecture

  SOA and cloud expert David Linthicum weighs in on the connection between strong SOA governance and lightweight, flexible architecture.  Continue Reading

• Is it possible to define SOA infrastructure?

  What do people mean when they say SOA infrastructure? Service-oriented architecture may be a way of thinking, but it is also represented in a range of architectural practices.  Continue Reading

• Can SOA get more flexible to meet complex challenges?

  Addressing concerns of flexibility and complexity requires building and maintaining solid SOA governance and proper enterprise infrastructure.  Continue Reading

• Manes on SOA in 2012: “People get the architecture”

  In 2009, she blogged that "SOA is dead." Today, Anne Thomas Manes says, "people are starting to actually get the architecture."  Continue Reading

• API learning guide

  The expansion of Web services, mobile, cloud and SaaS platforms has altered the realm of APIs. This guide offers the latest in API developments.  Continue Reading

• Will ''mobile business model'' influence the future of SOA?

  Experts suggest that, going forward, the mobile worker and the consumer will be more central to successful IT planning.  Continue Reading