"All this money is going into ESBs and Web services, and they get a dozen or two integration projects going, but are they getting any business value out of that? I don't see it." -Anne Thomas Manes, ...

The post of the break was one by Joe McKendrick, who says, “SOA is integration. SOA is not integration. Simple as that.” In essence, he looks at some of the confusion around the value that SOA brings ...

Like it or not most mission critical processing still happens on a mainframe today. Mainframes literally run the business world. Unfortunately, most companies with systems older then ten years are ...

Middleware vendor BEA Systems has announced the first three members of its Enterprise Integration Portfolio (EIP), tools aimed at helping users at different stages of their SOA (service-oriented ...

Intel Corporation reports that it has seen a return on investment "in excess of tens of millions of dollars" as a result of its three-year-old SOA effort. Intel gradually moves from custom development ...

With all the attention that service-oriented architecture and Web services are getting, I thought I’d fast forward to a time when every organization has implemented SOA and Web services to some extent ...

IBM wants to make it easier for PHP developers to integrate their apps into a service-oriented architecture (SOA), and it's giving them the tools to do it—free. The soon-to-be-released PHP Integration ...

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Everybody knows that service-oriented architecture is all about integration. Integrating departments, companies, government agencies, vendors, and customers is SOA’s sweet spot. What isn’t as often ...