Is SOA essentially "Software as a Service" contained within the enterprise walls? The analogy makes a great elevator speech, especially if one is hard-pressed to describe the philosophy of SOA to ...

Three issues that rise to the top fast when developing a service-oriented architecture are governance, quality, and management. In this article, part of a Network World Data Center series on SOA, ...

Software AG has built a global customer base over 35 years by being an early mover in a couple of major technology trends. The company introduced one of the first databases, Adabas, in the 1970s, a ...

Need help building your service-oriented architecture? Vendors stand ready with a slew of service options. Adopting a service-oriented architecture promises to transform rigid networks into flexible, ...

In a move that signals the growing importance of creating and enforcing polices for using Web services in a service-oriented architecture, SOA Software Inc. plans to update its SOA products so they ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

SOA planning is committee work, and it often requires that IT architects meet to assess a steady stream of proposals for services to run on the corporate network. “In P&C, we have a high-level project ...

Service-oriented architecture, the business software industry's oft-used buzzwords, could actually be paying off, at least for some companies. IBM on Tuesday reported second-quarter earnings that ...