Service-oriented architecture (SOA) emerged in the early part of this century as an evolution of distributed computing. Before SOA, services were understood as the end result of the application ...

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Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an approach for abstracting enterprise software capabilities as reusable services in order to support more flexible business processes and ideally, more ...

As IT organizations (ITOs) globally span their value chains across governments and cultures, service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides valuable technical and business principles for success. We ...

Enter service-oriented architecture (SOA), with its promise of speeding up project delivery, increasing IT agility and scalability and reduce integration costs.

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is built around a collection of loosely coupled services that communicate among each other. The reusable services have well-defined, platform-independent interfaces ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a set of principles for designing extensible, federated, interoperable services. SOA principles can (and should) be applied not only to the services that ...

Your company's services strategy should include service-oriented architecture, Web services and software asset reuse -- all supporting your business model, says columnist Eric A. Marks.

The benefits of SOA are well documented, but the challenges associated with an enterprise wide SOA deployment are not. While the distributed nature of a SOA encourages reuse and provides a high level ...

Stacey Higginbotham, a commentator for GigaOm, remarked that a recent HP tutorial on cloud computing was “depressingly similar to the idea of service-oriented architecture,” noting that “HP ...