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SOA Survey Under Way

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:26:00 EDT

Forgive my harping on this, but I keep hearing about how powerful social media is for gathering insights from the IT communities and users. Yet I rarely see actual market research conducted via the social media milieu. So now's the time to fully test the process. I'm hoping that you users and specifiers of enterprise software middleware, SOA infrastructure, integration middleware, and enterprise service buses (ESBs) will take 5 minutes and fill out my BriefingsDirect survey. We'll share the results via this blog in a few weeks.

Using Mule as the Foundation for New SOA Infrastructure

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:45:00 EST

Over the course of the past few decades, the consumer media industry has evolved from a slow-moving oligopoly dominated by a handful of vertically integrated networks to a highly fragmented and competitive marketplace of content creation, publication, and distribution players. This disaggregation of the industry value chain, in combination with the proliferation of content sources, channels, and media formats has created a daunting logistical challenge for anyone attempting to deliver content to the consumer in the right format, at the right time.

SOA Innovation Applied

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:15:00 EST

Are you a victim of outdated call center design syndrome? Symptoms include chaotic agent desktops, frustrated agents, miserable first-contact resolution rates, and angry customers calling back again and again. If you recognize these symptoms, then you're most likely a victim. This article will offer a service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based cure for outdated call center syndrome.

A Bright SOA IDEA: The Road Map for Service-Oriented Success

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:30:00 EST

Information always has and always will be the lifeblood of a company. But globalization has profoundly changed how a business collects and exchanges data, and with whom an organization shares that information. In today's sprawling digital enterprise, operations are no longer contained to a single floor, building, or even one campus, country, or continent. Additionally, the outsourcing and offshoring of many basic operations mean the accounts payable office that used to be down the hall may now be in Poland. This complicates transaction processing as more third-parties need to access corporate data stores to support operational functions.

SOA to the Rescue, When Drug Discovery Needs Data Fast!

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:30:00 EST

As the demand for new medicines grows, so does the need for better information to manage and execute the R&D processes. There is huge pressure to make informed decisions, especially during the project's early stages when the risk is high and before downstream costs are added. Pfizer spends billions on research projects annually. At Pfizer Global R&D where the company's drug discovery takes place, research scientists and managers require vast amounts of up-to-the-minute information on lab results, submission status, and project schedules to move new research forward quickly.

SOA Case Study: Leveraging SOA in Business Processes

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:30:00 EST

Covergence is the creator of Eclipse, an award-winning series of next-generation session border control solutions. Recently, the company unveiled the Covergence Policy Manager, a policy enforcement solution for real-time applications. Using Policy Manager, organizations can now build session policy enforcement into applications that include VoIP, video, IM, presence, conferencing, shared workspaces, and other forms of real-time communications.

Solving Real-World Business Problems with SOA: Case Study

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:15:00 EST

The financial services industry is well suited to application solutions based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) due to the heterogeneity across front-, mid-, and back-office systems and different business lines. Many financial services firms, particularly those that have undergone mergers or acquisitions, can benefit from SOA as they are burdened with legacy data silos, redundant applications, overlapping functionality, brittle proprietary systems, and steep integration costs.

Inside IBM: SOA-Enabled Business Transformation

Wed, 09 May 2007 16:30:00 EDT

Like many other enterprises, IBM is transforming itself in response to fierce global competition and partnering, real security threats, the plethora of regulatory requirements, and demands for more flexibility and agility. Service-oriented thinking and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) play an important role in this transformation.

SOA with MDA

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:15:00 EDT

For the past six years I've been engaged in a project to re-engineer a legacy enterprise IT system of a large international bank. The company still had applications with host terminal emulation that were to be replaced with Windows- and Web-based client applications. The host system was completed based on legacy applications that evolved since the 1970s. Any new applications had to interoperate with the existing legacy applications. A strategy to replace difficult-to-maintain legacy applications with new applications was implemented.

BPEL & B2B Synergies Reduce Supplier Enablement Costs

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:00:00 EST

Although organizations use multiple technologies to solve myriad business problems, integrating two or more of these technologies to derive new business benefits presents additional challenges. This is especially true when the collaboration extends beyond an organization's own systems to include those of its business partners.

ChoicePay: Rising above the SOA Testing Challenge

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:00:00 EDT

ChoicePay has embarked on a strategic Web Services-based SOA initiative as part of its ongoing effort to improve customer and partner service. To meet its service improvement objectives, ChoicePay builds reliable and robust Web Services. It continues to enhance its service objectives without compromising overall quality through short, iterative, and demanding Web Services testing cycles.

MedicAlert Embraces SOA To Drive Business Agility

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:15:00 EDT

At MedicAlert we have vividly seen how a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) can enable business agility and elevate the value of the IT organization's work. Since we launched our SOA initiative two years ago, we have laid the foundation for vital new forms of collaboration with partners and accelerated the introduction of new products and services that can strengthen the business.