A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is supposed to bring flexibility to IT resources and lower costs by letting IT personnel reuse software components instead of coding from scratch. However, some ...

I appreciated the comment-swarm around last week's piece on consensus. But I am afraid many missed the key word in the headline. The word is mysterious. The way in which consensus works is opaque, ...

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With service-oriented architectures (SOA) on the rise, IT groups are increasingly discovering that they need to add SOA governance into the mix as a means of controlling what services are deployed and ...

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This guest post comes courtesy of Jason Bloomberg, managing partner atZapThink. Take the BriefingsDirect middleware/ESB survey now. On the other hand, there are plenty of enterprise architects who do ...

The term service-oriented architecture (SOA) hadn’t gained currency in 2002 when TrueCredit, a subsidiary of the TransUnion credit verification agency, began deployment of an enterprisewide portal.

I have seen many companies fall into two different traps when attempting to implement SOA governance. The first trap is not having a robust enough governance model. The second trap is having so much ...