Enterprise IT's 'Moment of Truth' has arrived, according to Sandy Zylka, a co-founder of NextAxiom and the co-inventor of the company's seven patent-pending innovations. Zylka, who participates in consulting services to NextAxiom customers as a Principal SOA Archi...

What is BPEL? What is XPDL? How are they different? What is the best use for each? What is BPMN, and why should I care? Which of these are primarily designed to help IT at a technical level, and which help an organization at a business level? Amongst the flurry of...

Research and Markets has announced the addition of 'Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) Infrastructure Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2008 to 2014' to their offering. According to the report, IBM is the de-facto industry standard market leader in SOA. ...

SOA Software announced that it has acquired LogicLibrary, a SOA Repository and Governance vendor. This acquisition combines two recognized companies, creating a dominant SOA Governance company with an impressive customer base. SOA Software is positioned by Gartne...

IBM announced details of new identity software designed to help clients securely manage employee, partner and customer IT users and their access to company applications and information. The new release of IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager software further simp...

IBM announced that Alcatel-Lucent has selected IBM Tivoli identity management software to help support its efforts to increase security measures, improve employee efficiency, reduce help desk costs and support compliance initiatives. Alcatel-Lucent is deploying ...

The ever-increasing movement towards implementing complex SOA-based applications has triggered a direct attention of leading industry researchers and practitioners to the subject of layering in such applications, in general, and the relationship between the fiel...

HP has introduced enhanced quality and management software designed to meet new requirements for mainstream deployment of service-oriented architectures (SOA) by businesses. To make sure that services meet all functional and performance objectives and are ready ...

The SOA Consortium announced that three new podcasts on SOA Centers of Excellence are now available. There were two case study presentations on SOA Centers of Excellence, one by Melvin Greer, SOA Chief Architect, Lockheed Martin and another by Richard Reba, Direct...

The new wave of Web applications are built on technologies such as AJAX and Microsoft Silverlight, which enable developers to build better, richer user experiences. These technologies bring a shift in how applications are organized, including a stronger separation...

URIs are the lingua franca of the Web. They are in every Web page and every HTTP request. In a practical sense, they represent the realization of the Web. Without them, the Web would cease to exist. The situation is very different in the world of the RDBMS. Here, ...

As SOA rapidly becomes the standard for enterprise architectures, the need for robust technologies for data access and data integration has become more critical then ever before. Due to the vital role that data plays both in business and systems operations, databa...

The ever-increasing movement towards implementing complex SOA-based applications has triggered a direct attention of leading industry researchers and practitioners to the subject of layering in such applications, in general, and the relationship between the fiel...

Once upon a time data modeling played a central role in the process of developing applications. Thus far in the SOA era, there has been a heavy emphasis on process, and data has all-too-often been lost in the SOA shuffle. In this talk, we present a data model for ...

'As SOA rapidly becomes the standard for enterprise architectures, the need for robust technologies for data access and data integration has become more critical then ever before,' says John Goodson, executive leader of DataDirect Technologies. Goodson will be k...

Once upon a time, data modeling played a central role in the process of developing applications. Thus far in the SOA era, there has been a heavy emphasis on process, and data has all-too-often been lost in the SOA shuffle. In this talk, we present a data model for ...

The workshop is a hands-on session focusing on data access and data services issues, problems and solutions. It's an opportunity for audience members to view and discuss problems with a panel of experts. The goal of the session is to engage the audience using walk...

The new wave of Web applications are built on technologies such as AJAX and Microsoft Silverlight, which enable developers to build better, richer user experiences. These technologies bring a shift in how applications are organized, including a stronger separation...

A panel of experts and executives from organizations that are leading providers and consumers of technology will discuss trends and important technologies for enterprise and Internet computing. The experts will discuss the role of databases and database technology...

URIs are the lingua franca of the web. They are in every web page and every HTTP request. In a practical sense, they represent the realization of the web. Without them, the web would cease to exist. The situation is very different in the world of the RDBMS. Here, ...

TIBCO announced that mobilkom austria group (mag) set a new benchmark for the mobile phone sector, establishing mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) covering Serbia and Macedonia in just six months using an enterprise service bus based on TIBCO software. The...

Patni Computer Systems announced its customizable solution framework for the development or modernization of insurance business applications. Initially, the framework will support Patni's application components for Life New Business. Based on SOA (Service Orie...

HCL Technologies announced Penstock InsureWrite, an SOA-based policy underwriting system that automates the entire underwriting process, allowing insurance carriers to consolidate the multiple administration platforms used across their entire business. The highly ...

Software AG announced that Volvofinans has selected CentraSite as its enterprise platform for service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance and metadata management. CentraSite will serve as the foundation for the new IT infrastructure being implemented by Volvo...

IBM announced two new advances in the insurance industry - a solution for improving operational efficiency and a framework for process acceleration - that are designed to help insurance providers lower costs and increase customer satisfaction by handling core proc...

ParAccel announced it has entered into an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with IBM. Under the terms of the agreement, ParAccel will embed IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture within the ParAccel Analytic Database, providing ParAccel customers with se...

Aras announced the availability of Version 9 of the Aras Innovator suite of model-based service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions for enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Version 9 delivers model-based SOA for PLM and includes single-instance multi...

Skyway Software, announced a SOA developer contest. The SOA design and delivery solutions provider announced the contest with a prize of a $2500 gas card for the winner. The company feels that the basics are very easy. The winner would also get a copy of the Skywa...

Micro Focus announced the availability of SOA Express 8.0. The new version adds support for direct deployment into IBM's Customer Information Control System (CICS), enabling users to accelerate the deployment of Web services by reusing their existing CICS TS mai...

Forum Systems announced the availability of FS Sentry 7.1, the SOA Gateway product. FS Sentry 7.1 enables rapid integration within a SOA without compromising security. FS Sentry 7.1 provides SOA professionals the ability to virtualize and centralize disparate se...

Parasoft announced they will be featuring the next generation of application security solutions at JavaOne. Improving security without impacting productivity, Parasoft's Application Security Solutions establish a continuous process that helps ensure security ver...

EDS announced the signing of a comprehensive agreement with Microsoft around EDS airline reservations, flight operations and service oriented architecture products. With the announcement, EDS will use selected Microsoft tools, software and resources in the moder...

TIBCO announced it is demonstrating how the combination of SCA and the TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Grid provides a highly scalable Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) combination for enterprise developers looking to reap the benefits of both models. Using SCA helps...

VeNotion has been included as a 'Cool Vendor' in the April 2008 'Cool Vendors in emerging technologies, 2008' report by Gartner, authored by Martin Reynolds. According to the report, 'For SOA governance to become more successful, companies will need automated di...

GT Software announced that Lockheed Martin has selected the company's Ivory solution to create z/OS-based Web services, and migrate mainframe data to the company's next generation of applications. A global provider of rapid service oriented architecture (SOA) deve...

Paybox announced the release of the fourth generation of its Mobiliser Platform providing a state-of-the-art Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as well as a Service Development Platform (SDP) for true dynamic real-time integration and rapid application developm...

Layer 7 Technologies announced it has been selected as a 'Cool Vendor' in Gartner's Cool Vendors in SOA Governance, 2008 report. Layer 7 provides flexible and simple-to-use gateways for defining, managing and scalability enforcing policy-based governance policies in SOA.

Locus has been selected by the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners to perform environmental site assessment, soil and groundwater investigation and cleanup, environmental compliance assessment and environmental information management services for The Port of...

Trubiquity (formerly Autoweb) has launched its new software-as-a-service (SaaS) architecture. Trubiquity's new software architecture, named TRUcore, improves communications among global business teams, from an OEM (original equipment manufacturer) level down throu...

RedPrairie announced a new E²e Business Process Platform to orchestrate cross-application business processes. Built on SOA standards and web services technologies, the new platform enables a common point of integration for all RedPrairie and third-party applications.